Astrophysics

Dr. Olga Vega Casanova

Office: 2300

E-mail: ovega@inaoep.mx

Education

• PhD, Astronomy, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica,  Mexico, 2007.

• MSc, Astronomy, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico, 2001.

• BSc, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain,1992.

Research Interests

• Star formation

• Star clusters

Recent Publications

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.; and 2 coauthors, “Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: discovery of the 12CO(1-0) emission line in the ring galaxy VIIZw466”, MNRAS,466, 574, 2017.

Rosa-González, D.; Coutiño de León, S.; Mayya, Y. D.; Carramiñana, A.; Aretxaga, I.; Becerra González, J.; Furniss, A.; Terlevich, E.; Vega, O.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; and 3 coauthors, “On the redshifts of the BL Lac 3FGL J0909.0+2310 and its close companion”, MNRAS, 466, 540, 2017.

Alexandra Pope, Alfredo Montaña,, Andrew Battisti,  Marceau Limousin, , Danilo Marchesini,  Grant W. Wilson,  Stacey Alberts, , Itziar Aretxaga, , Vladimir Avila-Reese, , Gabriel Brammer8,  Hector Bravo-Alfaro, , Daniela Calzetti, Ranga-Ram Chary,  Ryan Cybulski, Mauro Giavalisco, David Hughes, Erica Keller, Allison Kirkpatrick, Ivo Labbe,  Daniel Lange-Vagle, , James Lowenthal, Eric Murphy,  Pascal Oesch,  Daniel Rosa Gonzalez, David Sanchez-Arguelles, Mauro Stefanon,  Olga Vega, , Katherine Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Min Yun, Jorge Zavala, Milagros Zeballos, “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”, ApJ, 838, 137, 2017.

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. 

Yun, M. S., Aretxaga, I., Gurwell, M. A., Hughes, D. H., Montaña, A., Narayanan, G., Rosa-González, D., Sánchez-Argüelles, D. (est.), Schloerb, F. P., Snell, R. L., Vega, O., Wilson, G. W., Zeballos, M., Chavez, M., Cybulski, R., Díaz-Santos, T., De La Luz, V., Erickson, N., Ferrusca, D., Gim, H. B., Heyer, M. H., Iono, D., Pope, A., Rogstad, S. M., Scott, K. S., Souccar, K., Terlevich, E., Terlevich, R., Wilner, D., Zavala, J. A. (est.),"Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: COand [C II] Emission in the z = 4.3 AzTEC J095942.9+022938 (COSMOS AzTEC-1)", MNRAS 454, 3485-3499, 12/2015.

Kirkpatrick, A., Pope, A., Aretxaga, I., Armus, L., Calzetti, D., Helou, G., Montaña, A., Narayanan, G., Schloerb, F. P., Shi, Y., Vega, O., Yun, M. S., "Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Exploring the Effect of AGN Activity on the Relationships between Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation", ApJ 796, 135-, 12/2014.

Rampazzo, R., Vega, O., Bressan, A., Clemens, M. S., Marino, A., Panuzzo, P., "A Spitzer-IRS view of early-type galaxies with cuspy/core nuclei and fast/slow rotation", Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 565, id.A50,  pp. 565, A50-, 5/2014.

Cruz-Saenz de Miera, F., Chavez, M., Bertone, E., Vega, O., "Searching for infrared excesses in Sun-like stars observed by WISE", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 437, Issue 1, p.391-396 437, 391-396, 1/2014.