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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Anjali Piette - Thermal and Radiative Conditions in Mini-Neptune Atmospheres
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing

Atmospheric observations of mini-Neptunes orbiting M-dwarfs are beginning to provide constraints on their chemical and thermal properties, while also providing clues about their interiors and potential surfaces. With their relatively large scale…

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Anke van Dyk - Capturing Transients: An application of Biostatistics to Astronomy
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Data Science

Name: Anke van Dyk
Presentation Title: Capturing Transients

We aim to transcribe the Capture-Recapture methodology for Astronomy. Capture-Recapture is a well-established method within the fields of biostatistics for the study of…

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Ankit Singh - Tremulous beads on the web
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The environment of a galaxy is described by the distribution of other galaxies in its neighbourhood. The environment of galaxies is crucial to its evolution. Large-scale environment is known to influence galaxy observables like colours, rate of…

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Ankur Nath. Co-authors: Biplob Sarkar, Jayashree Roy, Ranjeev Misra - Detection of a Type-1 X-ray thermonuclear burst from GX 3+1 through AstroSat
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

We present the results of an observation of the low mass X-ray binary GX 3+1with the LAXPC and SXT instrument abroad AstroSat. During this observation for total exposure of ∼100 ks, GX 3+1 has showed one thermonuclear burst, which hasthe status…

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Anne Buckner - INDICATE: A novel tool to robustly study the star formation history of a cluster
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

INDICATE is a powerful new tool employing a novel approach to provide a quantitative measure of the clustering behaviours of individual objects in a dataset within a user-defined parameter space. As such it can be used in a wide array of…

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Anne Buckner - A HOLOtta Fun: Using 3D Holograms for STEM Outreach
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach

Outreach can be difficult at the best of times - after all Astronomy is a complex, and intrinsically abstract topic. Under normal circumstances an entry level talk with 2D telescope images is often the go-to for public dissemination of research.…

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Anton Baleato Lizancos - Biases to CMB lensing and delensing
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Theoretical Physics

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), relic radiation emitted when the Universe was only 380,000 years old, is the oldest light we can observe. Hidden in the curl pattern of its polarisation is information about the physics of the Universe much…

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ARAVIND K - Spectroscopic and Imaging study of the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov from two Indian observatories
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Solar system science

After the pioneering work by Oort (1950), it is believed that long-period comets (orbital period greater than 200 years) are originated in the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical spherical reservoir surrounding the Solar system at about a distance of 1000…

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Ares Osborn - TOI-431: a super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with an additional RV planet candidate
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

We present the bright (Vmag= 9.12), multi-planet system TOI-431, characterised with photometry from TESS, LCOGT, NGTS and Spitzer, and radial velocities from HARPS, iSHELL, FEROS, and MINERVA-Australis.
TOI-431 b is a super-Earth with…

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Ariel Chitan - The Evolution of Triple Black Hole Systems
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

The evolution of triple black hole systems was studied with emphasis placed on the effect of mass and distance of the black holes. Initial conditions followed from Valtonen et al. (1995) where black holes were placed at the vertices of…

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