We have used Aperture Masking Interferometry and Adaptive Optics (AO) at the Palomar 200'' to obtain precise mass measurements of the binary M dwarf GJ 623. AO observations spread over 3 years combined with a decade of radial velocity measurements constrain all orbital parameters of the GJ 623 binary system accurately enough to critically challenge the models. The dynamical masses measured are m1=0.371±0.015M\sun (4%) and m2=0.115±0.0023M\sun (2%) for the primary and the secondary respectively. Models are not consistent with color and mass, requiring very low metallicities.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612138,
title = {Precision Masses of the low-mass binary system GJ 623},
author = {Frantz Martinache and James P. Lloyd and Michael J. Ireland and Ryan S. Yamada and Peter G. Tuthill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612138},
year = {2011}
}