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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Ray Fernando Hidalgo Ramírez - Solar Activity and VLBI-Length of Day
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Earth Science

The non-uniform rotation of the Earth is caused by various agents such as fluid motions in the core, mass redistribution, ocean and atmosphere motions. This non-uniform rotation results in fluctuations in the Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP),…

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Rebeca Marina Barcenilla - AromAtom: A creative approach to space science outreach and public engagement.
Student (postgraduate)
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)

Introduction: ‘AromAtom: The Smell of Space’ is a student-led science outreach project, designed to engage the public with what are often seen as difficult subjects – space exploration, planetary science, Astronomy and Geophysics. Whilst much of…

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Rebecca Humble - Investigation of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Geophysics
  • Earth Science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

In 2019, I completed a Physics Undergraduate Research Project at Nottingham Trent University, where I underwent an investigation into the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly.
Due to the differing positions of the Earth’s axis and magnetic pole…

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Reetu - Calculations on the adsorption on C, O, and N atoms on Graphene
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Cosmochemistry

H2 is one of the most important molecules in the interstellar medium. It plays a pivotal role in the interstellar chemistry through reaction with ions and radicals. Furthermore, the energetics of the H2 formation reaction directly affect the…

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Reka Konyves-Toth - Comparative Spectral Analysis of the Superluminous Supernova 2019neq
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

A new class of exploding stars, the so-called superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), was discovered and intensely studied in the past two decades. The brightness of these extremely luminous events exceed ~100 times the brightness of the normal…

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Rhys Thompson - Pro-L*: A probabilistic L* mapping tool for ground observations in the radiation belts
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Both ground and space observations are used extensively in the
modelling of space weather processes within the Earth's magnetosphere. In radiation belt physics modelling, one of the key phase-space coordinates is L*, which indicates…

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Richa Kundu - Globular clusters from the Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal galaxy
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy is a satelite of the Milky Way. Martı́nez-Delgado et al. (2002) detected two tidal debris in the northern streams of the Sgr dSph galaxy suggesting that the Sgr dSph and Milky Way halo are merging…

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Roan Haggar - Backsplash galaxies in simulations of galaxy clusters
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

A large fraction of galaxies are found in groups or clusters, meaning that an understanding of galaxy clusters is crucial in studying galaxy evolution, large-scale structure formation and Cosmology. This work utilises The Three Hundred Project, a…

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Rob Spaargaren - The effects of terrestrial exoplanet bulk composition on long-term planet evolution
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Geophysics

With more observations of terrestrial exoplanets becoming available, the importance of geodynamical studies focusing on exoplanets is increasing. We know from observations that stellar chemical abundances vary in the Solar neighbourhood, and this…

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Rose Waugh - Supporting stellar clouds within the stellar wind
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Solar system science

Stellar “prominences” are clouds of coronal plasma, supported above the stellar surface by the stellar magnetic field. On young Suns (rapidly rotating low mass stars) they have been observed to be 10-100 times the mass of Solar prominences, and…

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