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Fig. 1

Schematic picture of the WRLOF mechanism: Rd, the wind acceleration radius, lies close to RL,1, the Roche-lobe radius. Inside the wind acceleration zone (shaded area) the wind is slow and can be efficiently accreted to the secondary through the first Lagrangian point L1 (sizes are not in scale).
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