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James E. AguirreAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania 209 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 898-9596 (office) (215) 898-2010 (fax) |
My research aims to
understand the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies, and to
place them in the context of cosmology and the
large
scale structure of the universe. Towards this goal, I am involved in the design and construction of cutting edge millimeter-wave and radio instrumentation and the creation of data analysis for that instrumentation. List of Publications |
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Z-Spec is a moderate resolution grating
spectrometer for detecting molecular lines in local ULIRGs and carbon
monoxide (CO) in high redshift galaxies. It covers the entire 200
- 300 GHz (1.6 - 1.0 mm) atmospheric window with ~1000 km/s
resolution. Z-Spec is fully
commissioned and observing routinely at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on
the summit of Mauna
Kea. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0807990. 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. |
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The
Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) is an instrument designed to detect a
signature of
the first stars and galaxies. It does this by detecting the voids
produced in emission from neutral hydrogren (HI) as these first stars
ionize the previously-neutral universe. PAPER is an interferometer operating from 100 - 200 MHz
(near FM radio frequencies); one of the antenna stations is shown at
left. PAPER currently has a 16 antenna test station operating in
Green Bank, West Virginia and will eventually deploy 128 antennas to the
Murchison Radio Observatory in the outback country in Western Australia. |
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MUSTANG - a 3 mm bolometer array camera
for
the Green Bank Telescope. |
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The
Bolocam
Galactic Plane Survey. A 1.1 mm
continuum survey of the First
Quadrant of the Galactic Plane and selected fields in the Outer Galaxy. |
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Bolocam has also been used to search for distant, dust-enshrouded star forming galaxies. There are two deep fields, the Lockman Hole and COSMOS. The Lockman Hole maps are available from IPAC. | |
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My
thesis work was on TopHat,
a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure anistropy in the Cosmic
Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. |
