Past mass gainers in massive binary systems are identifiable by their CNO surface abundance pattern, and an analytic model can reconstruct their accretion history from observed abundances.
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Chemical fingerprints of binary mass transfer in massive stars
Past mass gainers in massive binary systems are identifiable by their CNO surface abundance pattern, and an analytic model can reconstruct their accretion history from observed abundances.