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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Heidi Thiemann - Red novae candidates: An investigation of long-period near-contact giant eclipsing binaries
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

We have identified a set of candidate stars that appear to be long-period examples of near-contact eclipsing binary stars, with orbital periods of up to a month or more. To be in contact, or near contact, at such long periods requires the stellar…

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Hiroyuki Tako ISHIKAWA - Elemental Abundances of M dwarfs Based on High-resolution Near-infrared Spectra
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry

M dwarf is the smallest and coolest type of the main sequence star. Thanks to their small mass and size, and low luminosity, they have the advantage to detect planets using RV and transit methods, as well as to characterize small planets in the…

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Hongying Chen - Searching for obscured AGN in z~2 SMGs
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy

Submillimetre-selected galaxies (SMGs) at high redshift (z ~ 2) are potential host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). If the local universe is a good guide, ~ 50% of the dust-obscured AGN amongst the SMG population could be missed even in…

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Hugh Harkins - The Oort Cloud – Solar System or Beyond?
Recent Graduate
  • Astrophysics
  • Solar system science

The Oort Cloud – Solar System or Beyond?

The objective of this paper is to stimulate thinking on our current understanding of the theorised Oort Cloud (this has not been directly observed) as defined in relation to our Solar System.
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Ignacio del Moral-Castro - Do active galaxies “dance” differently than their twins?
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The majority of galaxies, including our Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their centre. These SMBHs have masses of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun and a basic influence on the evolution of their host galaxies.…

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Ildar Khabibullin - Galactic Centre X-ray Time-Lapse: 3D, HD, polarised
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics

Reflection of X-ray emission on molecular clouds in the Galactic Center has established itself as a powerful tool for joint exploration of the past Sgr A*'s activity and properties of the dense gas distribution under extreme conditions of…

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ILHUIYOLITZIN VILLICANA PEDRAZA - Submm extragalactic line surveys of near galaxies
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (tertiary)

I studied an extragalactic spectra line survey at 1mm of the nearby galaxies NGC 253, NGC 4945 and Arp 220 using APEX.I found 150 transitions from 26 molecules for the starburst NGC 253, 136 transitions of 24 molecules for the Seyfert 2 NGC 4945…

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Ilija Medan - Improved Photometric Metallicity Relationships for K/M Dwarfs from APOGEE Spectra
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Data Science

The chemical properties of stars are normally derived from spectroscopic measurements, where such properties can give astronomers a glimpse into the environment in which these stars were born. However, this method can be difficult and more time…

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Iraj Vaezzadeh - How does a second minor merger affect the sloshing cold fronts in a galaxy cluster?
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Galaxy clusters grow through colliding and merging with other clusters and groups of galaxies. Minor mergers are relatively common and create sloshing cold fronts in the ICM of the host cluster, which are seen as sharp discontinuities in X-ray…

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Isobel Romero-Shaw - Searching for Eccentricity: signatures of dynamical formation in the first gravitational-wave transient catalogue of LIGO and Virgo
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

In 2015, Advanced LIGO made the first detection of gravitational waves. We now detect gravitational waves on a nearly weekly basis. The signals we observe come from coalescing compact binaries, which can be formed in numerous scenarios.…

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