Fig. 4
Age at which the two stars in tight binary systems collide as a function of their initial orbital separations. This takes place because their decay due to the removal of angular momentum from the binary system by stellar winds. The four cases shown differ only in the initial rotation rates of the two stars, as indicated in the legend. The points show the results from individual roational evolution models.
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