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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Deniz Soyuer - Constraining the Depth of the Winds on Uranus and Neptune via Ohmic Dissipation
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Theoretical Physics

Determining the depth of atmospheric winds in the outer planets of the Solar system is a key topic in planetary science. We provide constraints on these depths in Uranus and Neptune via the total induced Ohmic dissipation, due to the interaction…

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Dimitrios Theodorakis - Teaching Astronomy with Python
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)
  • Space Education (tertiary)

Coding is an essential skill all astronomers eventually learn. Over the past few years in the UK there has been a push for coding to be taught earlier to students. I have made 14 Astronomy activities using python notebooks to integrate coding…

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Dominic Samra - Clouds on Ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Planetary Atmospheres

Over 4000 exoplanets are now known, most are unlike anything in our Solar system. One example is HAT-P-7b, an Ultra-hot exoplanet with a mass roughly that of Jupiter, orbiting so close to their host that they are 'tidally locked', so…

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Donald Bowden - Igneous Cumulate Samples in Gale Crater, Mars
Student (postgraduate)
  • Geophysics
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

During exploration of Gale crater, Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory rover (Curiosity) has discovered two samples, “Askival” and “Bindi”, which display characteristic textures and chemistry of feldspar cumulates. Using measurements taken from the…

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Doosoo Yoon - Spectral and Imaging Properties of Sgr A* from High-Resolution 3D GRMHD Simulations with Radiative Cooling
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A∗), the only black hole for which we can directly resolve both the event horizon as well as its outer feeding conditions, serves as a unique laboratory for numerical models…

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Eduardo Perez Macho - Ionospheric climatology at South American sector using amplitude scintillation S4 index
Student (postgraduate)
  • Geophysics
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Scintillations are caused by ionospheric irregularities and can affect trans-ionospheric radio signals. One way to understand and predict such irregularities is through ionospheric climatology using scintillation indexes during different periods…

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Edward Bryant - Ultra-High Precision Photometry of Exoplanet Transits with NGTS Multi-Telescopes
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a 12-telescope facility in Chile hunting for planets orbiting other stars (“exoplanets”). NGTS finds exoplanets by monitoring stars to search for periodic reductions in the star’s brightness, which…

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Eimear Gallagher - "CHARMing" - building a receiver for the LMT
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

The Collaborative Heterodyne Astronomical Receiver for Mexico (CHARM) has been developed for the Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT) in Puebla Mexico as part of the ASTEC project (Astronomical Systems, Technology and Engineering Collaboration). The…

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Ekaterina Ilin - Where do megaflares occur on fully convective stars?
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Small, fully convective stars produce intense white light flares that indicate strong stellar magnetic fields. However, how these fields are produced is still unclear, since the solar-like magnetic dynamo requires a star to have a radiative core…

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Eliot Ayache - Numerical Simulations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Dynamics to Emission
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

The recent joint detection of gravitational wave event GW170817 and gamma-ray burst GRB170817A proved the association between neutron star mergers and short GRBs. It also showed the strong dependency of the afterglow light-curve properties on the…

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