James R. Graham

James R. Graham (c. 1960) is an Irish astrophysicist who works primarily in the fields of infrared astronomy instrumentation and adaptive optics.

Graham pursued physics as his undergraduate major at Imperial College London, graduated with a BSc in 1982.

[2] In the preceding years, other claims of brown dwarf detections were made and then often retracted or disputed.

Graham's team looked for the signature of lithium absorption lines in the spectrum of the object.

Imaging extrasolar planets is complicated primarily by the overwhelming brightness of the host star as compared to the planet, which Graham likens to "seeing a firefly next to a searchlight," and the distortions caused by random movement of air in the Earth's atmosphere.