Presenting 51 Eri b

The GPIES team is proud to announce our first new exoplanet discovery:  51 Eri b.  We’ve gotten some amazing press coverage, including a Cornell Chronicle article on highlighting the Cornell team’s contributions.  The discovery appears in the current issue of

GPIES Begins

November 7th-12th was the first observing run of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES).  This is an 890 hour campaign to discover and directly image new, young, giant planets around nearby stars using the GPI instrument.  This run also