Astrophysics

Dr. Esperanza Carrasco

Office: 2304

E-mail: bec@inaoep.mx

Education

PhD, Astronomy, University of Durham, England, 1992

MSc, Sciences, Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, Mexico, 1986

BSc, Physics, UNAM, 1982

Research Interests

• Optical and near-infrared instrumentation

• Multi-fibre spectroscopy

Recent Publications

E. Carrasco, R. Avila, A. Erasmus, S. G. Djorgovski, A. R. Walker, and R. Blum, “A Satellite Survey of Cloud Cover and Water Vapor in the Southwestern USA and Northern Mexico”,  Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 129:035005 (22pp), 2017

A.Galindo, E.Moreno, E.Carrasco, I.Torres, A.Carramiñana,  M. Bonilla , H.     Salazar, R.Conde, for the LAGO Collaboration, “Calibration of a large water-Cherenkov detector at the Sierra Negra site of  LAGO”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A. 861, 28–37, 2017.

Avilés, J. L., Avila, R., Carrasco, E., Sánchez, L. J., Chun, M., Butterley, T., Wilson, R., Urbiola, F. J., "Temporal decorrelation of optical turbulence as a function of altitude in the atmosphere", MNRAS 458, 1733-1741, 5/2016.

R. Izazaga-Pérez, D. Aguirre-Aguirre, E. Carrasco,  M. E. Percino-     Zacarías, F. S. Granados-Agustín, B. Villalobos-Mendoza, N.   López- Hernández, V. López-Cortés, J. T. Quechol-López, & MEGARA Team, “Cutting and shaping operations for optical glasses”. Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 9633963324-1., 2015. 

A. Gil de Paz,  J. Gallego, E. Carrasco, J. Iglesias-Páramo, R. Cedazo, J. M. Vílchez, M. L.  García Vargas et al. “MEGARA: a new generation optical spectrograph for GTC”. Proceedings of SPIE: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V  (Vol. 9147).  Paper number: 9147-23, 2014.

E. Carrasco, G. Páez, F. Granados, E. Percino,  E. Castillo-Domínguez,  J.L. Avilés, M.L. García-Vargas, A. Gil de Paz, J. Gallego, J. Iglesias-Páramo, R. Cedazo & MEGARA Team.  “MEGARA Optical Manufacturing Process”. Proceedings of SPIE: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V  (Vol. 9147).  Paper number: 9147-264, 2014. 

E. Castillo-Domínguez, J.L. Avilés , E. Carrasco, M. Maldonado, A. Gil de Paz, J. Gallego,R. Cedazo, J. Iglesias  & MEGARA team.  “MEGARA main optics opto-mechanics”. Proceedings of SPIE: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V  (Vol. 9147).   Paper number: 9147-214, 2014.