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GPI 1.0

Gemini SouthNear-IR
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GPI is an extreme adaptive-optics imaging polarimeter/integral-field spectrometer, which will provide diffraction-limited data between 0.9 and 2.4 microns. The system will provide contrast ratios of 106 on companions at separations of 0.2-1" in a 1-2 hour observation. The science instrument will provide spectroscopy or dual-beam polarimetry of any object in the field of view. Bright natural guide stars (Imag<9) are required for optimal performance of the GPI adaptive optics system. GPI is capable of detecting point sources down to Hmag = 20, with ≥ 5-sigma, in 1 hour (absent photon noise from a bright companion).

Unavailable For Proposals at Gemini South
For more details, see the schedules and the CfPs.

Decommissioned in 2020.

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Capability Summary

  • Extreme adaptive-optics (AO) 
  • Contrast ratios of 106 (at separations of 0.2–1", in 1-hour)
  • Total wavelength range = 0.9−2.4 µm

Plane options

  • Coronagraphy (APLC)
  • Direct (no APLC)
  • Non Redundant Mask (NRM)

Modes

  • Spectroscopy (Read more)
    • IFU (R ≈ 40)
    • 2.4" square field of view
    • 0.014" per lenslet spatial sampling
    • YJHK spectral ranges (K band is split)
  • Polarimetry (Read more)
    • Dual channel polarimeter (full field) 
    • bands (Y, J, H, K1 or K2).

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GPI has been built by a consortium of U.S. and Canadian institutions, funded by the Gemini Observatory, which is an international partnership comprising the U.S.A., U.K., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil & Chile. The GPIES campaign is partially funded by NSF, NASA, the University of California and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding at the Lawrence LIvermore National Laboratory.

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September 24, 2020

GPI major updates

March 19, 2020

GPI warm up

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