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astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen

Nathalie K. Jones, Jason J. Wang, Eric L. Nielsen +51

We present confirmation of HD 143811 AB b, a substellar companion to spectroscopic binary HD 143811 AB through direct imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and Keck NIRC2. HD…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterization of the Host Binary of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 143811 AB b

Anne E. Peck, William Roberson, Eric L. Nielsen +50

HD~143811~AB is the host star to the directly imaged planet HD~143811~AB~b, which was recently discovered using data from the Gemini Planet Imager and Keck NIRC2. A member of the S…

astro-ph.EP2023

Testing the Interaction Between a Substellar Companion and a Debris Disk in the HR 2562 System

Stella Yimiao Zhang, Gaspard Duchêne, Robert J. De Rosa +51

The HR 2562 system is a rare case where a brown dwarf companion resides in a cleared inner hole of a debris disk, offering invaluable opportunities to study the dynamical interacti…

astro-ph.EP2022

GPI 2.0: Characterizing Self-Luminous Exoplanets Through Low-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy

Arlene Aleman, Bruce Macintosh, Mary Anne Limbach +4

Direct imaging characterization of extrasolar planets is often done at low spectral resolution. We model the spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager upgrade (GPI 2.0) and assess…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Sensitivity of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument to Exozodiacal Dust

Ewan S Douglas, John Debes, Bertrand Mennesson +7

Exozodiacal dust, warm debris from comets and asteroids in and near the habitable zone of stellar systems, reveals the physical processes that shape planetary systems. Scattered li…

astro-ph.EP2021

Minimal Differential Lateral Acceleration Configurations for Starshade Stationkeeping in Exoplanet Direct Imaging

Jackson Kulik, Gabriel J. Soto, Dmitry Savransky

Exoplanet imaging missions utilizing an external occulter (starshade) for starlight suppression require precise alignment between the telescope and starshade, necessitating mainten…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 7 cited

A review of simulation and performance modeling for the Roman coronagraph instrument

Ewan S. Douglas, Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ruslan Belikov +10

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) will be capable of characterizing exoplanets in reflected light and will demonstrate space technologies essential…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 26 cited

Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B

K. Ward-Duong, J. Patience, K. Follette +55

We present new near-infrared Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) spectroscopy of HD 206893 B, a substellar companion orbiting within the debris disk of its F5V star. The , , , and…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 31 cited

Multiband Polarimetric Imaging of HR 4796A with the Gemini Planet Imager

Pauline Arriaga, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Gaspard Duchêne +49

HR4796A hosts a well-studied debris disk with a long history due to its high fractional luminosity and favorable inclination lending itself well to both unresolved and resolved obs…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 1 cited

Debris Disk Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey's Polarimetric Imaging Campaign

Thomas M. Esposito, Paul Kalas, Michael P. Fitzgerald +62

We report the results of a -year direct imaging survey of 104 stars to resolve and characterize circumstellar debris disks in scattered light as part of the Gemini Planet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present new observations of the planet beta Pictoris b from 2018 with GPI, the first GPI observations following conjunction. Based on these new measurements, we perform a joint…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 20 cited

First Resolved Scattered-Light Images of Four Debris Disks in Scorpius-Centaurus with the Gemini Planet Imager

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Thomas M. Esposito +57

We present the first spatially resolved scattered-light images of four debris disks around members of the Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen) OB Association with high-contrast imaging and…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

An updated visual orbit of the directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b and prospects for a dynamical mass measurement with Gaia

Robert J. De Rosa, Eric L. Nielsen, Jason J. Wang +52

We present a revision to the visual orbit of the young, directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b using four years of observations with the Gemini Planet Imager. The relative astromet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 46 cited

An Exo-Kuiper Belt and An Extended Halo around HD 191089 in Scattered Light

Bin Ren, Élodie Choquet, Marshall D. Perrin +70

We have obtained Hubble Space Telescope STIS and NICMOS, and Gemini/GPI scattered light images of the HD 191089 debris disk. We identify two spatial components: a ring resembling K…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 476 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Bruce Macintosh +62

We present a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES). This subsample includes six detected planets and three brown…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 18 cited

Planet occurrence rate density models including stellar effective temperature

Daniel Garrett, Dmitry Savransky, Rus Belikov

We present planet occurrence rate density models fit to Kepler data as a function of semi-major axis, planetary radius, and stellar effective temperature. We find that occurrence r…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 141 cited

Dynamical Constraints on the HR 8799 Planets with GPI

Jason J. Wang, James R. Graham, Rebekah Dawson +52

The HR 8799 system uniquely harbors four young super-Jupiters whose orbits can provide insights into the system's dynamical history and constrain the masses of the planets themselv…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 36 cited

Direct Imaging of the HD 35841 Debris Disk: A Polarized Dust Ring from Gemini Planet Imager and an Outer Halo from HST/STIS

Thomas M. Esposito, Gaspard Duchêne, Paul Kalas +55

We present new high resolution imaging of a light-scattering dust ring and halo around the young star HD 35841. Using spectroscopic and polarimetric data from the Gemini Planet Ima…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 66 cited

GPI spectra of HR 8799 c, d, and e from 1.5 to 2.4m with KLIP Forward Modeling

Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Laurent Pueyo, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +51

We explore KLIP forward modeling spectral extraction on Gemini Planet Imager coronagraphic data of HR 8799, using PyKLIP and show algorithm stability with varying KLIP parameters.…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 119 cited

Improving and Assessing Planet Sensitivity of the GPI Exoplanet Survey with a Forward Model Matched Filter

Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Bruce Macintosh, Jason J. Wang +49

We present a new matched filter algorithm for direct detection of point sources in the immediate vicinity of bright stars. The stellar Point Spread Function (PSF) is first subtract…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 130 cited

Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1-5 m: a partly-cloudy exoplanet

Abhijith Rajan, Julien Rameau, Robert J. De Rosa +58

We present spectro-photometry spanning 1-5 m of 51 Eridani b, a 2-10 M planet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey. In this study, we present new…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 40 cited

Evidence that the Directly-Imaged Planet HD 131399 Ab is a Background Star

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Julien Rameau +55

We present evidence that the recently discovered, directly-imaged planet HD 131399 Ab is a background star with non-zero proper motion. From new JHK1L' photometry and spectroscopy…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 83 cited

An Optical/near-infrared investigation of HD 100546 b with the Gemini Planet Imager and MagAO

Julien Rameau, Katherine B. Follette, Laurent Pueyo +52

We present H band spectroscopic and Halpha photometric observations of HD 100546 obtained with GPI and MagAO. We detect H band emission at the location of the protoplanet HD 100546…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 104 cited

Complex Spiral Structure in the HD 100546 Transitional Disk as Revealed by GPI and MagAO

Katherine B. Follette, Julien Rameau, Ruobing Dong +53

We present optical and near-infrared high contrast images of the transitional disk HD 100546 taken with the Magellan Adaptive Optics system (MagAO) and the Gemini Planet Imager (GP…