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Roche lobe overflow: a standalone construct

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mass transfer in a close binary when one star expands beyond its Roche lobe and gas flows through the inner Lagrange point to its companion.

In astrophysics, Roche lobe overflow refers to mass transfer in a close binary when one star expands beyond its Roche lobe and gas flows through the inner Lagrange point to its companion. This meaning comes from Paczynski (1971) in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[1]

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References

Paczynski, B. (1971). Evolutionary Processes in Close Binary Systems. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9(1), 183-208. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.aa.09.090171.001151

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