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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Ashley Chrimes - On the Origin of Long GRB Afterglow Variety
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Gamma-ray bursts mark the spectacular explosions of massive, rapidly spinning stars. The strongly beamed jets produced are visible to us as flashes of high energy electromagnetic radiation when Earth happens to lie within the beaming angle. They…

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ATHOY NILIMA - Broadening the search for Dark Matter with LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment: Hidden Photons and Axion-Like Particles
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Motivated by possible theoretical extensions to the standard model, hidden photons (HP) are a candidate for the cold dark matter. Their possible masses cover a broad range, from 10^-12 to 10^6 eV/c2. Large scale direct detection experiments such…

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Audrey Coutens - Chemical evolution during the formation of a protoplanetary disk
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astrophysics

Significant physical changes occur during the star formation process from the cold core phase until the formation of the disk in which planets can form. These physical changes can affect the chemistry and consequently the final composition of the…

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Ayodeji ibitoye - Cross-correlation of thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich effect(Planck) and projected density field (WISE)
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

The hot ionized gas inside galaxy clusters (structures that are gravitationally bounded together) collide with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons and scatter them in an inverse Compton way.

In the process, energy is transferred…

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Beatriz Sanchez-Cano - Mars’ ionopause: a matter of pressures
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science

The ionosphere of Mars is the layer of its atmosphere where gases are separated into ions and electrons by solar radiation. The ionopause is the upper-most region where the ionosphere terminates. However, the Martian ionopause is not well-…

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Belén Yu Irureta-Goyena - Investigating a CME whodunit in preparation for Solar Orbiter
Student (undergraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions from the Sun that can have significant impacts on the Earth and the near-Earth environment. In order to prepare for the consequences of such solar activity, we must better understand how…

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Ben Snow - Mode conversion of two-fluid shocks in a partially-ionised, isothermal, stratified atmosphere
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrophysics

A compressional wave propagating upwards in the solar atmosphere naturally steepens due to the stratification of the atmosphere and can readily develop nonlinearities and shock. If the magnetic field is inclined, a shock can separate into fast-…

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Benjamin Giblin - KiDS-1000: A Gravitational Lensing Data Set
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is a multi-band optical imaging survey conducted with the 2.6m VLT Survey Telescope. KiDS measures the distortions, or ‘shear’, induced in galaxy shapes from weak gravitational lensing. The shear signal is used to…

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Bingjie Wang - Implications for the Epoch of Reionization in the Local Universe
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

The neutral intergalactic medium during the reionization of the universe precludes direct observation of ionizing Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons at these redshifts. In recent years, small samples of LyC emitters (LCEs) at low redshifts have been…

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Bonny Barkus - Using Ridgelines to Find LOFAR Hosts
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science

Cross-identification of radio sources with optical and infrared catalogues is essential for determining host properties and distances, leading to intrinsic properties such as luminosity and size; but it is also far from straight forward. For…

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