Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the financial support from the Polish National Science Center through the Grant Sonata-Bis No DEC-2012/05/E/ST9/03914. We also thank the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling of the Warsaw University for the access to their supercomputing resources, under the grant GB 70-4. Finally, AJ would like to thank the Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics 2017, and the Center for Transient Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, for great hospitality and inspiring environment.

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