JOHN C. BARENTINE

Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station, C1400
Austin, TX 78712-0259 USA
Office RLM 16.312
Tel 512-471-8275
Fax 512-471-6016
Email jcb(at)astro.as.utexas.edu

I did my master's work at UT in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) group under the supervision of Prof. John Lacy, involving analysis of data from the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrometer (TEXES) instrument on the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i. I have also worked on the assembly and testing of TEXES's successor, the Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrometer (EXES) to begin flying on the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in 2011-12.

In a previous life, I was employed as a 3.5m Telescope Observing Specialist (2001-5) for the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) and an Observer (2004-6) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, NM.

In an even earlier previous life, I completed a master's degree in physics at Colorado State University in 2002. My thesis project, supervised by Prof. Roger Culver, involved an evaluation of a 0.5-meter telescope for doing high-precision photometry studies of extrasolar planet transits for the Global Network of Automated Telescopes (GNAT).






My research interests currently include molecular spectroscopy, the 21cm high velocity clouds, Milky Way structure and dynamics, and high precision photometry.

Curriculum Vitae

Theses

• M.A. "A Comparative Astrochemical Study of the High Mass Protostellar Objects NGC 7538 IRS 1 and IRS 9" (2008) (PDF)
  
• M.S. "A Diagnostic Analysis Of A SciTech STAR Class 0.5m Telescope For The Purpose Of High Precision Photometry" (2002) (PDF)
  

• astro-ph
• ADS

h-index: 17 (December 2009)

Presentations

Talks
• "Distances To The 21cm High Velocity Clouds" (UTexas Exgal Seminar, December 2009) (PDF)
• "Astrophysics In The Mid-Infrared With EXES" (UTexas, September 2007) (HTML) (PDF)
• "Tidal Disruption And Cannibalism Of Dwarf Milky Way Satellite Galaxies As Revealed In New Discoveries By The SDSS" (UTexas, April 2007) (PDF)
• "Radiative Processes in the 21 cm High Velocity Clouds Problem" (UTexas, December 2006) (PDF)
• "The APO-PSI TNO Survey" (UTexas, October 2006) (PDF)
• "The Life And Times Of The Milky Way" (Alamogordo Astronomy Club, Alamogordo, NM, November 2005) (HTML) (PDF)
• "The Science Of SDSS" (National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM, June 2004) (HTML) (PDF)

Posters
• "Detection of a Distinct Pseudobulge Hidden Inside the 'Box-Shaped Bulge' of NGC 4565" (Galaxy Evolution: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges, UTexas, November 2008) (PDF)
• "A Gamma Ray Burst Fields Study In The Near-infrared" (208th AAS Meeting, Calgary, AB, June 2006) (PDF)
• "A Possible Rock Art Depiction Of The A.D. 1006 Supernova Event In The American Southwest" (208th AAS Meeting, Calgary, AB, June 2006) (PDF)
• "Near Infrared Observations of Barnards Merope Nebula (IC 349)" (203rd AAS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2004) (PDF)

• American Astronomical Society (AAS; 2000-present)
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP; 2002-present)
• American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS; 1993-present)

LINKS

UT Astronomy Home Page
UT Astro Interstellar Medium Group
My personal home page (non-UT)