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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Mara Leite - Analysis of Human-Commensal Microbes ​at a Mars Analogue Habitat
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Exobiology

Background: With plans for crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades, forward contamination and planetary protection are becoming increasingly important topics in Planetary Science and Astrobiology. Forward contamination, the delivery of…

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Marco C Lam - AutomatedSpectroPhotometricImageREDuction
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Time-domain Astrophysics is entering its golden age with a number of new telescopes coming online, generating large volume of high cadence quality data. Rapid follow-up of the transient astronomical events discovered by them are essential to…

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Marcos Tidball - Deepfuse: Detecting Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with Convolutional Neural Networks
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (LSBGs) are believed to be a significant portion of the matter in the local Universe, with many questions about them still left unanswered. A big problem when it comes to studying these objects is how challenging…

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María Alejandra Díaz Teodori - Astronomy and Sustainability
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach

In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim to create a sustainable future for humanity by 2030. How can Astronomy help meet these goals? As a scientific field, Astronomy is in a very…

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Marios Kalomenopoulos, Sadegh Khochfar, Jonathan Gair, Arai Shun - Studying inhomogeneous universes and modified gravity with Standard Sirens
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics

In our project, we investigate gravitational waves (GWs) that have an electromagnetic (E/M) counterpart as probes for the inhomogeneities in the universe, and the possible degeneracy of the latter with modified gravity theories. In this poster,…

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Mark Kennedy - Untangling the spider’s web: determining the masses of pulsars in binary systems
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

One of the most important challenges in modern Astrophysics is to determine the equation of state for neutron stars. An obvious method of narrowing which equations may be valid is by looking for exceptionally heavy neutron stars (> 2 M☉). For…

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Marta Florido-Llinas - Analysis of the Helical Kink Instability of Differently Twisted Magnetic Flux Ropes
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Space Science and Instrumentation
  • Theoretical Physics

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are usually considered to be the magnetic structure that dominates the transport of helicity from the Sun into the heliosphere. They entrain a confined plasma within a helically organized magnetic structure and are able…

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Mary Geer Dethero - A first look at convective overshooting in hydrodynamic simulations of the F-type eclipsing binary BW Aquarii
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Using a realistic stratification in density, temperature, and luminosity obtained from the stellar evolution code MESA (Lester and Gies, 2018), we produce global multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with the MUSIC code. These MESA models…

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Mathilde Gaudel - The origin of star rotation
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Stellar embryos form as a result of the contraction of gaseous and dusty cores called pre-stellar cores. The embryo grows by the progressive accretion of the material of the envelope within which it is buried. In the classical scenario of star…

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Matthew C. H. Leung - DMD-Based Multi-Object Spectrograph Design and Wavelength Calibration
Student (undergraduate)
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

A multi-object spectrograph (MOS) is an instrument that can acquire the spectra of hundreds of astrophysical objects simultaneously, saving on observing time since more data can be acquired. In the recent years, a component called the digital…

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