Astrophysics

Dr. Edgar Castillo Domínguez

Email: cade@inaoep.mx

Office: 5315

 

Education

Postdoctorate
Cardiff University, UK, 2012-2013

PhD
INAOE, Mexico, 2011

MSc
INAOE, Mexico 2000

BSc
Instituto Tecnológico de Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico 1997 

 

Research Interests

• Electromagnetic radiation sensors

• Instrumentation

• Millimeter waves astronomy

 

Projects:

• Kinetic inductance detectors for the LMT

• ToLTEC. Large format multi-band continuum camera for the LMT.

• MEGARA: Open cycle cryostat development to host the CCD

• MEGARA: Camera and collimator optomechanics development.

 

Recent Publications

L. Carrasco, O Hernández Utrera, S Vázquez, YD Mayya, E Carrasco, J Pedraza, E Castillo-Domínguez, G Escobedo, R Devaraj, A Luna, “CANICA: The Cananea Near-Infrared Camera at the 2.1 m OAGH Telescope”, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica 53 (2), 497-506, 2017.

Brien, T. et al “A continuous 100-mK helium-light cooling system for MUSCAT on the LMT”, Journal of Low Temperature Physics,  Nov 2017.

Castillo, E. et al. “MUSCAT:  Mexico-UK Sub-millimeter Camera for AsTronomy” Journal of Low Temperature Physics,  Nov 2017.

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. 

Mauskopf, P. D.; Doyle, S.; Barry, P.; Rowe, S.; Bidead, A.; Ade, P. A. R.; Tucker, C.;Castillo, E.; Monfardini, A.; Goupy, J.; Calvo, M. (2014). Journal of Low Temperature Physics, “Photon-Noise Limited Performance in Aluminum LEKIDs”.

Johansson, D. ; Horellou, C. ; Lopez-Cruz, O. ; Muller, S. ; Birkinshaw, M. ; Black, J. H. ; Bremer, M. N. ; Wall, W. F. ; Bertoldi, F. ; Castillo, E. ; Ibarra-Medel, H. J. Molecular gas and dust in the highly magnified z ~ 2.8 galaxy behind the Bullet Cluster; Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 543, id.A62, 10 pp. (2012).

Orduña-Díaz, A.; Castillo-Domínguez, E.; Torres-Jacome, A.; De la Hidalga-Wade, F. J.; Treviño-Palacios, C. G.; Design and fabrication of a bidimentional microbolometer array for Terahertz detection characterized at different temperatures; Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 274, Issue 1, article id. 012112, 5 pp. (2011)