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Caption: Figure 1.
The top four panels show 100 random draws from the orbital posterior for our SNR = 10 case, jointly fitting astrometry and photometry. The bottom six panels show the posterior orbital constraints with and without photometric measurements for three different SNRs. The true values for the eccentricity and inclination are bolded and outlined in blue to show the improvements in constraint with an increasing SNR value. Takeaway: including photometry generally improves eccentricity and inclination constraints, and the improvement is more pronounced for higher values of SNR.
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