Jeff Bary

BS, Emory & Henry College, 1995; PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2003

Colgate Courses

• Core Appalachia (UNST 1xx)
• How Old is the Universe? (ASTR 165)
• Intermediate Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASTR 210)
• Astrophysics (ASTR 414)
• Introductory Astronomy: The Solar System (ASTR 101)
• Introductory Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, & The Universe (ASTR 102)
• General Physics II: Introduction to Mechanics (PHYS 232)
• Saving the Appearances: Galileo, the Church, and the Scientific Endeavor (FSEM/CoreSP)
• In the Footsteps of Galileo (UNST 106ES)

University of Virginia; Vanderbilt University

Learning Video Game Development

​At Play in the Cosmos - The Videogame (W. W. Norton & Company with GEAR Learning, 2017)

At Play in the Cosmos is a first-of-its-kind resource in astronomy education. Authors Jeff Bary (Colgate University) and Adam Frank (University of Rochester) worked with the nonprofit Learning Games Network to develop a mission-based online videogame where students can fly up to twenty missions that span the entire scope of introductory astronomy from basic physics to cosmology.

At Play in the Cosmos received the Games for Change and Mashable People's Choice Award in 2017.

Infrared and optical spectroscopy of young sun-like stars

• 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

• "The Effect of Starspots on Spectroscopic Age and Mass Estimates of Non-Accreting T Tauri Stars in the Taurus-Auriga Star Forming Region" Peréz Paolino, F.*, Bary, J. S., Hillenbrand, L., & Markham, M.* 2024, ApJ, in press
• "Correlating Changes in Spot Filling Factors with Stellar Rotation: The Case of LkCa 4" Peréz Paolino, F.*, Bary, J. S., Petersen, M., Tofflemire, B. & Follette, K. 2023, ApJ, 946, 10
• "Near-Infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 AB(b)" Betti, S., Follette, K. B., Ward-Duong, K., Aoyama, Y., Marleau, G. -D., Bary, J., Robinson, C., Janson, M., Balmer, W., Chauvin, G., & Palma-Bifani, P. 2022, ApJL, 935, L18
• "A Search for Spatially Resolved Infrared Rovibrational Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Disks of Young Stars" Beck, T. L. & Bary, J. S. 2019, ApJ, 884, 159
• "Possible Planet Formation in the Young, Low-mass, Multiple Stellar System GG Tau A" Dutrey, A., Di Folco, E., Guilloteau, S., Boehler, Y., Bary, J., Beck, T., Beust, H., Chapillon, E., Gueth, F., Hure, J., Pierens, A., Pietu, V., Simon, M., & Tang, Y. 2014, Nature, 514, 600
• "Anomalous Accretion Activity and the Spotted Nature of the DQ Tau Binary System" Bary, J. S. & Petersen, M. S. 2014, ApJ, 792, 64
• "GG Tau: The Fifth Element" DiFolco, E., Dutrey, A., Le Bouquin, J., Lacour, S., Berger, J., Kohler, R., Guilloteau, S., Pietu, V., Bary, J., Beck, T., Beust, H., & Pantin, E. 2014, A&A, 565, L2
• "Circumbinary Ring, Circumstellar Disks, and Accretion in the Binary System UY Aurigae" Tang, Ya-Wen, Dutrey, A., Guilloteau, S., Pietu, V., Di Folco, E., Beck, T., Ho, P., Boehler, Y., Gueth, F., Bary, J., & Simon, M. 2014, A&A, in press
• "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

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

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 2005-2008 
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia, 2004-2005

• Sweet Family Endowed Chair 
• Colgate Founders' Day Convocation 2019 Keynote Speaker
• Emory & Henry College Young Alumnus of the Year, 2010
• NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-08
• NSF GK-12 Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2002-03
• AAPT -- Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2002
• Vanderbilt College of Arts & Sciences -- teaching assistant of the year nominee, 2002