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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Jack Reid - MHD avalanches: heating the solar corona
Recent Graduate
  • Solar system science

A long-standing question in solar physics, the coronal heating problem asks why the solar atmosphere becomes millions of degrees hotter further away from the Sun's surface.
Eugene Parker conjectures that the corona may be heated by the…

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Jaime Callejon Hierro - Flux Rope Visualizing Tool to Link Local and Global Views
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Solar system science

The entrained magnetic structure associated with Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the main drivers of geomagnetic activity. Thus, a reliable prediction of the ICME internal magnetic field structure is a requisite for developing a robust space…

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James Angthopo - Novel way of defining transitioning galaxies
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Galaxy formation and evolution is an important field in Astrophysics with many
unanswered questions. The two important questions we focus on are what physical
processes are associated with galaxy evolution and how quickly these…

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James Blake - DebrisWatch: Eyes on the sky
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Earth Science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Satellites have played an instrumental role in most aspects of modern life since the formative years of the Space Age. One region of particular importance is the so-called ‘Clarke Belt’ of geostationary orbits, a name paying homage to Arthur C.…

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James E. McKevitt - Multiphysics feasibility study of an aerial-aquatic spacecraft’s plunge into Kraken Mare
Recent Graduate
  • Astrobiology
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Introduction

The lakes, dunes and atmosphere of Titan mapped by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft require further exploration to understand the origin and evolution of Titan and the Saturnian system. The NASA Dragonfly mission, launching in…

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James O. Chibueze - First evidence of interaction between relativistic electrons and compressed magnetic field of a merging galaxy cluster
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astrophysics

We report on the discovery of an interaction between relativistic electrons and intracluster magnetic field around radio galaxy in a violent merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376. Abell 3376 hosts a density contact discontinuity at the central region…

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James Pearson - Strong Lensing with Neural Networks
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

Strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lensing is the distortion of the paths of light rays from a background galaxy into arcs or rings as viewed from Earth, caused by the gravitational field of an intervening foreground lens galaxy. Lensing provides…

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Jaroslav Merc - New Online Database of Symbiotic Variables
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Symbiotic stars belong to an interesting group of interacting binaries that display a wide variety of phenomena including prominent outbursts connected with mass transfer, stellar winds, and jets, eclipses, or intrinsic variability of the…

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Jasmine Kaur Sandhu - Radial Diffusion During Geomagnetic Storms
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

The radiation belts are populations of highly energetic particles that are situated in the Earth’s space environment and trapped by our global geomagnetic field. During active periods, the radiation belts experience dramatic structural changes…

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Javier Sanchez Gonzalez - Sonifying the brightness of the stars
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Design and testing of device to soundly reproduce the light from the stars, obtaining a similarity
between light and sound. Initially designed for the inclusion of blind people in Astronomy.
This device consists of a light sensor, a…

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