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 overload is a primary challenge current astronomers face. With the next generation of telescopes, there will soon be an explosion of data and processing data will no longer be feasible to do ’manually’. I created a program to aid the process…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy

I have worked on the thermodynamic structure of galaxy cluster Abell 2069 and Abell 1995. We have analyzed Chandra X-ray data for clusters of galaxies A2069 and A1995 to create thermodynamic maps (temperature, flux density, pseudo-pressure and…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

Estimates of the lifetimes and inferred accretion rates of debris discs around polluted white dwarfs are often inconsistent with the limits predicted by the effect of shielded Poynting-Robertson drag. Moreover, many cool polluted white dwarfs do…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Data Science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Rapid identification of transients that evolve on short timescales is important to understanding the physics and to testing current models surrounding these astrophysical phenomena. In the advent of the wide-field survey era, solutions to…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Solar system science

Magnetic reconnection is thought to lie at the heart of energy release in solar flares, but the process is not yet fully understood. We examine spectropolarimetric data from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) coronagraph, acquired a few…

Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Data Science
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

We present a freely-available model of the power found in ultra-low frequency waves (ULF, 1-15 mHz) throughout Earth’s magnetosphere. Predictions can be compared to observations to test our understanding of Magnetospheric dynamics, while accurate…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

In recent years, observations of protoplanetary discs — the birthplace of planets around stars — have revealed that substructure in the form of rings and gaps, often assumed to result from planet-disc interactions, are common even in young discs…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

We report photometric observations of the BRI 0021, obtained with GUFI. BRI 0021 was shown to exhibit modulated emission with a period of 3.052 ± 0.006 hrs. Our rotation period with other parameters gives an inclination angle of 51.6 degrees for…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Neutral hydrogen atoms illuminate structures not traced by stars. They are detectable by the so-called 21cm hyperfine transition – The HI line. The study of the HI component of galaxies gives us an insight into their evolution over cosmic time,…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Earth Science

We investigate the potential for terrestrial material (i.e., terrestrial meteorites) to be transferred to the Moon by a large impact on Earth and subsequently survive impact with the lunar surface, using computer modelling. Due to the near…