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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Cleo (Shyeh Tjing) Loi - Putting a damper on things: Mode depression in red giant stars and how ray tracing might shed some light on the role of magnetic fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

Stars are fluid bodies in which pressure, buoyancy, rotation and magnetism provide the restoring forces for wave propagation. Constructive interference of these waves generates global modes of oscillation, which can be detected through the…

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Conor Byrne - Pulsations in Faint Blue Stars
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators are a newly-discovered category of pulsating variable star, with two different sub-groups being discovered in 2017 and 2019. They show brightness variations over a time periods ranging from 3 minutes to 40 minutes,…

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Cormac Larkin - Applying UVOT data to finding new OB stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

OB stars are the most massive and hottest stars, and are important for understanding cosmic reionization sources, stellar and intermediate mass black holes and gravitational wave sources. They are of particular interest in the SMC due to its…

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Cressida Cleland - The environmental dependence of rapidly-quenching and rejuvenating galaxies
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

It has been established that as galaxies evolve, their optical colours change from blue to red. Blue galaxies are usually actively forming stars, while red galaxies are considered dead, or `quenched’. Thus, an important aspect of galaxy evolution…

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Daniel Chester - Nuclear Treaty Verification using Atmospheric Transport Modelling
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Data Science
  • Geophysics

Detection and measurement of radioactive isotopes of xenon in the atmosphere is critical to verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This is complicated, however, by the presence of a global radioxenon…

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Daniele Sorini - Probing feedback with Lyman-alpha absorption in the circumgalactic medium
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

While considerable progress has been made in the understanding of structure formation in the Universe, there are still many unresolved questions on how galaxies formed. Galaxy formation depends critically on the properties of the gaseous…

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Daryl Joe D. Santos - Environmental Effects on AGN Activities from an Extinction-Free Mid-Infrared Census
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology

The black-hole galaxy coevolution scenario remains as one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe. Studying active galactic nuclei (AGNs) which are manifestations of accretion of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) which reside in the center of…

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Daryl Joe D. Santos - Investigative Study on Preprint Journal Club as an Effective Method of Teaching Latest Knowledge in Astronomy
Student (postgraduate)
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (tertiary)

The evaluation of the role of preprint journal clubs in Astronomy as a tool for teaching the newest discoveries in Astronomy has not been explored yet. In this paper, we present an investigative study of understanding the factors that affect the…

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David McKenna - The Crab Pulsar From A Birr’s Eye View
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

We present the early results from 12 hours of data from a 40-hour observing campaign of the Crab Pulsar between 110 and 190 MHz using the Irish LOFAR station (I-LOFAR) at Birr Castle, 180 years on from the Crab Nebula’s discovery with the Great…

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Dazhi Zhou - Isotope ratios and ages in the starburst galaxy NGC253
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry

Since different isotopes are formed in different mass stars, isotope ratio (in particular 13C/18O but also other isotopes involving N, Si and S, etc) becomes an index of the relative contribution of the nucleosynthesis of different mass stars…

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