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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George W X Barker - A total eclipse of the heart? Recommendations for the management of atrial fibrillation during exploration-class missions
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Atrial fibrillation is a common supraventricular tachycardia that is associated with cardiovascular disease, hypertension and heart failure. It is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the atria, prevents coordinated atrial contractions, and…

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Gilda González - Variability of F2-layer peak characteristics at low latitude in Argentina for high and low solar activity and comparison with the IRI-2016 model
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

This work presents the study of the variability of foF2 and hmF2 at a low latitude station in South America (Tucumán, 26.9°S, 294.6°E; magnetic latitude 15.5°S, Argentina). Ground based ionosonde measurements obtained during different seasonal…

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Gilda González - Analysis of day-to-day variability in TEC at equatorial latitudes during 2008
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

We analyze the day-to-day variability in the total electron content (TEC) values measured at five GPS stations at the equatorial region for 90 days in 2008, from February 1 (day 32) to May 2 (day 122). The spectral analysis identifies periods of…

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Giulia Murtas - Coalescence instability in Chromospheric Partially Ionised Plasmas
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Solar system science

Magnetic reconnection takes place in various layers of the solar atmosphere and plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating (e.g., jets). In this process oppositely directed magnetic field lines break and reconnect through…

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Guanren Wang - Merging magnetic field data from fluxgate and induction coil magnetometers to produce improved one-second values
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Until recently, magnetic field data measurements at geomagnetic observatories have been made at one-minute mean cadence. With the demands of space weather research and forecasting, one-second data values are now desired. Fluxgate magnetometers…

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Gurjeet Kahlon - Analysing Star Clusters
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Star clusters are large agglomerations of stars which can be categorised into 2 main types: open clusters, loosely bound collections of young stars, and globular clusters, which are tightly gravitationally bound and typically contain older stars…

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Gwen Williams - ALMA observations of a Keplerian disc around the proto-O star G19.01-0.03 MM1
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

High-mass stars (>8 solar masses) are key constituents of galaxies, yet much remains unknown about their formation and mass growth. It is known that low-mass stars accrete material through rotationally supported circumstellar discs, and that…

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Hannah F. Rogers - Investigating regional outer core flows using the magnetic field
Student (postgraduate)
  • Data Science
  • Geophysics
  • Earth Science

Global magnetic models are used for a variety of different purposes in everyday life (e.g. navigation in your smartphone) but we do not fully understand how the magnetic field is changing in time. We assume secular variation (the magnetic field…

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Hannah Middleton - Continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have observed the mergers of black hole and neutron star systems, but they are also looking for long duration signals called continuous gravitational waves.…

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Heather Fenwick Johnston - Modeling Spots in Young Stars
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Young, developing stars often exhibit both interesting and erratic behaviour in the form of outbursts (the accretion of stellar material) and starspots (regions of the star that are hotter or colder). Understanding these natural events is vital…

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