Gemini Planet Imager | Characterizing 200 new exoplanets
| Simulation of the final image produced by GPI. A bright star is observed, but the light is greatly diminished due to the adaptive optics system and coronagraph. A faint point of light (circled) simulates the existence of a planet near the star. |
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GPI Members (alphabetical by institution) |
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American Museum of Natural History (AMNH): AMNH is leading the design and testing of GPI’s apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph.
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA): Canada’s Herzberg Institute is responsible for the opto-mechanical structure (OMSS) of GPI and the top-level computer (TLC) that connects the subsystems to each other and the observatory. HIA is also collaborating on control algorithms for the AO system.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): JPL is responsible for the precision infrared wavefront-calibration system.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL): LLNL is the lead instution for GPI, responsible for the overall design and project management, and the real-time adaptive optics system.
University of California, Berkeley (UCB): Professor James Graham at UC Berkeley leads the GPI Science Team:
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): The Infrared Instrumentation Laboratory is responsible for the construction of the GPI science instrument, a near-IR integral field spectrograph.
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC): GPI integration and testing will take place in 2010 at the UC Santa Cruz Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. UCSC hosts the Center for Adaptive Optics:
University de Montreal: University de Montreal is providing the data analysis pipeline to extract planetary signals from GPI data, and collaborating with UCLA on the design of the spectrograph.
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