Light Pollution
Towards future challenges in the measurement and modelling of night sky brightness
J. Barentine, S. Wallner, M. Kocifaj. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023). stad3538. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3538 |
Measuring and monitoring light pollution: Current approaches and challenges
M. Kocifaj, S. Wallner, J. Barentine. Science (2023) 380(6650), 1121-1124. doi: 10.1126/science.adg0473 |
Aggregate Effects of Proliferating LEO Objects and Implications for Astronomical Data Lost in the Noise
J. Barentine, A. Venkatesan, J. Heim, J. Lowenthal, M. Kocifaj, S. Bará, Nature Astronomy (2023), 7, 252-258. doi: 10.1038/s41550-023-01904-2 |
Artificial Light at Night: State of the Science 2022
J. Barentine for the International Dark-Sky Association (2022) doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6903500 |
Night Sky Brightness Measurement, Quality Assessment and Monitoring
J. Barentine. Nature Astronomy (2022), 6, 1120–1132. doi: 10.1038/s41550-022-01756-2 |
Air pollution mitigation can reduce the brightness of the night sky in and near cities
M. Kocifaj & J. Barentine. Nature Scientific Reports (2021), 11:14622. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-94241-1 |
A Case for a New Satellite Mission for Remote Sensing of Night Lights
J. Barentine, K. Walczak, G. Gyuk, C. Tarr & T. Longcore, Remote Sensing (2021), rs13122294. doi:10.3390/rs13122294 |
Recovering the city street lighting fraction from skyglow measurements in a large-scale municipal dimming experiment.
J. Barentine et al, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2020), 253, 107120. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107120 |
Methods for Assessment and Monitoring of Light Pollution around Ecologically Sensitive Sites
J. Barentine, Journal of Imaging (2019), 5(5), 54. doi:10.3390/jimaging5050054 |
Skyglow Changes Over Tucson, Arizona, Resulting From A Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversion
J. Barentine et al., Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2018), 212, 10. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.038 |
Going for the Gold: Quantifying and Ranking Visual Night Sky Quality in International Dark Sky Places
J. Barentine, International Journal of Sustainable Lighting (2016), 35, 1, 9. doi:10.26607/ijsl.v18i0.16 |
Science Policy
Regulating Human Activities in the Final Frontier: Towards a Nature-Centered 'Space Jurisprudence'
Proceedings of the 2023 ILAS-HUFS HK+ 3rd International Conference (2023) No doi. |
Reimagining Near-Earth Space Policy in a Post-COVID World
J. Barentine, J. Heim, A. Venkatesan, J. Lowenthal, M. Vidaurri, Virginia Policy Review (2022), 15(1), 58-86. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6903583 |
Astronomy
‘A Dignity That Insures Their Perpetuation’: Obsolete Constellations and the Making of the Modern Night Sky
J. Barentine, Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 (2021), Pen and Sword Books. doi: TBD |
The Role Of Gas In Galaxy Evolution: Infall, Star Formation, And Internal Structure
J. Barentine, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin (2013) No doi. |
A Comparative Astrochemical Study of the High Mass Protostellar Objects NGC 7538 IRS 9 and IRS 1
J. Barentine and J. Lacy, Astrophysical Journal (2012), 757, 111. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/111 |
Two Pseudobulges in the ‘Boxy Bulge’ Galaxy NGC 5746
J. Barentine and J. Kormendy, Astrophysical Journal (2012), 754, 140. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/140 |
Detection of a Pseudobulge Hidden Inside the ‘Box-shaped Bulge’ of NGC 4565
J. Kormendy and J. Barentine, Astrophysical Journal Letters (2010), 715, 176. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/140 |
Barnard’s Merope Nebula (IC 349): an Interstellar Interloper
J. Barentine and G. Esquerdo, Astronomical Journal (1999), 117, 1402. doi:10.1086/300760 |