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orbital period?<br />

• estimate the period assuming C1<br />

overflows its Roche lobe<br />

• Roche lobe size Rcr = a * f(q)<br />

• q = Msec/Mprimary<br />

• Kopal tabulation (1959)<br />

• Paczynski approximation (1971)<br />

• Eggleton approximation (1983)<br />

• equating Rsec = Rcr ...<br />

• shorter P for larger q<br />

• ρ=110/P 2 for q < 0.3<br />

• constraints<br />

• P=56 hr?<br />

• P M

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