We present the application of a new jet reconstruction algorithm that uses a Gaussian filter to locate and reconstruct the jet energy to p + p and heavy ion data from the PHENIX detector. This algorithm is combined with a fake jet rejection scheme that provides efficient jet reconstruction with an acceptable fake rate. We show our first results on the measured jet spectra, and on jet-jet angular correlation in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions.The study of jet physics at RHIC plays an important role in understanding the parton-medium interaction, in-medium fragmentation properties, and applied to the RHIC spin program, also the study of the proton structure. We therefore set out to systematically investigate the feasibility of, and the appropriate approach of performing jet reconstruction using a limited aperture detector like the PHENIX central arms [1] and including heavy ion collision systems. Neither is a wellstudied aspect of jet reconstruction, and both have been considered as challenging [2].We observed that the flat weighting in traditional jet reconstruction algorithms is particularly prone to fluctuations at large angle. A similiar effect also exists at the PHENIX central arm edges, here due to the lack of balancing fragments. Both issues can be effectively addressed by a nonflat weighting that smoothly dampens large angle fragments. Furthermore, the energy flow variable as proposed by Sterman et al. [3] suggests that angular convolution of the event p T