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Jeff Bary

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy , 409 Ho Science Center
p 315 2287693

Degree

BS Emory & Henry College 1995

PhD Vanderbilt University 2003

Teaching Experience

Intermediate Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASTR 210)

Astrophysics (ASTR 314)

General Physics II (PHYS 121)

Saving the Appearances: Galileo, the Church, and the Scientific Endeavor (FSEM/CoreSP)

NSF K-12 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University/Metro Nashville Public Schools 2002-2003

Instructor, Intro Astronomy for Pre-service and In-service Teachers, University of Virginia 2005-2008

Specialities

 Infrared and optical spectroscopy of young sun-like stars

Interests
  • Formation of stars and planetary systems
  • Star-disk interactions (circumstellar disk irradiation, accretion, bipolar outflows)
  • Evolution of proto-planetary disks (disk lifetimes, dust grain composition, and grain growth)
  • Extinction in dense cloud cores
  • Infrared spectroscopy

Publications

"Circumbinary Gas Accretion onto a Central Binary:  Infrared Molecular Hydrogen Emission from GG Tau A"  Beck, T. L., Bary, J. S., Dutrey, A., Pietu, V., Guilloteau, S., Lubow, S. H., & Simon, M.  2012, ApJ, 754, 72

"Spatially Extended Brackett Gamma Emission in the Environments of Young Stars" Beck, T. L., Bary, J. S., & McGregor, P. J.  2010, ApJ, 722, 1360

"Variations of the 10 um Silicate Features in the Actively Accreting T Tauri Stars: DG Tau and XZ Tau" Bary, J. S., Leisenring, J. M., & Skrutskie, M. F. 2009, ApJL, 706, L168-172

"Interferometric Evidence for Resolved Warm Dust in the DQ Tau System" Boden, A., Akeson, R. L., Sargent, A. I., Carpenter, J. M., Ciardi, D. R., Bary, J. S., & Skrutskie, M. F. 2009, ApJL, 696, L111

"Physical Conditions of Accreting Gas in T Tauri Star Systems" Bary, J., Matt, S., Skrutskie, M., Wilson, J., Peterson, D., & Nelson, M. 2008, ApJ, 687, 376

"Quiescent H2 Emission from Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in Chamaeleon I" Bary, J., Weintraub, D., Shukla, S., & Kastner, J. 2008, ApJ, 678, 1088

"Detections of Rovibrational H2 Emission from the Disks of T Tauri Stars" Bary, J., Weintraub, D., & Kastner, J. 2003, ApJ, 586, 1136

"Detection of Molecular Hydrogen Orbiting a 'Naked' T Tauri Star" Bary, J., Weintraub, D., & Kastner, J. 2002, ApJL, 576, 73

"Detection of Quiescent Molecular Hydrogen Gas in the Circumstellar Disk of a Classical T Tauri Star" Weintraub, D., Kastner, J., & Bary, J. 2000, ApJ, 541, 767

Dissertation

 "Timescale for Disk Survival: Searching for the Molecular Hydrogen Component of Protoplanetary Disks Orbiting T Tauri Stars"

Professional Experience

 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 2005-2008

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia, 2004-2005

Distinctions

 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2008
NSF GK-12 Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2002-2003
AAPT -- Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2002
Vanderbilt College of Arts & Sciences -- teaching assistant of the year nominee, 2002