Figure 8: An example of the boundary between the mass-shedding limit and the ISCO [210]. The
selected model is the case of . The solid curve denotes the mass-shedding limit, and
the long-dashed one the ISCO for each mass ratio as a function of the orbital angular velocity in
polytropic units. The dotted curve denotes the mass-shedding limit for unstable quasi-equilibrium
sequences.
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