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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Recent Graduate
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Extrasolar planets (exoplanets) are those that are located beyond our solar system and orbit around other stars. In the last decade, this field has captured a lot of interest within the scientific community due to the increasing number of…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Data Science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

I work for the MeerTRAP project that uses the MeerKAT radio telescope in a South African desert to search for enigmatic bursts of radio emission of roughly millisecond duration that are known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). FRBs, their origins and…

Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry
  • Planetary Atmospheres

Hot Jupiters are gas giant planets with a very short orbital period orbiting around their host stars at distances shorter than 0.1 AU. When a hot Jupiter passes in front of its home star and casts its shadow on our telescopes, the light curve…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Geophysics
  • Earth Science

The flow in the mantle has a crucial impact on the evolution of our planet: it shapes the surface of the Earth, drives plate tectonics controlling the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, regulates the internal temperature and interacts…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

It is well known that the Sun is a fantastic scenario where a plethora of phenomena develops frequently. Being Earth revolving around it, what happens on the Sun reverberates all over the Solar System. One of the many forms of solar activity are…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

We perform an ‘agnostic exploration' of the demographics of low-mass stellar systems at high redshift in a suite of cosmological simulations from the First Billion Years (FiBY) project. From an analysis of such substructures in the plane…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The merger of a neutron star binary system produces detectable gravitational wave emission. The extreme environment of these mergers results in multiple outflows of material producing radioactive kilo/macronova, a site for heavy element…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Geophysics
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Transpolar arcs (TPAs) are auroral features that occur polewards of the main auroral oval, at latitudes where auroras rarely form, suggesting that the magnetosphere has acquired a complicated magnetic topology. They are primarily a northward…

Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Gamma ray bursts are among the most energetic emission events in the known universe, in which a vast amount of electromagnetic energy is released. Correct interpretation of the light we observe from gamma-ray bursts is essential to understanding…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Exobiology
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Abstract:

We explore the Martian atmosphere with Ares; an extension of the TauREx3 exoplanetary atmospheric retrieval framework for the Martian atmosphere, designed for interpreting the European Space Agency's (ESA) Trace Gas…