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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Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are powered by black holes as massive as billons of the Sun. Young and powerful radio AGNs are often compact symmetric objects (CSOs) with double-lobed structures confined to within 1 kpc. They represent the earliest…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Planetary Atmospheres

The present poster is about the radio emissions of lightning in the atmospheres of Saturn and Uranus. These planets have such incredibly dynamic atmospheres that they are suitable objects for studying extraterrestrial lightning by means of low-…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Using the Geneva stellar evolution code, we have developed a new grid of zero-metallicity models for masses 9-120 solar masses including models with initial rotation of 40% of critical velocity. We analyse the evolution of the interior structure…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

Once a star, similar to our Sun, ceases fusing hydrogen, it will undergo a violent stage of stellar evolution resulting in the production of a small, hot and dense stellar core. This is a white dwarf. It has been demonstrated that although the…

Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

This poster focuses on bridging the gap between solar and stellar physics through the study of flares. Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system and many stellar flares have been observed to be orders of magnitudes larger…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The detection of the binary neutron star merger (BNS) GW170817 and its electromagnetic (EM) counterparts marked the first joint gravitational wave-electromagnetic observations. The use of gravitational wave triggers is the most promising strategy…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

In the local Universe, dense clusters of galaxies have a striking over-abundance of red-and-dead spheroidal galaxies compared to star-forming disks. This is widely known as the the morphology-density relationship. However, the physical mechanisms…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Space Science and Instrumentation
  • Theoretical Physics

Formed in gravitational core-collapse supernovae explosions, neutron stars are the most compact stars known in the universe: their average density exceeds than that found in atomic nuclei. The properties of the dense matter contained in their…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Solar system science

On the Sun’s surface, many of the observed features such as solar flares, result from the interaction between the magnetic field and surrounding plasmas. A highly tangled bundle of magnetic field lines may spontaneously reconnect, release energy…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Solar system science

On the Sun’s surface, many of the observed features such as solar flares, result from the interaction between the magnetic field and surrounding plasmas. A highly tangled bundle of magnetic field lines may spontaneously reconnect, release energy…