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Caption: Figure 5.
Same as Figure 2, but for a mass ratio of q2 = 0.6. Compared to the q2 = 0.9 case, the overall distribution of mass transfer types remains similar, with Case C transfer still confined to M1 ≲ 20 M⊙. These results indicate that the overall landscape of mass transfer is relatively insensitive to the mass ratio. The main difference is that a smaller q2 reduces the overall fraction of interacting binaries while promoting unstable mass transfer and increasing the fraction of CEE.
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