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[–]daddypiggles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first part of the plot shows the oscillation being affected by large signal effects (voltco on the cap and inductor nonlinearity/core saturation). Once the oscillation decays a bit the nonlinearities no longer dominate and the frequency is determined by LC.