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

AAS 225

We attended the 225th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, WA.  Amongst lots of exciting new results and interesting presentations, there was a GPI press release about our first year on sky and the beginning of the campaign, as well as

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

Hello world!

The Space Imaging and Optical Systems lab has been established as part of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.  Please check back soon for news and updates on our work.