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
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.
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
GPI First Light Results Announced
The first light results from the November and December runs of the Gemini Planet Imager were announced at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington D.C. The community and public response has been incredible – see the