Top panel: accretion efficiency, β = |Ṁ₂/Ṁ₁ | versus time for the distorted models, where R_ℒ1 is determined from Eqs. (3) and (4), with f = 1.00 (black, solid curve) and f = 1.02 (red, dotted curve). Bottom panel: mass of ejected material, M_ej (in units of 10^-8M_⊙), as a function of time.