Fig. 1
We present ten cases of eccentricity evolution, starting with different values of e from e = 0.1 (first line from the bottom) to e = 0.99 (first line from the top). Initial semi-major axis is chosen such that a binary will merge within time Tmerg = 10 Gyr in each case.
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