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mass transfer
The process in which one evolved member of a close binary system passes gaseous material to its companion star. The donor star may have grown to fill its Roche lobe (in which case the system is a semidetached binary) or may be the source of a strong stellar wind. The recipient star receives the matter either directly or via an accretion disk.
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