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We study the properties of hybrid stars containing a color superconducting quark matter phase in their
cores, which is described by the chirally symmetric formulation of the confining relativistic density
functional approach. It is shown that, depending on the dimensionless vector and diquark couplings of
quark matter, the characteristics of the deconfinement phase transition are varied, allowing us to study the
relation between those characteristics and mass-radius relations of hybrid stars. Moreover, we show that the
quark matter equation of state (EoS) can be nicely fitted by the Alford-Braby-Paris-Reddy model that gives
a simple functional dependence between the most important parameters of the EoS and microscopic
parameters of the initial Lagrangian. Based on it, we analyze the special points of the mass-radius diagram
in which several mass-radius curves intersect. Using the found empirical relation between the mass of the
special point, the maximum mass of the mass-radius curve, and the onset mass of quark deconfinement,
we constrain the range of values of the vector and diquark couplings of the quark matter model. With this
constraint, we construct a family of mass-radius curves, which allow us to describe the black widow pulsar
PSR J0952-0607 with a mass of 2.35 +/- 0.17M⊙ as a hybrid star with a color superconducting quark
matter core.