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Juan Mena-Parra
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Research
Latest papers
Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog.
Physical review letters · 2026
A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst.
Nature · 2025
Latest funding
- $200,000
Big Sky VLBI
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $74,000
Cutting-edge radio telescopes for cosmology and time-domain astrophysics
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $12,500
Cutting-edge radio telescopes for cosmology and time-domain astrophysics
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog.
Wang H, Masui K, Andrew S, Bhardwaj M, Fonseca E, Gaensler BM, Joseph RC, Kaspi VM, Kharel B, Lanman AE, Leung C, Mas-Ribas L, Mena-Parra J, Nimmo K, Pearlman AB, Pen UL, Prochaska JX, Raikman R, Shin K, Siegel SR, Smith KM, Stairs IH
A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst.
Mckinven R, Bhardwaj M, Eftekhari T, Kilpatrick CD, Kirichenko A, Pal A, Cook AM, Gaensler BM, Giri U, Kaspi VM, Michilli D, Nimmo K, Pearlman AB, Pleunis Z, Sand KR, Stairs I, Andersen BC, Andrew S, Bandura K, Brar C, Cassanelli T, Chatterjee S, Curtin AP, Dong FA, Eadie G, Fonseca E, Ibik AL, Kaczmarek JF, Kharel B, Lazda M, Leung C, Li D, Main R, Masui KW, Mena-Parra J, Ng C, Pandhi A, Patil SS, Prochaska JX, Rafiei-Ravandi M, Scholz P, Shah V, Shin K, Smith K
Big Sky VLBI
Principal investigators: Pen, Ue-Li U
Keywords: computational astrophysics; cosmology; fast radio bursts (frbs); frb localization; numerical methods; pulsars; radio telescopes; software design; theoretical astrophysics; very long-baseline interferometry
Cutting-edge radio telescopes for cosmology and time-domain astrophysics
Principal investigators: Mena-Parra, Juan
Keywords: observational cosmology; dark energy; hi intensity mapping; fast radio bursts; radio astronomy; very-long-baseline interferometry; large telescope arrays; instrumentation; calibration; data analysis
Cutting-edge radio telescopes for cosmology and time-domain astrophysics
Principal investigators: Mena-Parra, Juan
CHIME Telescope Operations
Principal investigators: Kaspi, Victoria VM
Keywords: 21-cm cosmology; fast radio transients; galactic magnetism; large scale structure; magnetars; pulsars; radio astronomy; radio polarimetry
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ingrid Stairs and Kendrick Smith: 3 shared papers
- Ingrid Stairs and Paul Scholz: 3 shared papers
- Kendrick Smith and Paul Scholz: 3 shared papers
- Ingrid Stairs and Juan Mena-Parra: 1 shared paper
- Kendrick Smith and Juan Mena-Parra: 1 shared paper
- Juan Mena-Parra and Paul Scholz: 1 shared paper
- Physics and Astronomy
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
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