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Wind Roche-lobe overflow

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Wind Roche-lobe overflow occurs when a slow dense wind nearly fills the donor's Roche lobe and is gravitationally focused through the inner Lagrange region. It can transfer a much larger fraction of the outflow than a uniform fast-wind Bondi--Hoyle estimate.

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