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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
We have analyzed Ciatti et al's (1980) UBV lightcurves of the massive eclipsing binary RY Set. The BO primary, being considerably over-luminous and oversized for its mass, is certainly appreciably evolved. That this star is nearly filling its Robe lobe strongly supports the idea that it is undergoing a phase of mass transfer (case B), through Robe lobe overflow, towards its more massive secondary companion. In view of its properties, RY Set, which represents an uncommon evolutionary stage, is lively to evolve into a Wolf-Rayet binary systems.