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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
Using theoretical models of WR binary evolution, and adopting bolometric corrections for the O-type companions, the B.C. of a sample of WN stars are derived using the luminosity difference and the mass ratio. From the present characteristics of observed WN binaries the initial parameters are estimated assuming conservative case B of mass transfer and stellar wind as mass modifying processes. The influence of nonconservative interaction is discussed.