James E. Aguirre

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 898-9596 (office)
(215) 898-2010 (fax)

My research is in the design and construction of millimeter-wave instrumentation and data analysis for that instrumentation, with a focus on addressing problems in galactic evolution, cosmology, and the large scale structure of the universe.

Projects

Z-Spec - a moderate resolution grating spectrometer for detecting molecular lines in local ULIRGs and carbon monoxide (CO) in high redshift galaxies. Z-Spec is fully commissioned and observing routinely at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Mauna Kea.

MUSTANG - a 3 mm camera for the Green Bank Telescope

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey

My thesis work was on TopHat, a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure anistropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Since 2003, I've been working on searches for distant, dust-enshrouded star forming galaxies using Bolocam.

List of Publications

Schedule of Talks, Conferences, and Observing

CU Student Radio Telescope Project