Fig. 1

Evolutionary tracks of both stars in a MOB in the HR diagram. The initial masses are 79 M⊙ and 64 M⊙ and the initial orbital period is 1.1 d. Both stars evolve towards nearly equal masses, such that their evolutionary tracks after the overcontact phase become almost identical.
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