M. Grudzińska

On the formation and evolution of the first Be star in a black hole binary MWC 656

MG and KB acknowledge support from Polish Science Foundation ‘Master2013’ Subsidy. MG acknowledges support by Polish NCN grant Preludium (2012/07/N/ST9/04184). The work of KB was supported by the NCN grant Sonata Bis 2 (DEC-2012/07/E/ST9/01360), the National Science Foundation under grant no. PHYS-1066293 and the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics. JC acknowledges support by DGI of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte under grants AYA2010-18080, AYA2013-42627 and SEV-2011-0187. SdM acknowledges support for early stages of this study by NASA through an Einstein Fellowship grant, PF3-140105 and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Reintegration Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, project id 661502). The work of IN and AH is partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) under grant AYA2012-39364-C02-01/02, and the European Union. MR acknowledges support by the Spanish MINECO under grant FPA2013-48381-C6-6-P. IR acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) through grant ESP2013-48391-C4-1-R. JMP acknowledges support by the Spanish MINECO under grant AYA2013-47447-C3-1-P and financial support from ICREA Academia. MB acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under award HRD-1242090 and the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics.