1 Director’s Message
Kissler-Patig
Markus
3 Weighing the Black Hole in M101 ULX-1
Stephen Justham and Jifeng Liu
8 World’s Most Powerful Planet Finder Turns its Eye to the Sky:
First Light with the Gemini Planet Imager
Bruce Macintosh and Peter Michaud
12 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson
15 Operations Corner: Update and 2013 Review
Andy Adamson
20 Instrumentation Development: Update and 2013 Review
Scot Kleinman
on the cover:
The cover of this issue
features first light
images from the Gemini
Planet Imager that
were released at the
January 2014 meeting
of the American
Astronomical Society
held in Washington, D.C.
See the press release
that accompanied the
images starting on
page 8 of this issue.
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