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Dr. Marcel Pawlowski

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I am a Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader at the AIP since July 2021 in the project "Cosmic Choreographies". My research mostly revolves around dwarf and satellite galaxies, galaxy dynamics and evolution, and near-field cosmology.

Previously, I was a Schwarzschild-Fellow at AIP since 2018, a Hubble Fellow at the University of California, Irvine (2016-2018), and a postdoc at Case Western Reserve University (2013-2016). I got my PhD from the University of Bonn in 2013. My research has been supported with a Klaus-Tschira Boost Fund, and I am a Fellow of the German Scholars Organization e.V. Leadership Academy (2016-2017) and of the Leibniz Leadership Academy (2021-2022).

For more information, please visit my website: marcelpawlowski.com
Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader
Office: LH/1-12
Phone: +49 331 7499 342
mpawlowskinothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam
 

Teaching

Courses I teach at the University of Potsdam

Publications

Publications at NASA ADS: ADS library

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

An intriguing coincidence between the majority of vast polar structure dwarfs and a recent major merger at the M31 position
Akib, I., Hammer, F., Yang, Y., Pawlowski, M. S., Wang, J., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 694, A66; published February 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452131, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Testing a proposed planarity tool for studying satellite systems: The alleged consistency of Milky Way satellite galaxy planes with ΛCDM
Pawlowski, M. S., Júlio, M. P., Kanehisa, K. J., Müller, O., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 694, L4; published February 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453428, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
IFUM integrated field spectroscopy of ten M104 satellite galaxy candidates
Crosby, E., ... Pawlowski, M. S., 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536, 3, 2072; published January 2025
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae2680, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS survey: The satellite system of NGC 474 under scrutiny with MUSE
Müller, O., ... Pawlowski, M. S., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, A44; published January 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450143, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Gas thermodynamics meets galaxy kinematics: Joint mass measurements for eROSITA galaxy clusters
Li, P., ... Júlio, M. P., Pawlowski, M. S., ... Schwope, A., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 692, A253; published December 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451266, NASA ADS
Phase-space Correlations of Satellite Galaxy Systems and Challenges to ?CDM Cosmology
Pawlowski, M. S., 2024
Publications de l'Observatoire Astronomique de Beograd, 104, 59; published December 2024
doi:10.69646/aob104p059, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Lopsided distribution of MATLAS and ELVES dwarf satellite systems around isolated host galaxies
Heesters, N., Jerjen, H., Müller, O., Pawlowski, M. S., Jamie Kanehisa, K., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A110; published October 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450110, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The satellite galaxy plane of NGC 4490 in light of ΛCDM. Sparsity of similarly extreme analogs and a possible role of satellite pairs
Pawlowski, M. S., ... Taibi, S., Júlio, M. P., Kanehisa, K. J., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 688, A153; published August 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449954, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
HSTPROMO Internal Proper-motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. I. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Draco
Vitral, E., ... Pawlowski, M. S., ..., 2024
The Astrophysical Journal, 970, 1, 1; published July 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad571c, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Satellite group infall into the Milky Way: Exploring the Crater-Leo case with new HST proper motions
Júlio, M. P., Pawlowski, M. S., ... Taibi, S., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 687, A212; published July 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449985, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo