Fig. 22.
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Swallowing of a low-mass star in a triple system: A low-mass star (green) initially moves in the gravitational field of a wide high-mass binary with two slow rotators (red). When the orbit of the low-mass star is disturbed, it spirals on to one of the high-mass components. The resulting post-merger star has an increased mass and spin (blue).
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