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 am a fourth-year graduate student in the Extragalactic Astronomy Group at UT, working with Prof. John Kormendy on the secular evolution of galaxies.

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.


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