AAS 235th Meeting

SIOSLab was well represented last month at the 235th AAS Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Corey Spohn presented his poster on “Dynamically Scheduling Direct Imaging Missions” and Dean Keithly Presented his talk on “Exoplanet classification probabilities from initial detections in a direct imaging mission.” Two members also presented dissertation talks: Jacob Shapiro presented his talk on “Identifying Exoplanets with CSP Filtering and a Forward Model Matched Filter” and Gabriel Soto presented his talk on “Fuel Cost Heuristics for Starshade Retargeting Slew Maneuvers.”

GPI 2.0 Is a Go!

We are very happy to announce that we have secured funding from the NSF and HSF for an upgrade of the Gemini Planet Imager.  Once commissioned at Gemini North in Hawaii in 2022, GPI 2.0 will be even more sensitive than the original GPI, and capable of imaging planets around even more distant and fainter stars. For more information, see our Research page, as well as this article in the Cornell Chronicle.

AAS 233rd Meeting

Our lab attended the 233rd AAS Meeting in drizzly Seattle, Washington in early January. Dean Keithly presented his poster titled “Blind Search Single-Visit Exoplanet Direct Imaging Yield for Space Based Telescopes.” Jacob Shapiro presented his poster “Optical Design of a Large Segmented Space Telescope.” Dmitry Savransky presented a talk titled “Simulating Known Exoplanet Orbits for WFIRST CGI Imaging.” Gabriel Soto presented a poster titled “Navigation and Orbit Phasing of Modular Spacecraft for Segmented Telescope Assembly about Sun-Earth L2.”