PLANET IMAGER

After more than 5 years of development and one year of integration at UCSC LAO in 2013, the instrument was shipped to Chile in August 2013. The first light of the instrument was conducted in November 2013 and Science Operations started in 2014. From November 2014 to January 2019, our team led the GPI Exoplanet Survey to image and characterize young, Jupiter-like exoplanets. With the upgrades that give way to GPI 2.0, new and exciting exoplanets are bound to be unveiled by our survey.