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Cartoon illustrating the possible occurrence of ECSN after the formation of a He star in the scenarios involved for the formation of high- (left) and low- (right) mass X-ray binaries. This cartoon has been adapted from Tauris & van den Heuvel (2006). The numbers indicate the masses of the stellar components.

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