Job title:
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy
Department:
Astronomy Department
Research interests:
Specialty Areas: Adaptive optics,Infrared instrumentation,Large telescopes.
Projects: The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey
Lead: Paul Kalas, James Graham
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a new science instrument that exploits the latest generation of adaptive optics technology, coronagraphy and detectors. We have successfully commissioned GPI at the Gemini South telescope in Chile and in 2014 we started a three year science program called GPIES (GPI Exoplanet Survey) that will survey 600 stars for the presence of young giant planets.
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