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Detection and Astrometry of the Ba–Bb Subsystem in α Piscium: First Dual-field Interferometry at the CHARA Array

  • Authors: Narsireddy Anugu, Robert Klement, John D. Monnier, Douglas R. Gies, Gail H. Schaefer, Stefan Kraus, Sebastián Carrazco-Gaxiola, Akshat S. Chaturvedi, Mayra Gutierrez, Becky Flores, Jeremy Jones, Colin Kane, Rainer Köhler, Karolina Kubiak, Olli W. Majoinen, Nicholas J. Scott, Kayvon Sharifi

Narsireddy Anugu et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Orbit of the α Piscium A–B wide binary. Gray curves show 200 posterior samples from our MCMC fit to the complete WDS astrometric record (1779–2024). Red points are the historical measurements compiled in ORB6, and the two black open circles mark the new dual-field astrometric detections obtained with CHARA in 2025. North is up, and east is to the left. The CHARA measurements lie exactly along the predicted orbital path at ρ ≃ 1﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩85 and PA ≃ 256﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x000b0}}﹩6, demonstrating that the dual-field mode delivers submilliarcsecond relative astrometry at arcsecond-level separations. Including the CHARA points does not materially change the orbital solution; all elements remain consistent with the published ORB6 orbit at the ​​​​​​≲1% level.

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