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                    Caption: Figure 4.
Mass transfer rate and accretor radius as computed by MESA and STARS for an ﹩8\;{{\rm{M}}}_{\odot }+6.5\;{{\rm{M}}}_{\odot }﹩ binary with an initial orbital period of 3 days. All internal mixing processes (including convective mixing) are turned off in the calculations.
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