Fig. C.1.

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MT rate, radius, mass-ratio and period evolution of a low-mass contact binary model with and without ET. The right hand panels zoom in on the contact evolution, where thermal oscillations are present in the ET model. The no-ET model instead within 0.3 Gyr after first contact. The black line in the third right-hand panel shows the averaged mass ratio of the ET model, defined in Eq. (C.2).
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