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Orbital Solution and Dynamical Masses for the Nearby Binary System Gls 67 AB

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2022-06-29 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

We report spectroscopic observations of the nearby, 19.5 yr binary system Gls 67 AB spanning more than 35 yr. We carry out a global orbital solution combining our radial velocity measurements with others from the literature going back more than a century, and with all other available astrometric observations. The latter include measurements of the relative position as well as the Hipparcos intermediate data and photographic observations tracing the motion of the photocentre. We derive masses for the primary and the M dwarf secondary of 0.95±0.110.95 \pm 0.11 and 0.254±0.019 M0.254 \pm 0.019~M_{\odot}, respectively, as well as a more accurate trigonometric parallax of 79.08±0.6379.08 \pm 0.63 mas that accounts for the orbital motion. We provide evidence suggesting that the much smaller parallax from Gaia DR3 is biased. The precision in the masses remains limited mainly by the still few measurements of the relative position.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10627,
  title  = {Orbital Solution and Dynamical Masses for the Nearby Binary System Gls 67 AB},
  author = {Guillermo Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10627},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages including figures and tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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