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Rahul Patel

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  49
Citations -  2406

Rahul Patel is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 48 publications receiving 2135 citations. Previous affiliations of Rahul Patel include Florida International University & Stony Brook University.

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Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

Bruce Macintosh, +94 more
- 02 Oct 2015 - 
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.
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Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

Bruce Macintosh, +94 more
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.
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Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1 to 5 μm: A Partly Cloudy Exoplanet

Abhijith Rajan, +65 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to detect exoplanets using the ESI program for GPI related to NASA's Exoplanets Research Program (XRP) and NExSS (NExSS).