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Caption: Figure 3.
Detailed evolution of CO WD+RG binaries as a function of time using the MESA code. The left panels show the case of a nonmagnetic WD and the right panels the case of a magnetized WD (with B = 2.5 × 107 G). All other initial parameters are the same: the initial masses of the WDs and donor stars are 1.2 M ⊙ and 0.8 M ⊙, respectively, with an initial orbital period of 10 days. The evolution of mass transfer, WD/donor mass, orbital period, and the radius of the donors are shown. Wind mass loss is very low (<5 × 10−13 M ⊙/yr) and is not shown for clarity. RLOF M_dot and Polar M_dot in the figures are ﹩{\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{RL}}﹩ and ﹩{\dot{M}}_{{\rm{p}}}﹩ in the text, respectively.
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