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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Lord Dover - Physical modelling of near-Earth asteroid (23187) 2000 PN9 from optical and radar observations
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Solar system science

We are conducting an observing campaign with a sample of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) to detect YORP-induced acceleration. Photometric lightcurves from small to medium optical telescopes are used to detect changes to spin state. Where available,…

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Lori-Ann Foley - Is there ice on Mars?
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Solar system science

Is there ice on Mars? Yes. But where is it now, how did it get there and where will it go? The water cycle is a crucial element of the Martian climate, past and present, and it has a significant effect on the planet’s geology. The water cycle…

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Louise Breuval - Measuring Astronomical Distances with Pulsating Stars: from Cepheids in the Milky Way to the Hubble Constant
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

Cepheids are peculiar stars: their luminosity vary in time with a constant period ranging from a few days up to about sixty days. They are particularly useful tools for measuring astronomical distances, thanks to the empirical relation between…

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Lu Li - Dynamical interaction in stellar cluster — Evidence from binaries in NGC 3532
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

The binary properties of open clusters place crucial constraints on star formation theory and clusters' dynamical evolution. We develop a comprehensive approach that models the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) distribution of the members of a…

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Lucy Oswald - Pulsar polarimetry with the Parkes ultra-wideband receiver
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Pulsar radio emission and its polarization are observed to evolve with frequency. This frequency dependence is key to the emission mechanism and the structure of the radio beam. With the new ultra-wideband receiver (UWL) on the Parkes radio…

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Luz Ángela García - A novel early dark energy model
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics
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Madhu Sudan Paudel - STUDY OF DUST NEBULA AROUND THE WHITE DWARF 0352-049 IN INFRARED ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE MAP
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

In this work I have studied the far infrared spectra of the dust structure around the White Dwarf 0352-049 available in Sky view virtual observatory (http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov) in Infrared…

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Maeve Doyle - Building Ireland's First Satellite
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)
  • Space Education (tertiary)
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

The Educational Irish Research Satellite, known as EIRSAT-1 is a 2U (1U = 10x10x10 cm^3) CubeSat being developed by an interdisciplinary student-led team at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Set to be Ireland’s first satellite, the…

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Magdalena Kersting - ‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)

‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’ - a case study of middle-school girls encountering a space science programme in the classroom

Driven by the belief that school students of all ages should be exposed to our best scientific…

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Mahbobah Ahmadi - Space in Your Living Room!
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)

Space in Your Living Room! brings astronauts, artists, space scientists and engineers, into living rooms across Europe and beyond. It is a series of fun activities, exciting challenges with amazing prizes, and live events for young people,…

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