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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Pearse Murphy - Observations of Radio Burst Source Sizes and Scattering in the Solar Corona
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Low frequency radio wave scattering and refraction can have a dramatic effect on the observed size and position of radio sources in the solar atmosphere (corona).
The scattering and refraction is thought to be due to fluctuations of…

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Peter Hatfield - AUGMENTING MACHINE LEARNING PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science

Wide-area imaging surveys are one of the key ways of advancing our understanding of Cosmology, galaxy formation physics, and the large-scale structure of the Universe in the coming years. These surveys typically require calculating redshifts for…

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Petro Janse van Rensburg - Characterisation of Small, Close-Approaching Near-Earth Asteroids
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Solar system science

Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids in stable orbits around the Sun that have escaped from the main asteroid belt due to resonant motion with larger planets. NEAs have orbits that bring them close to or cross the Earth’s orbit and therefore…

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Pi Nuessle - A Prediction Code for the BurstCube Satellite
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Remote Sensing

The future gamma-ray satellite BurstCube must be user-friendly in terms of predicting where the satellite will be, what it will be pointing at, and how useful the data will be at any time. This program provides answers to "When can I expect…

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Pranav Satheesh - Frequency Domain Gravitational Waveform Modelling for Eccentric Black Hole Binaries
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

LIGO’s first-ever detection of gravitational waves was consistent with
black holes moving in circular orbits as predicted by General Relativity. The
future generation of gravitational waves detectors like LISA will be able to
…

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Prateek Boga - Correlation between Sunspot Area and related Solar Activity parameters
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science
  • Space Education (tertiary)
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Understanding the working of the Sun has been intriguing to humanity for ages. After tons of turmoil and years of work, humans acquired the knowledge that is being processed now. To add a small blip to that pile, the research work has been done…

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Pratyusava Baral - Prospects of Probing Dark Energy with eLISA: Standard versus Null Diagnostics
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binary mergers along with an electromagnetic counterpart has the potential to shed `light' on the nature of dark energy in the intermediate redshift regime. An accurate measurement of dark…

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Pratyusava Baral - Gravitational waves with orbital angular momentum
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

Compact orbiting binaries like the black hole binary system observed in GW150914 carry large amount of orbital angular momentum. The post-ringdown compact object formed after merger of such a binary configuration has only spin angular momentum,…

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Qianjun Hang - Cross-correlations between the Legacy Survey and the CMB
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science
  • Theoretical Physics

The evolution of the universe since the Big Bang can be mainly probed at two key era: the early time at which light and matter just decouples, through the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and relatively 'recent' times, through galaxy…

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Rafia Sarwar - Event Rates of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) in Milky Way Galaxy
Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Numerous galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in their galactic nuclei enclosed by dense stellar population. extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) and intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) are the most compelling sources of…

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