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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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