We present an analysis of astrometric data from Fine Guidance Sensor 3 (FGS 3), a white-light interferometer on 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; M3.5 V). 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 (π abs = 98.0 ± 0.4 mas) yielding M A = 0.379 ± 0.005 M ⊙ and M B = 0.192 ± 0.003 M ⊙ , high-quality component masses with errors of only 1.5%.
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