Astrofísica

 

CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: dhughes@inaoep.mx

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Información Curricular

Doctorado

Astrofísica, "Active Galactic Nuclei at Infrared to Submillimetre Wavelengths", Universidad Central Lancashire, UK, 1990.

Licenciatura

Astronomía y Astrofísica en la Universidad de St. Andrews, honores,  UK, 1986.

 

Premios y reconocimientos

Como miembro de la Colaboración del Event Horizon Telescope (EHT):

Frontiers of Science Award, 2025. Chinese Academy of Sciences (China). Otorgado a la Colaboración EHT en la categoría AI for Physical Sciences, por el trabajo "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2019.

Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award, 2021. Royal Astronomical Society (Reino Unido). Por mostrar al mundo la primera imagen de la sombra proyectada por el agujero negro de M87.

Breakthrough Prize en Física Fundamental, 2020. Breakthrough Prize Board (Estados Unidos). Por participar en la toma de la primera imagen de un agujero negro supermasivo a través de la red de telescopios EHT.

Premio Bruno Rossi, 2020. American Astronomical Society (Estados Unidos). Otorgado al equipo del EHT por sus logros en astrofísica de alta energía.

Medalla Einstein, 2020. Sociedad Albert Einstein (Suiza). Otorgada al equipo del EHT en reconocimiento a su logro histórico de obtener la primera imagen de un agujero negro en el centro de la galaxia M87.

NSF Diamond Achievement Award, 2019. National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos). Primer reconocimiento de este tipo otorgado por la NSF, entregado a la Colaboración EHT.

Reconocimientos nacionales:

Reconocimiento por su participación en la investigación Event Horizon Telescope, 2024. Honorable Congreso del Estado de Puebla.

Reconocimiento por 25 años de labor en el INAOE, 2024. INAOE, entregado en el 53 Aniversario del Instituto.

Estímulo al Desempeño Académico Nivel 5, 2023. INAOE. Por ser el miembro más productivo de la Coordinación de Astrofísica del INAOE.

Presea Estatal de Ciencia y Tecnología "Luis Rivera Terrazas", 2019. Congreso del Estado de Puebla. En el área de Físico-Matemáticas, Ciencias de la Tierra e Ingenierías.

Reconocimiento al INAOE por participar en el EHT, 2019. Cámara de Diputados (México).

Premio Scopus México en Astronomía, 2010. CONACYT / Editorial Elsevier. Por el impacto internacional de su trabajo científico, con base en el índice H.

 

Métricas Bibliométrica

H-index	90
No. Artículos	283
Citas totales (sin auto-citas)	35,534

 

Líneas de Investigación

• Astronomía Milimétrica

• Cosmología

 

Proyectos

• C-695-2024 Evolución del Gran Telescopio Milimétrico hacia nuevas capacidades científicas.
• LABORATORIO DE INSTRUMENTACIÓN MILIMÉTRICA DEL INAOE.
• GRAN TELESCOPIO MILIMÉTRICO ALFONSO SERRANO, Director e Investigador Principal.
• EHT (EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE.
• Z-GAL. A comprehensive redshift survey of the brightest Herschel galaxies. Colaborador (IRAM, IAP, ESO, NRAO, INAOE, Open University, Cardiff University, MPIA).
• MUSCAT- Mexico-UK Submillimeter Camera for Astronomy. A new technology large format camera for the Large Millimeter Telescope.  CONACYT/FONCICYT.
• TOLTEC: La cámara bolométrica de la segunda generación del 50m GTM. Instituciones: INAOE (Mexico), UMass, Arizona State Univ. (EEUU), U.Cardiff (Gran Bretaña).

 

Tesis Dirigidas

Doctorado

• Marcial Tapia Becerril, "Desarollo de cámaras de gran formato de longitud de onda milimétrica para restringir la evolución estelar en el universo local y temprano" INAOE, 2024. 

• Jorge Zavala, “Estudios multifrecuencia de galaxias submilimétricas: propiedades físicas a través del tiempo”, INAOE, 2017.

• David  Omar Sánchez Argüelles, "High-resolution observations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect to constrain models of dark energy", INAOE, 2017.

• Emmaly Aguilar Pérez, "The redshift distribution and spatial clustering of massive galaxies identified in balloon-borne and ground-based (sub-)millimeter surveys", INAOE, (2009-).

• Milagros Zeballos Rebaza, "The early evolutionary history of massive galaxies towards clusters and biased over-dense regions", INAOE, 2013.

• Alfredo Montaña, "Structure formation and accelerated evolution in the high-redshift universe", INAOE, INAOE, 2012.

• Miguel Velázquez, "A Fourier-transform spectrometer for characterising the atmospheric transmission at millimeter wavelengths",  INAOE, 2007.

• Jeff Wagg,  "Selected optical to radio observations of the evolution of massive galaxies and structure formation in the early universe",  INAOE, 2006.

• Daniel Ferrusca,  "A cryogenic He-4 bolometer system for detecting (sub-) millimeter wavelength radiation", INAOE, 2006.

• Edward Chapin,  "The redshift distribution of optically-obscured galaxies identified in balloon borne submillimetre surveys", INAOE, 2004.

Maestría

• Jorge Zavala, “Estudiando la evolución de galaxias con scuba2 cosmology legacy survey”, INAOE, 2013.

• Victor Hugo Gómez Rivera, "Detector fabrication using Si Ni thin film absorbers", INAOE, 2012.

• Mauricio Gómez González, "Feedhorns & radiation coupling at millimeter wavelengths", INAOE, 2012.

• Eduardo Ibarra Medel,  "Electronic multiplexed readouts for SQUID arrays", INAOE, 2012.

• Salvador Ventura, "Characterising the transmission properties of non-organic & organic materials with cyrogenically-cooled detectors and an Michelson Martin-Pupplet Fourier Transform Spectrometer at Terahertz frequencies", INAOE, 2011.

• David Sánchez, "High-resolution observations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect to constrain models of dark energy", INAOE, 2009.

• Emmaly Aguilar, "The redshift distribution and spatial clustering of massive galaxies identified in balloon-borne and ground-based (sub-) millimeter surveys", INAOE, 2009.

• Francisco Ramos Stierle, "The detectability of planetary formation in dusty disks at millimeter wavelengths", INAOE, 2004.

• Alfredo Montaña, "Fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background", INAOE, 2003.

• Miguel-Angel Aragón, "The Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect simulations of millimetre wavelength observations of clusters", INAOE, 2002.

 Licenciatura

• Leslie Elisa Barrios Michel, Tesis de Licenciatura, "Caracterización del desempeño de SuperSpec en el Gran Telescopio Milimétrico", Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia, 2025.

• Susanna Finn, BSc thesis project , "The negative K-correction and the evolution of FIR to submillimetre colours in distant galaxies", visiting summer student, Brown University, USA, 2005.

• John Linder, BSc thesis project, "Dusty galaxies: modelling spectral energy distributions" visiting summer student, Univ. of Victoria Canada, 2004.

 

Publicaciones Recientes

Catálogo completo en Biblioteca personal ADS

2026

Castro-Camus, E., Ferrusca, D., Carpenter, J., Hughes, D., et al., (2026). Advancements in millimeter wavelength and terahertz astronomy: single-dish and interferometric telescopes, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Volume 47, Number 4, id. 27. DOI: 10.1007/s10762-026-01131-6

Albentosa-Ruiz, E., Washington, J.E., Marchili, N., et al. (2026). Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 708, id. A179. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556759

Georgiev, B., Tiede, P., von Fellenberg, S.D., et al. (2026). Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 709, id. A26. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557013

Bernshteyn, V., Conroy, N.S., Bauböck, M., et al. (2026). Ring Asymmetry and Spin in M87*, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 1000, Number 2, id. 231. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae34af

Gómez, J.L., Cho, I., Traianou, E., et al. (2026). Spatially resolved polarization swings in the supermassive binary black hole candidate OJ 287 with first Event Horizon Telescope observations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 705, id. A23. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555831

Saurabh, Müller, H., von Fellenberg, S.D., et al. (2026). Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 706, id. A27. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557022

Quirós-Rojas, M., Montaña, A., Zavala, J.A., Aretxaga, I., Nava-Moreno, N.A., Hughes, D.H., (2026). On the multiplicity of red-Herschel sources and its implications for extreme star formation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 545, Number 3, id. staf2133. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2133

Fang, J., Zeng, X., Ao, Y., et al. (2026). ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: A Near-infrared-dark Submillimeter Galaxy at z > 4.5, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 26, Number 5, id. 055002. DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/ae3f09

2025

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Akiyama, K., Albentosa-Ruíz, E., et al. (2025). The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87: II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 693, id. A265. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451296

Röder, J., Wielgus, M., Lobanov, A.P., et al. (2025). A multifrequency study of sub-parsec jets with the Event Horizon Telescope, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 695, id. A233. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452600

Dahale, R., Cho, I., Moriyama, K., et al. (2025). Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87*, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 699, id. A279. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555235

Goddi, C., Carlos, D.F., Crew, G.B., et al. (2025). First polarization study of the M87 jet and active galactic nuclei at submillimeter wavelengths with ALMA, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 699, id. A265. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554140

Kawabe, R., Sakai, T., Tanaka, K., et al. (2025). The LMT 2 Millimeter Receiver System (B4R). I. Overview and Results of Science Demonstration, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 170, Number 6, id. 350. DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae12eb

Yonetsu, T., Kawabe, R., Yoshimura, Y., et al. (2025). The LMT 2 millimeter receiver system (B4R). II. Science demonstration observations toward Orion-KL/OMC-1, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Volume 77, Number 6, pp. 1224-1258. DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf105

2024

Baczko, A.-K., Kadler, M., Ros, E., et al., (2024). The putative center in NGC 1052, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 692, id. A205. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450898

Algaba, J.C., Baloković, M., Chandra, S., et al., (2024). Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 692, id. A140. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450497

Quirós-Rojas, M., Montaña, A., Zavala, J.A., Aretxaga, I., Hughes, D.H., (2024). ALMA follow-up of ~3000 red-Herschel galaxies: the nature of extreme submillimetre galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 533, Issue 3, pp. 2966-2979. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1974

Raymond, A.W., Doeleman, S.S., Asada, K., et al., (2024). First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections at 870 μm, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 168, Number 3, id. 130. DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad5bdb

Tamura, Y., Sakai, T., Kawabe, R., et al., (2024). FINER: Far-Infrared Nebular Emission Receiver for the Large Millimeter Telescope, Proc. SPIE 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII, id. 131020G. DOI: 10.1117/12.3017788 (proceedings — confirmar si va en la web)

Bakx, T.J.L.C., Berta, S., Dannerbauer, H., Cox, P., Butler, K.M., Hagimoto, M., Hughes, D.H., Riechers, D.A., van der Werf, P.P., Yang, C., et al., (2024). A dusty protocluster surrounding the binary galaxy HerBS-70 at z = 2.3, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 530, Issue 4, pp. 4578-4596. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1155

Silich, E.M., Bellomi, E., Sayers, J., ZuHone, J., Chadayammuri, U., Golwala, S., Hughes, D., Montaña, A., Mroczkowski, T., Nagai, D., et al., (2024). ICM-SHOX. I. Methodology Overview and Discovery of a Gas–Dark Matter Velocity Decoupling in the MACS J0018.5+1626 Merger, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 968, Issue 2, id. 74, 25 pp. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3fb5

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., et al., (2024). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Physical Interpretation of the Polarized Ring, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 964, Issue 2, id. L26, 37 pp. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., et al., (2024). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 964, Issue 2, id. L25, 32 pp. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0

Michałowski, M.J., Gall, C., Hjorth, J., Frayer, D.T., Tsai, A.-L., Rowlands, K., Takeuchi, T.T., Leśniewska, A., Behrendt, D., Bourne, N., Hughes, D.H., et al., (2024). The Fate of the Interstellar Medium in Early-type Galaxies. III. The Mechanism of Interstellar Medium Removal and the Quenching of Star Formation, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 964, Issue 2, id. 129, 21 pp. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1b52

Borsato, E., Marchetti, L., Negrello, M., Corsini, E.M., Wake, D., Amvrosiadis, A., Baker, A.J., Bakx, T.J.L.C., Beelen, A., Berta, S., Hughes, D.H., et al., (2024). Characterization of Herschel-selected strong lens candidates through HST and sub-mm/mm observations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 528, Issue 4, pp. 6222-6279. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3381

Taniguchi, K., Rayalacheruvu, P., Yonetsu, T., Takekoshi, T., Hatsukade, B., Kohno, K., Hughes, D.H., et al., (2024). Large-scale Mapping Observations of DCN and DCO+ toward Orion KL, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 963, Number 1, id. 12. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1e5a

Paraschos, G.F., Kim, J.-Y., Wielgus, M., Röder, J., Krichbaum, T.P., Ros, E., et al., (2024). Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 682, id. L3. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348308

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., et al., (2024). The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M 87. I. Observations, calibration, imaging, and analysis, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 681, id. A79, 63 pp. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347932

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