Kimberly Ward-Duong

TL;DR: Using the Gemini Planet Imager, a Jupiter-like planet is discovered orbiting the ~20-million-year-old star 51 Eridani at a projected separation of 13 astronomical units and has a methane signature and is probably the smallest exoplanet that has been directly imaged.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Gemini Planet Imager was used to detect a planet orbiting the star 51 Eridani at a projected separation of 13 astronomical units, with a spectrum with strong methane and water vapor absorption.

TL;DR: Nielsen et al. as discussed by the authors presented a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPEES) to infer the underlying distributions of substellar companions with respect to their mass, semimajor axis, and host stellar mass.

TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) includes six detected planets and three brown dwarfs; from these detections and their contrast curves, infer the underlying distributions of substellar companions with respect to their mass, semi-major axis, and host stellar mass.

TL;DR: This paper, the first of a series, provides a broad overview of GPI data reduction, summarizes key steps, and presents the overall software framework and implementation.