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2000AJ....120.1106B - Astron. J., 120, 1106-1112 (2000/August-0)

Interferometric astrometry of the low-mass binary Gl 791.2 (= HU Del) using Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensor 3: parallax and component masses.

BENEDICT G.F., McARTHUR B.E., FRANZ O.G., WASSERMAN L.H. and HENRY T.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

With fourteen epochs of fringe-tracking data spanning 1.7 yr from Fine Guidance Sensor 3 we have obtained a parallax (πabs=113.1±0.3 mas) and perturbation orbit for Gl 791.2A. Contemporaneous fringe-scanning observations yield only three clear detections of the secondary on both interferometer axes. They provide a mean component magnitude difference, ΔV=3.27±0.10. The period (P=1.4731 yr), from the perturbation orbit, and the semimajor axis (a=0.963±0.007 AU), from the measured component separations with our parallax, provide a total system mass MA+MB=0.412±0.009 M☉. Component masses are MA=0.286±0.006 M☉ and MB=0.126±0.003 M☉. Gl 791.2A and Gl 791.2B are placed in a sparsely populated region of the lower main-sequence mass-luminosity relation where they help define the relation because the masses have been determined to high accuracy, with errors of only 2%.

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Journal keyword(s): Astrometry - Stars: Binaries: General - Stars: Distances - Stars: Individual: Name: Gliese 791.2 - Stars: Late-Type - Stars: Low-Mass, Brown Dwarfs

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