Saavidra Perera (UC Santa Cruz): "Imaging Young Jupiters with GPI 2.0"

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high-contrast imaging instrument designed to directly detect and characterise young, Jupiter-mass exoplanets. After six years of operation at Gemini South in Chile, the instrument is being upgraded and relocated to Gemini North in Hawaii as GPI 2.0. GPI helped establish that Jovian-mass planets have a higher occurrence rate at smaller separations, motivating several sub-system upgrades to obtain deeper contrasts. One of the major upgrades is to the adaptive optics (AO) subsystem, which will enable access to fainter targets and increase stability on bright ones. Key science goals for GPI 2.0 include a large-scale survey with emphasis on cold-start planets, very young nearby stars, transitional disks, and asteroids, to name a few. Here I will present an overview of GPI 2.0, the new scientific goals and the adaptive optics upgrades.