James E. Aguirre

A Jansky Fellow
of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
Astrophysics Research Laboratory
1255 38th Street
Boulder, CO 80303
(303) 492 - 5942
jaguirre@nrao.edu

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.

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 and building a new instrument, Z-Spec, to find the redshifts of these galaxies using the rotational emission lines of carbon monoxide (CO). Working on these projects, I spend a lot of time at the summit of Mauna Kea.

List of Publications

Schedule of Talks, Conferences, and Observing