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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Tarraneh Eftekhari - Late-time Radio and Millimeter Observations of Superluminous Supernovae and Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

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Thamiris de Santana - Daphnis and its chaotic motion
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Solar system science

Saturn’s moon Daphnis’ is located inside the Keeler gap at a distance around 136505 km. Astrometry made with Cassini images shows that Daphnis changed orbit twice during the mission, sometime during late 2010, then early 2016. We investigate…

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Thomas Cross - A large-scale approach to modelling Biosignatures: First Steps
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology

A large-scale approach to modelling Biosignatures: First Steps
by Thomas Cross , Marco Pignatari, David M. Benoit and Brad K. Gibson
E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hull

For this poster I will be presenting…

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Thomas Davison - Growing a Galaxy, Exploring Merger and Accretion History with Galactic Archaeology
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

In the past decade Integral Field Spectroscopy has expanded with the development of large FoV spectrographs. These instruments enable the simultaneous measurement of high signal-to-noise spectra out to large galactocentric distances, delivering…

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Thomas Spriggs - Exploring the Galactic Centre Planetary Nebular Populations Within the Fornax Cluster,Using VLT/MUSE Spectrograph.
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The study of Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in other galaxies offers a view into the late stages of stellar evolution in galactic environments that are considerably different compared to that of the Milky Way. For instance, the specific number of PNe is…

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Thomas Williams - Observing GMC Scale Star Formation in M33
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy

This poster presents two of the projects I undertook as part of my PhD, looking at star formation and the interstellar medium in one of the most nearby spiral galaxies, M33. The first is a study of the star formation law, which relates the gas…

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Thomas Woolley - Solar Wind Proton Behaviour inside Magnetic Field Switchbacks
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Parker Solar Probe measured ubiquitous magnetic field reversals, known as switchbacks, in the near-Sun solar wind during its first two orbits. These switchbacks appear to occur in patches and could be linked to phenomena near the solar surface,…

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Tiaan Bezuidenhout - Radio interferometry and single pulse localisation
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy

The next generation of large-scale radio interferometers are coming to fruition, and have already delivered great dividends in searches for radio transients like Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). However, such instruments produce enormous amounts of data…

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Ting-Yun Cheng - What a Machine see? 
 — Exploring Galaxy Morphology with Unsupervised Machine Learning
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

Galaxy morphology are strongly connected with the stellar properties and the formation history of galaxies. For a century, galaxy morphologies are categorised based on their visual appearance. However, this kind of visual classification systems…

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Tobias Géron - Strong and weak bars in Galaxy Zoo
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Galaxy bars are very ubiquitous structures in the Universe. Observational studies report that between 30%-70% of galaxies host bars. In addition, it has been known that they can influence their galaxy by moving mass inwards and angular momentum…

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