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Precise Masses for Wolf 1062 AB from Hubble Space Telescope Interferometric Astrometry and McDonald Observatory Radial Velocities

arXiv:astro-ph/0012045 · doi:10.1086/319399

Abstract

We present an analysis of astrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on {\it HST}, and of radial velocity data from two ground-based campaigns. We model the astrometric and radial velocity measurements simultaneously to obtain parallax, proper motion and component masses for Wolf 1062 = Gl 748 AB (M3.5V). To derive the mass fraction, we relate FGS 3 fringe scanning observations of the science target to a reference frame provided by fringe tracking observations of a surrounding star field. We obtain an absolute parallax milliseconds of arc, yielding ${\cal M}_A = 0.379 \pm 0.005{\cal M}_{\sun}$ and ${\cal M}_B= 0.192 \pm 0.003 {\cal M}_{\sun}$, high quality component masses with errors of only 1.5%.

13 pages, 7 figures. To appear in AJ March 2001

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