Fiona Lopez

Education

B.S. Physics: Texas A&M University, 2025

Research

I am interested in galaxy clusters and high redshift galaxies. My current research at NMSU with Dr. Joe Burchett focuses on characterizing galaxy clusters using X-ray observations from eROSITA. This involves fitting spectra as well as extracting temperature and radial flux profiles to study the hot intracluster medium.

Publications

F. Lopez, D. R. Wik, C. Potter, R. A. Rojas Bolivar, A. Tümer, D. Eckert, F. Gastaldello, B. R. Grefenstette, K. Madsen, B. Maughan, E. D. Miller, G. Schellenberger, and A. N. Wallbank “Cross-Calibration of Galaxy Cluster Temperatures Measured with NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Chandra,” Accepted, pending ApJ publication
R. Allen, B. Tallman, A. Boone, A. Vijayakumar, F. Lopez, S. Apata, and J. Martinez, “Potential for Definitive Discovery of a 70GeV Dark Matter WIMP with Only Second-Order Gauge Couplings,” LHEP 2023 (2023) 342
B. Tallman, A. Boone, C. LaFontaine, T. Croteau, Q. Ballard, S. Hernandez, S. Ellis, A. Vijayakumar, F. Lopez, S. Apata, J. Martinez, and R. Allen “Indirect detection, direct detection, and collider detection cross-sections for a 70 GeV dark matter WIMP,” PoS ICHEP2022 (2022) 988