Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging and the Gemini Planet Imager

Details Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging and the Gemini Planet Imager Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging and the Gemini Planet Imager

Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ess.....2.0701g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #7.01

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Optics

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Large astronomical telescopes coupled with new adaptive optics technologies enable high contrast imaging. Current systems approach a dynamic range of nearly a million to one on scales near the diffraction limit. In the coming decade a new generation of instruments will improve contrast by another one to two orders of magnitude and provide images of extra-solar planetary systems. The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is one of these instruments, which will see first light in 2012. Recently the Gemini Observatory has approved an 890 hour campaign to directly detect planets and image debris disks using GPI.

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