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Aaron Barth Associate Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine Office:  2172 Frederick Reines Hall Phone: (949) 824-3013 Email:  barth [(at)] uci dot edu CV [pdf] UCI Faculty Profile Page I am an observational astronomer, and my research is focused on the structure and dynamics of galaxies, the detection of supermassive black holes in galaxy centers, and the properties of active galactic nuclei and quasars. News and recent developments: New release of ATV software: now with one-click spectral extractions Postdoc Misty Bentz awarded a 2009 Hubble Fellowship UC Irvine Center for Cosmology workshop on Intermediate-Mass Black Holes was held April 1-3, 2009: pdf versions of talks available here First results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project published in ApJ Letters My work uses data collected at a variety of ground-based and space-based observatories: Keck Observatory Lick Observatory Hubble Space Telescope Chandra X-ray Observatory XMM-Newton Observatory Spitzer Space Telescope Las Campanas Observatory Palomar Observatory Project websites: The Carnegie-Irvine Nearby Galaxies Survey (under construction) Locally useful information: Computing resources for UCI undergraduate and graduate students in astrophysics. UCI Remote observing instructions My research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA. [UC Irvine]      [Department of Physics and Astronomy]      [UCI Center for Cosmology]