1 Director’s Message
Kissler-Patig
Markus
3 Weighing the Black Hole in
M101 ULX-1
Stephen Justham and Jifeng Liu
14 Dynamical Masses of Galaxy
Clusters Discovered with the
Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect
Cristóbal Sifón, Felipe Menanteau,
John P. Hughes, and L. Felipe Barrientos
19 The Earliest Near-infrared
Spectroscopy of a Type Ia
Supernova
Hsiao, Howie Marion,
Eric
and Mark Phillips
The cover of this first
“Annual Review”
issue of GeminiFocus
features images from
the Gemini Planet
Imager’s first light,
obtained in late 2013
(see story on page
23), and the previous
covers of GeminiFocus
from 2013. All issues
of GeminiFocus are
available at:
www.gemini.edu/
geminifocus
Bruce Macintosh and Peter Michaud
27 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson
8 Ground-based Transit Spectroscopy 38 GeMS Embarks on the
Universe
of an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Benoit Neichel and Rodrigo Carrasco
Bean, Kevin Stevenson, JeanJacob
Michel Desert, and Marcel Bergmann
on the cover:
23 First Light from the
Gemini Planet Imager
43 Operations Corner
Andy Adamson
48 Instrument Development 2013
Scot Kleinman
54 Gemini Interns:
A Glimpse to the Future
Peter Michaud
56 Giving Back
Michaud, Maria Antonieta
Peter
García, and Janice Harvey
GeminiFocus January 2014 and 2013 Year in Review
GeminiFocus is a quarterly publication of Gemini Observatory
670 N. A‘ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720 USA
Phone: (808) 974-2500 Fax: (808) 974-2589
Online viewing address:
www.gemini.edu/geminifocus
Managing Editor: Peter Michaud
Science Editor: Nancy A. Levenson
Associate Editor: Stephen James O’Meara
Designer: Eve Furchgott / Blue Heron Multimedia
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation.