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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Sandra Baumgartner - Towards a Polarisation Prediction for LISA via Intensity Interferometry
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Space Science and Instrumentation
  • Theoretical Physics

Compact Galactic binary systems with orbital periods of a few hours are expected to be detected in gravitational waves (GW) by LISA or a similar mission. At present, these so-called verification binaries provide predictions for GW frequency and…

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Saniya Khan - The red-giant branch bump: towards a better understanding of convective boundary mixing
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Because stars are opaque, studies of their internal structure have, until recently, been restricted to indirect inferences based on observations of their outer layers. That is, until the “space photometry revolution” led by telescopes CoRoT,…

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Sarah Jaffa - Star formation is chaotic!
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Simulations are a powerful tool to test our theoretical understanding of astrophysical processes. Star formation involves the interplay of many complex processes such including gravity, turbulence, chemistry, magnetic fields and stellar feedback…

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Sarah Villanova Borges - A Magnetic White Dwarf Accretion Model for the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

The quiescent emission of the anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 extends over a broad range of energy. Despite the many propositions to explain this wide range of emission, it still lacks one that reproduces all the observations. Filling…

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Sarah White - The brightest radio-sources in the southern sky
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Powerful radio-galaxies feature heavily in our understanding of galaxy evolution. However, when it comes to studying their properties as a function of redshift and/or environment, the most-detailed studies tend to be limited by small-number…

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Saugata Barat - Characterizing multiwavelength outburst of blazars
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Blazars are a class of Active Galactic Nuclei(AGN) with their jets pointed at
small angles towards our line of sight. Blazars are known to exhibit variability from
timescales of days to weeks to years. Blazars are also known to be…

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Seong-Yeop Jeong - A Quasi-Linear Diffusion Model for Resonant Wave-Particle Instability in Homogeneous Plasma
Student (postgraduate)
  • Solar system science
  • Theoretical Physics

We develop a model to describe the generalized wave-particle instability in a quasi-neutral plasma. We analyze the quasi-linear diffusion equation for particles by expressing an arbitrary unstable and resonant wave mode as a Gaussian wave packet…

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Shannon Jones - The Visual Complexity of Coronal Mass Ejections
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Remote Sensing
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), or solar storms, are huge eruptions of particles and magnetic field from the Sun. With the help of 4,028 citizen scientists, we found that the appearance of CMEs changes over the solar cycle, with CMEs appearing…

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Shreeya Shetye - Determining the luminosity of the third dredge-up via S stars: The promise of Gaia
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry

S-type stars are late-type giants enhanced with s-process elements originating either
from nucleosynthesis during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) or from a pollution
by a binary companion. The former are called intrinsic S stars,…

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Shruti Badole - VLA and ALMA observations of the lensed radio-quiet quasar SDSS J0924+0219: a molecular structure in a 3 µJy radio source.
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of SDSS J0924+0219, a z = 1.524 radio-quiet lensed quasar with an intrinsic radio flux density of about 3 μJy. The four lensed images are…

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