With Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry and previously published radial velocity measures we explore the exoplanetary system HD 202206. Our modeling results in a parallax, πabs=21.96±0.12 milliseconds of arc, a mass for HD 202206 B of MB=0.089−0.006+0.007 Msun, and a mass for HD 202206 c of Mc=17.9−1.8+2.9 MJup. HD 202206 is a nearly face-on G+M binary orbited by a brown dwarf. The system architecture we determine supports past assertions that stability requires a 5:1 mean motion resonance (we find a period ratio, Pc/PB=4.92±0.04) and coplanarity (we find a mutual inclination, Phi = 6 \arcdeg \pm 2 \arcdeg).
@article{arxiv.1705.00659,
title = {HD 202206 : A Circumbinary Brown Dwarf System},
author = {G. Fritz Benedict and Thomas E. Harrison},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00659},
year = {2017}
}
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Accepted by The Astronomical Journal, April 12, 2017. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1003.0421. Revised to include Gaia acknowledgement