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
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

We present the current progress in reducing noise from astronomical survey data via a new processing method. This processing method uses machine learning, and more specifically uses a certain artificial intelligence structure known as an…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Astronomy for All - All for Astronomy?
A Pilot Study of Amateur Astronomy Community Attitudes and Experiences

There is a growing body of work on equality, diversity and inclusivity within professional Astronomy. But literature for…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Turbulent density fluctuations are investigated in the solar wind at sub-ion scales using calibrated spacecraft potential. The measurement technique using the spacecraft potential allows for a much higher time resolution and sensitivity when…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics

Neutron stars (NS) are exotic state of matter with the highest possible density and
compactness in the observable universe, making them valuable laboratories for
studying such an extreme state of matter. They are of high interest…

Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Geophysics

Studying lunar mineralogy provides information about the Moon’s origin and evolution. Of particular interest is the presence of absorbed lunar water or water-like molecules(H2O/OH) and its implications for the volatile inventory available to…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

We have searched for detached low-mass eclipsing binaries (LMEBs) in the Catalina Sky Survey to determine their orbital and physical parameters and study the radius anomaly problem found in such systems. Here we present our results, where we have…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astrophysics
  • Earth Science
  • Planetary Atmospheres

UV radiation and energetic particles are harmful for life, leading to the destruction of biomolecules. But has this always been the case? What role did these high-energy processes play in the formation of the first organic molecules in the…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

During the formation of a low mass star, it goes through a phase of evolution known as the T Tauri phase, characterized by a forming star, which is contracting due to its own gravity, surrounded by a circumstellar disk. Stars in this phase have…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Data Science
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Remote Sensing
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Over the past 50 years, a variety of instruments have obtained images of the Sun’s magnetic field (magnetograms) to study its origin and evolution. While improvements in instrumentation have led to breakthroughs in our understanding of physical…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Compact, continuously launched jets in black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) produce radio to optical–infrared (OIR) synchrotron emission. These jets are launched in the hard X-ray state and are quenched in the soft state. The compact jets are…