Thomas G. Barnes III
Senior Research Scientist, McDonald Observatory |
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Address: Senior Research Scientist, McDonald Observatory RLM 16.228 University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 512-471-1301 E-Mail: tgb@astro.as.utexas.edu Research Interests: observational aspects of variable stars; photometry and radial velocity
studies of Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1970 M.A., University of Toronto, 1968 B.S., University of Rochester, 1966 UT Astronomy Courses Taught: AST 309L: Extraterrestrial Life AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy |
I came to the University of Texas in 1970 as the W.J. McDonald Postgraduate
Fellow and have served UT in various capacities since then. My research
interests are pulsating variable stars, particularly Cepheids and RR Lyrae
variables, to refine Galactic and extragalactic distance scales. I use the
telescopes at McDonald and elsewhere to obtain radial velocities, abundances,
and photometric properties of these stars. While most of my time is devoted to
research, whenever I can, I teach astronomy.
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AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy
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Ast 1623: Solar System Astronomy
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