NASA has recently announced the selection of the Science Investigation Teams (SITs) for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) – the next major NASA mission with a planned launch in 2024. SIOSlab will be participating in the science investigation
JATIS Paper Published
Our new paper on WFIRST-AFTA mission simulation has been published in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. The article is available with open access here.
University of Rochester Colloquium
I had the pleasure of presenting a talk at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Many thanks to my hosts and audience. My slides can be found here (animations only work in Adobe PDF viewers).
2015 NAE FOE Presentation
I presented a talk at this year’s National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium on Starlight Suppression (note that there are embedded videos in the talk that will only play in Adobe PDF viewers).
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
Speakers and Participants Announced for NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
I will be speaking at this year’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. See full press release here.
Spirit of Lyot 2015
We present the latest analysis of the ongoing GPIES survey at the Spirit of Lyot conference in Montreal. See the poster here.
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
GPI Data Reduction Pipeline v1.0 Released
The GPI Data Reduction team has just released version 1.0 of the the Gemini Planet Imager Data Pipeline, which allows transformation of raw data from GPI into calibrated spectral and polarimetric data cubes and provides a variety of routines for