Early Career Poster Exhibition

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RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition 2020

With NAM cancelled this year, the RAS are hosting an online poster exhibition for early career researchers, professionals, and students from across astronomy and geophysics.

Here you’ll find over 200 posters spanning a wide range of topics from black holes to active galactic nuclei, to Mars missions and outreach and education.

Posters are searchable by their authors, and research field tags.

Please take your time to look at the submissions, and get in touch with the authors!

We encourage you to tweet about the exhibition using the hashtag #RASposter2020. Please note that any communications relating to the exhibition must adhere to RAS Code of Conduct, available here.

A senior team of astronomers and geophysicists are judging the submissions based on the quality of the content, communication and design. Winners of the competition will be announced back here in November 2020.

Thanks for visiting and please do show your support for the early career researchers by sharing their submissions, and asking questions!

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Alexander C. Jenkins - Primordial black holes from cusp collapse on cosmic strings
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are of fundamental interest in Cosmology and Astrophysics, and have received much attention as a dark matter candidate and as a potential source of gravitational waves. One possible PBH formation mechanism is the…

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Alice Townsend - Type IIn Supernova
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The aim of this project was to analyse the light curves of several Type IIn supernovae and calculate a volumetric rate. Type II supernovae are the explosions of massive stars at the end of their lifetime. For Type IIn supernovae (a sub-type of…

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Allard Valentin - Entrainment effects in neutron-proton mixtures in neutron star cores
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Neutrons stars are leftovers of supernovae and contain crushed matter at densities up to those exceeding the atomic nuclei. Such compact stars are good laboratories to study new states of matter which are impossible to recreate on Earth. In…

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Alvina Yee Lian On - Seeing and measuring the invisible: cosmic magnetic fields
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous, permeating across all scales from interstellar space to cosmic voids. Yet their origins and evolution remain as open questions. On galactic scales and beyond, Faraday rotation measure (RM) at radio wavelengths is…

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Ana Luisa González Morán - Independent Cosmological Constraints from high-z HII Galaxies
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science

We present independent determinations of cosmological parameters using a distance estimator based on the established correlation between the Balmer emission line velocity dispersion and luminosity for HIIG. These were obtained using new high…

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Ana Torreres Campos - Formal Astronomy Teaching in Primary School
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)

I present inspiring results from my experience teaching Astronomy as a formal class in a primary public school in Mexico. I have developed a methodology to teach Astronomy through games, handcrafts and playful activities. I tested this…

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Andrew Allan - PHL 293B: The Possible Disappearance of a Massive Star
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

To better understand massive stars in low metallicity environments, we used the VLT’s ESPRESSO and X-Shooter instruments to observe the dwarf galaxy PHL293B. Excitingly, we find the sudden disappearance of the dominant stellar signature from our…

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Andy S.H. To - Anomalous Evolution of Plasma Composition During a Small Solar Flare
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Elemental abundances in the solar corona are different from those in the photosphere and the differences seem to be strongly modulated by the magnetic field and magnetic activity. Elemental abundances of easy-to-ionise low-FIP elements are…

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Andy Smith - Magnetic Fluctuations at Substorm Onset
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Magnetospheric substorms are a cycle of energy storage and release in the Earth’s magnetosphere. The growth phase describes the storage of energy, generated through the interaction of the Earth’s magnetic field with the field carried by the…

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Anirban Bairagi - Gravitational Waves Detection and Glitch Classification using Convolutional Neural Network
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

Gravitational Waves are ripples in space-time produced by the bulk accelerated motion of matter. When GW passes through the detector it causes strain in the detector arms and GW detector data records the strain observed at different times.…

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