A semidetached binary has one component filling its Roche lobe while the other remains inside its own lobe. Algol binaries and most ordinary cataclysmic variables are examples.
RT Lac is a named interacting binary used in studies of binary star evolution. Conservative-progenitor tests and nonconservative mass transfer provide ways to interpret a stripped, mass-losing component.
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