Imagine that the two stars of a visual binary are observed to have maximum separation of 3.0” arc-seconds and trigonometric parallax of 0.10” arc-seconds. Both stars orbit a common center of mass and complete it in 30 years. The companion is observed to be five times farther from the center of mass than the primary. Determine the mass of the primary and companion star.

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