Statistics of rpTDE candidates in T_obt–M_• space (see Table 1). The blue dashed line is where ﹩{M}_{\bullet }={M}_{\bullet ,{\rm{\max }}}({T}_{{\rm{obt}}})﹩ [Equation (17)], beyond which no rpTDE can happen in the loss-cone channel. In the Hills channel, near-contact binaries with a_b ≈ 2.5R_⋆ can evade this limit [Equation (34)], as shown by the orange shadowed region. The white region is contributed by detached binaries with a_b > 2.5R_⋆.