• Any member or affiliate of the AAS may submit an abstract. 
• The abstract must be submitted through the online system. 
• A nonmember may submit an abstract. 
• Pending members of the AAS/DPS may submit an abstract. Please contact the Membership Department to submit your membership applications. 
• Submission of an abstract indicates all authors agree to adhere to AAS/DPS meeting policies and code of conduct. 
• Presenters must be listed as the first author on the paper. 
• Presenting/first author must register for the meeting. 
• Presenting/first author must be the presenter at the meeting. 
  • On rare occasions, AAS/DPS will consider exceptions to this rule in the case of a major illness or other emergency. The first author should e-mail the Science Organizing Committee in advance of the presentation, explaining the situation and suggesting a backup presenter. 

Abstracts Per Meeting 

An abstract (which will appear in the Meeting program) must be submitted for every presentation.  presentations.

• Invited talk or Contributed Research Paper (including Dissertation talks)
• DEIA/Workforce
• Education/Outreach

One first-author scientific abstract is permitted per individual from the first category. This limit does not apply to first-author abstracts submitted to the DEIA/Workforce and Education/Outreach categories.

There is no limit to the number of abstracts that you may co-author. NOTE: The abstract body text can be a maximum of 2,250 characters (which includes letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols/special characters).