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Jeffrey Chilcote was part of the team that built the integral-field spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). GPI is an extreme adaptive-optics, imaging polarimeter/integral-field spectrograph designed to directly image exoplanets—planets around other stars. GPI was commissioned in early 2014.
He is part of the team monitoring beta Pic b, the first directly observed exoplanet. He made some of the first observations of beta Pic B with GPI and published the first H-band spectrum of the planet.
He is also part of the Gemini Planet Imager Survey (GPIES) which will target some 600 stars and run through 2017.
In addition, his instrumentation focus is on lenslet-based integral-field spectrographs.
Jeffrey received his PhD from UCLA in 2014. He worked in the UCLA Infrared Lab, which has built some of the premier infrared imagers and spectrographs for ground-based observatories. He became a Dunlap Fellow September 2014.
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