A 2011 study of LZ Cephei concluded that the existing data are best explained if the system is a semi-detached binary with either the primary or secondary star nearly filling its Roche lobe. The secondary star, now less massive than the primary, was originally the more massive star, and matter has been transferred from the secondary to the primary.[4]
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