Astrophysics

Dr. Alfredo Montaña

Email: amontana@inaoep.mx

Office: 5313

Education

PhD, “Impact of the submillimeter galaxy population on studies of the Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect”, INAOE, 2012. Supervisors: Dr. David H. Hughes and Dr. Enrique Gaztañaga.

MSc, “Simulating Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: Statistical tools and applications”, INAOE, 2003. Supervisors: Dr. David H. Hughes and Dr. Enrique Gaztañaga.

BSc, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, México, 2000.

Research Interests

• Millimeter Astronomy and Cosmology.

• Galaxy Formation and Evolution.

• Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Clusters.

Recent Publications

Gómez-Ruiz, A. I.; Guzman-Ramirez, L.; Serrano, E. O.; Sánchez-Argüelles, D.; Luna, A.; Schloerb, F. P.; Narayanan, G.; Yun, M. S.; Sahai, R.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Chavez-Dagostino, M.; Montaña, A.; Hughes, D. H.; Rodríguez, M. "Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: molecules in the extreme outflow of a protoplanetary nebula"  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 467, Issue 1, p.L61-L65 2017.

Wong, O. Ivy; Vega, O.; Sánchez-Argüelles, D.; Narayanan, G.; Wall, W. F.; Zwaan, M. A.; Rosa González, D.; Zeballos, M.; Bekki, K.; Mayya, Y. D.; Montaña, A.; Chung, A. "Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: discovery of the 12CO(1-0) emission line in the ring galaxy VIIZw466", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 466, Issue 1, p.574-580 (2017).

Pope, Alexandra; Montaña, Alfredo; Battisti, Andrew; Limousin, Marceau; Marchesini, Danilo; Wilson, Grant W.; Alberts, Stacey; Aretxaga, Itziar; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Ramón Bermejo-Climent, José; Brammer, Gabriel; Bravo-Alfaro, Hector; Calzetti, Daniela; Chary, Ranga-Ram; Cybulski, Ryan; Giavalisco, Mauro; Hughes, David; Kado-Fong, Erin; Keller, Erica; Kirkpatrick, Allison; Labbe, Ivo; Lange-Vagle, Daniel; Lowenthal, James; Murphy, Eric; Oesch, Pascal; Rosa Gonzalez, Daniel; Sánchez-Argüelles, David; Shipley, Heath; Stefanon, Mauro; Vega, Olga; Whitaker, Katherine; Williams, Christina C.; Yun, Min; Zavala, Jorge A.; Zeballos, Milagros. "Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Detection of Dust Emission in Multiple Images of a Normal Galaxy at z > 4 Lensed by a Frontier Fields Cluster",The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 838, Issue 2, article id. 137, 9 pp. (2017).

Cybulski, R., Yun, M. S., Erickson, N., De la Luz, V., Narayanan, G., Montaña, A., Sánchez, D., Zavala, J. A., Zeballos, M., Chung, A., Fernández, X., van Gorkom, J., Haines, C. P., Jaffé, Y. L., Montero-Castaño, M., Poggianti, B. M., Verheijen, M. A. W., Yoon, H., Deshev, B. Z., Harrington, K., Hughes, D. H., Morrison, G. E., Schloerb, F. P., Velazquez, M., "Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: COOL BUDHIES I - a pilot study of molecular and atomic gas at z ? 0.2", MNRAS 459, 3287-3306, 7/2016.

Chavez-Dagostino, M., Bertone, E., Cruz-Saenz de Miera, F., Marshall, J. P., Wilson, G. W., Sánchez-Argüelles, D., Hughes, D. H., Kennedy, G., Vega, O., De la Luz, V., Dent, W. R. F., Eiroa, C., Gómez-Ruiz, A., Greaves, J. S., Lizano, S., López-Valdivia, R., Mamajek, E., Montaña, A., Olmedo, M., Rodríguez-Montoya, I., Schloerb, F. P., Yun, M. S., Zavala, J. A., Zeballos, M., "Deep LMT/AzTEC millimeter observations of ? Eridani and its surroundings", MNRAS , 6/2016.

Harrington, K. C., Yun, M. S., Cybulski, R., Wilson, G. W., Aretxaga, I., Chavez, M., De la Luz, V., Erickson, N., Ferrusca, D., Gallup, A. D., Hughes, D. H., Montaña, A., Narayanan, G., Sánchez-Argüelles, D., Schloerb, F. P., Souccar, K., Terlevich, E., Terlevich, R., Zeballos, M., Zavala, J. A., "Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: observations of extremely luminous high-z sources identified by Planck", MNRAS 458, 4383-4399, 6/2016.

Ortiz-León, G. N., Johnson, M. D., Doeleman, S. S., Blackburn, L., Fish, V. L., Loinard, L., Reid, M. J., Castillo, E., Chael, A. A., Hernández-Gómez, A., Hughes, D. H., León-Tavares, J., Lu, R.-S., Montaña, A., Narayanan, G., Rosenfeld, K., Sánchez, D., Schloerb, F. P., Shen, Z.-q., Shiokawa, H., SooHoo, J., Vertatschitsch, L., "The Intrinsic Shape of Sagittarius A* at 3.5 mm Wavelength", ApJ 824, 40-, 6/2016.

Zavala, J. A., Micha?owski, M. J., Aretxaga, I., Wilson, G. W., Hughes, D. H., Montaña, A., Dunlop, J. S., Pope, A., Sánchez-Argüelles, D., Yun, M. S., Zeballos, M., "Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: dust constraints in a z ˜ 9.6 galaxy", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 453, Issue 1, p.L88-L92 453, L88-L92, 10/2015.