PARMAGNUS
MEMBERS
Founding team, Spring 2019
Dr. Héctor Noriega Mendoza
Héctor Noriega Mendoza is an astrophysicist and astronomy professor at UTEP Physics Department graduated from UNAM (México), NMSU (USA) and UCM (Spain). His research interests are extrasolar planets and non-collisional N-body simulations of spheroidal and merging galaxies. He launched the Parallelus Magnificus project in the spring of 2019 at UTEP.
Sean Midea
Alexis Lupo
María Luisa Sosa Salgado
Tim Watson
Research collaborators
Dr. José María Solanes, UB (Spain), Extragalactic astronomy
Dr. Jaime Perea, IAA (Spain), Extragalactic astronomy
Dr. Luis Aguilar Chiu, UNAM (México), Stellar and Galactic dynamics
Dr. Daniel Carpintero, UNLP (Argentina), Stellar and Galactic dynamics
Drs. José María Solanes, Jaime Perea, Luis Aguilar Chiu and Daniel D. Carpintero are three leading international experts in the fields of stellar/galactic dynamics and N-body simulations of gravitationally-bound systems. Dr. Noriega Mendoza keeps a professional collaboration with them, particularly regarding the orbital makeup and structural features of dry galaxy merger remnants and cold-collapsed spheroidal systems via collisionless, high-precision N-body simulations.
Dr. Paul A. Mason, DACC-NMSU (USA), Variable and cataclysmic binary stars
Dr. Mason is our borderplex specialist and expert in variable stars, particularly in the field of cataclysmic binaries. We recently resumed a collaboration that started back in 2010 when Dr. Mason was a faculty member at the UTEP Physics Department.
ParMagnus telescope team, Fall 2019
Omar Corrales
Steven Garza
Emmanuel Márquez
In the fall of 2019, the ParMagnus project counted on three dynamic astronomy students: Omar Corrales, Steven Garza and Emmanuel Márquez (PS, CS and BA majors, respectively). Their support and participation made it possible to host ParMagnus's first Telescope Nights at local high schools in El Paso.
ParMagnus Exoplanet Group founding team, Fall 2023
Dang Pham (UTEP)
Justin Laberge (UTEP)
Kevin Ayala Vilchis
(UTEP)
The first AIJ training sessions to reduce and analyze TFOP photometric data collected by the ParMagnus Observatory started in the fall of 2023. This group of three UTEP astronomy students is the founding team that in the spring of 2024 became the ParMagnus Exoplanet Group.