Science: co-authored

1. Gas thermodynamics meets galaxy kinematics: Joint mass measurements for eROSITA galaxy clusters, P. Li, A. Liu, M. Kluge, J. Comparat, Y. Tian, M. P. Júlio, M. S. Pawlowski, J. Sanders, E. Bulbul, A. Schwope, V. Ghirardini, X. Zhang, Y. E. Bahar, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, F. Balzer, C. Garrel, 2024, A&A in press, arXiv:2411.09735.
2. Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: The satellite system of NGC474 under scrutiny with MUSE, O. Müller, F. R. Marleau, N. Heesters, P.-A. Duc, M. S. Pawlowski, M. Poulain, R. Habas, E. Sola, M. Urbano, R. Smith, P. Durrell, E. Emsellem, R. Sánchez-Janssen, S. Lim, S. Paudel, 2024, A&A in press, arXiv:2411.06795.
3. HST Proper Motion of Andromeda III: Another Satellite Co-orbiting The M31 Satellite Plane, D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, M. S. Pawlowski, T. M. Girard, K. J. Kanehisa, A. Petroski, M. Martone, V. Kozhurina-Platais, I. Platais, 2024, ApJ, 975, 138.
4. HSTPROMO Internal Proper-motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. I. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Draco, E. Vitral, R. P. van der Marel, S. T. Sohn, M. Libralato, A. del Pino, L. L. Watkins, A. Bellini, M. G. Walker, G. Besla, M. S. Pawlowski, G. A. Mamon, 2024, ApJ, 970, 1.
5. Lopsided distribution of MATLAS and ELVES dwarf satellite systems around isolated host galaxies, N. Heesters, H. Jerjen, O. Müller, M. S. Pawlowski, K. J. Kanehisa, 2024, A&A, 690, 110.
6. A too-many dwarf satellite galaxies problem in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields, K. J. Kanehisa, M. S. Pawlowski, N. Heesters, O. Müller, 2024, A&A, 686, 280.
7. Tracing satellite planes in the Sculptor group: II. Discovery of five faint dwarf galaxies in the DESI Legacy Survey, D. Martinez-Delgado; M. Stein, M. S. Pawlowski, D. Makarov, L. Makarova, G. Donatiello, D. Lang, 2024, submitted to A&A, arXiv:2405.03769.
8. Satellite group infall into the Milky Way: exploring the Crater-Leo case with new HST proper motions, M. P. Júlio, M. S. Pawlowski, S. T. Sohn, S. Taibi, R. P. van der Marel, S. S. McGaugh, 2024, A&A, 687, 212.
9. A too-many dwarf galaxy satellites problem in the M83 group, O. Müller, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Revaz, A. Venhola, M. Rejkuba, M. Hilker, K. Lutz, 2024, A&A, 684, 6.
10. The phase-space distribution of the M81 satellite system, O. Müller, N. Heesters, M. S. Pawlowski, J. K. Kanehisa, F. Lelli, N. I. Libeskind, 2024, A&A, 683, 250.
11. New dwarf galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero galaxy, E. Crosby, H. Jerjen, O. Müller, M. S. Pawlowski, M. Mateo, F. Lelli, 2024, MNRAS, 527, 9118.
12. “The Accretion History of the Milky Way: III. Hydrodynamical Simulations of Galactic Dwarf Galaxies at First Infall“, J. Wang, F. Hammer, Y. Yang, M. S. Pawlowski, G. A. Mamon, H. Wang (2024), MNRAS, 527, 7144.
13. “The accretion history of the Milky Way. II. Internal kinematics of globular clusters and of dwarf galaxies“, F. Hammer, J. Wang, G. A. Mamon, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Yang, Y. Jiao, H. Li, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, H. Wang (2024), MNRAS, 527, 2718.
14. A portrait of the Vast Polar Structure as a young phenomenon: hints from its member satellites, S. Taibi, M. S. Pawlowski, S. Khoperskov, M. Steinmetz, N. I. Libeskind, 2024, A&A, 681, 73.
15. Molecular and ionized gas in tidal dwarf galaxies: the spatially resolved star formation relation, N. Kovakkuni, F. Lelli, P.-A. Duc, M. Boquien, J. Braine, E. Brinks, V. Charmandaris, F. Combes, J. Fensch, U. Lisenfeld, S. S. McGaugh, J. C. Mihos, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Revaz, P. M. Weilbacher, 2023, MNRAS, 526, 1940.
16. Measuring galaxy cluster mass profiles into the low acceleration regime with galaxy kinematics, P. Li, Y. Tian, M. P. Júlio, M. S. Pawlowski, F. Lelli, S. S. McGaugh, J. M. Schombert, J. I. Read, P.-C. Yu, C.-M. Ko, 2023, A&A 677, A24.
17. The imprint of galaxy mergers on satellite planes in a cosmological context, K. J. Kanehisa, M. S. Pawlowski, O. Müller, 2023, MNRAS, 524, 952.
18. New dwarf galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Local Volume spiral galaxy NGC2683, E. Crosby, H. Jerjen, O. Müller, M. Pawlowski, M. Mateo, M. Dirnberger, 2023, MNRAS, 521, 4009.
19. Classifying the satellite plane membership of Centaurus A’s dwarf galaxies using orbital alignment constraints; K. J. Kanehisa, M. S. Pawlowski, O. Müller, S. T. Sohn, 2023, MNRAS, 519, 6184.
20. The accretion history of the Milky Way. I. How it shapes globular clusters and dwarf galaxies; F. Hammer, H. Li, G. A. Mamon, M. S.  Pawlowski, P. Bonifacio, Y. Jiao, H. Wang, J. Wang, Y. Yang, 2023, MNRAS, 519, 5059.
21. Incorporating baryon-driven contraction of dark matter halos in rotation curve fits; P. Li, S. S. McGaugh, F. Lelli, J. M. Schombert, M. S. Pawlowski, 2022, A&A, 665, A143.
22. 3D hydrodynamic simulations for the formation of the Local Group satellite planes; I. Banik, I. Thies, R. Truelove, G. Candlish, B. Famaey, M. S. Pawlowski, R. Ibata, P. Kroupa, 2022, MNRAS, 513, 129.
23. An extended stellar halo discovered in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal using Gaia EDR3; Y. Yang, F. Hammer, Y. Jiao, M. Pawlowski, 2022, MNRAS, 512, 4171.
24. The Cen A galaxy group: dynamical mass and missing baryons; O. Müller, F. Lelli, B. Famaey, M. S. Pawlowski, K. Fahrion, M. Rejkuba, M. Hilker, H. Jerjen, 2022, A&A, 662, A57.
25. Gaia EDR3 proper motions of Milky Way dwarfs. II: Velocities, Total Energy and Angular Momentum; F. Hammer, J. Wang, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Yang, P. Bonifacio, H. Li, C. Babusiaux, F. Arenou, 2021, ApJ, 922, 93.
26. The phantom dark matter halos of the Local Volume in the context of modified Newtonian dynamics; P. -A. Oria, B. Famaey, G. F.  Thomas, R. Ibata, J. Freundlich, L. Posti, M. Korsaga, G. Monari, O. Müller, N. I. Libeskind, M. S. Pawlowski, 2021, ApJ, 923, 68.
27. The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation in the Local Group and the Equivalent Circular Velocity of Pressure Supported Dwarfs; S. McGaugh, F. Lelli, J. Schombert, P. Li, T. Visgaitis, K. Parker, M. Pawlowski, 2021, AJ, 162, 202.
28. Tracing satellite planes in the Sculptor group: I. Discovery of three faint dwarf galaxies around NGC 253; D. Martinez-Delgado, D. Makarov, B. Javanmardi, M. S. Pawlowski, L. Makarova, G. Donatiello, D. Lang, J. Roman, K. Vivas, J. A. Carballo-Bello, 2021, A&A, 652, 48.
29. The lopsided distribution of satellites of isolated central galaxies; P. Wang, N. I. Libeskind, M. S. Pawlowski, X. Kang, W. Wang, Q. Guo, E. Tempel, 2021, ApJ, 914, 78.
30. Gaia EDR3 proper motions of Milky Way dwarfs I: 3D Motions and Orbits; H. Li, F. Hammer, C. Babusiaux, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Yang, F. Arenou, C. Du, J. Wang, 2021, ApJ, 916, 8.
31. On the absence of backsplash analogues to NGC 3109 in the ΛCDM framework; I. Banik, M. Haslbauer, M. S. Pawlowski, B. Famaey, P. Kroupa, 2021,  MNRAS, 503, 6170.
32. The coherent motion of Cen A dwarf satellite galaxies remains a challenge for  ΛCDM cosmology; O. Müller,  M. S. Pawlowski,  F. Lelli,  K. Fahrion,  M. Rejkuba,  M. Hilker,  J. Kanehisa, N. Libeskind,  H. Jerjen, 2021, A&A Letters, 645, 5.
33. The properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Cen A group: Stellar populations, internal dynamics, and a heart-shaped Halpha ring; O. Müller, K. Fahrion, M. Rejkuba, M. Hilker, F. Lelli, K. Lutz, M. S. Pawlowski, L. Coccato, G. S. Anand, H. Jerjen, 2021, A&A, 645, 92.
34. The Hestia project: simulations of the Local Group; N. I. Libeskind et al. (including M. S. Pawlowski), 2020, MNRAS, 498, 2968.
35. The alignment of satellite systems with cosmic filaments in the SDSS DR12; P. Wang, N. I. Libeskind, E. Tempel, M. S. Pawlowski, X. Kang, Q. Guo, 2020, ApJ, 900, 129.
36. An updated detailed characterization of planes of satellites in the MW and M31; I. M. Santos-Santos, R. Domínguez-Tenreiro, M. S. Pawlowski, 2020, MNRAS, 499, 3755.
37. Metal-poor nuclear star clusters in two dwarf galaxies near Centaurus A suggesting formation from the in-spiraling of globular clusters; K. Fahrion, O. Müller, M. Rejkuba, M. Hilker, M. Lyubenova, G. van de Ven, I. Y. Georgiev, F. Lelli, M. S. Pawlowski, H. Jerjen, 2020, A&A, 634, 53.
38. The Orbital Histories of Magellanic Satellites Using Gaia DR2 Proper Motions; E. Patel, N. Kallivayalil, N. Garavito-Camargo, G. Besla, D. R.  Weisz, R. P. van der Marel, M. Boylan-Kolchin, M. S. Pawlowski, F. A.  Gómez, 2020, ApJ, 893, 121.
39. Sardinia Radio Telescope observations of Local Group dwarf galaxies — I. The cases of NGC6822, IC1613, and WLM; A. Tarchi, P. Castangia, G. Surcis, A. Brunthaler, C. Henkel, M. Pawlowski, K. M. Menten, A. Melis, S. Casu, M. Murgia, A. Trois, R. Concu, J. Darling, 2019, MNRAS, 492, 45.
40. The halo mass function of late-type galaxies from HI kinematics; P. Li, F. Lelli, S. McGaugh, M. S. Pawlowski, M. A. Zwaan, J. Schombert, 2019, ApJ Letters,  886, L11.
41. The orientation of planes of dwarf galaxies in the quasi-linear Universe; N.I. Libeskind, E. Carlesi, O. Muller, M. S. Pawlowski, Y. Hoffman, D. Pomarede, H. M. Courtois, R. B. Tully, S. Gottloeber, M. Steinmetz, J. Sorce, A. Knebe, 2019, MNRAS, 490, 3786.
42. The dwarf galaxy satellite system of Centaurus A; O. Müller, M. Rejkuba, M. S. Pawlowski, R. Ibata, F. Lelli, M. Hilker, H. Jerjen, 2019, A&A, 629A, 18.
43. The Origin of Lopsided Satellite Galaxy Distribution in Galaxy Pairs; C. C. Gong, N. I. Libeskind, E. Tempel, Q. Guo, S. Gottloeber, G. Yepes, P. Wang, J. Sorce, M. Pawlowski, 2019, MNRAS, 488, 3100.
44. Characterizing the Infall Times and Quenching Timescales of Milky Way Satellites with Gaia Proper Motions; S. P. Fillingham, M. C. Cooper, T. Kelley, M. K. Rodriguez Wimberly, M. Boylan-Kolchin, J. S. Bullock, S. Garrison-Kimmel, M. S. Pawlowski, C. Wheeler, 2019, arXiv:1906.04180, submitted to MNRAS.
45. The Magellanic System: the puzzle of the leading gas stream; T. Tepper-García; J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. S. Pawlowski, T. K. Fritz, 2019, MNRAS, 488, 918.
46. Phat ELVIS: The inevitable effect of the Milky Way’s disk on its dark matter subhaloes; T. Kelley, J. S. Bullock, S. Garrison-Kimmel, M. Boylan-Kolchin, M. S. Pawlowski, A. S. Graus, 2019, MNRAS, 487, 4409.
47. Gaia DR2 Proper Motions of Dwarf Galaxies within 420 kpc: Orbits, Milky Way Mass, Tidal Influences, Planar Alignments, and Group Infall; T. K. Fritz, G. Battaglia, M.S. Pawlowski, N. Kallivayalil, R. van der Marel, T. S. Sohn, C. Brook, G. Besla, 2018, A&A, 619, A103.
48. On the radial acceleration relation of ΛCDM satellite galaxies; Enrico Garaldi, Emilio Romano-Díaz, Cristiano Porciani, Marcel S. Pawlowski, 2018, Physical Review Letters, 120, 261301.
49. A whirling plane of satellite galaxies around Centaurus A challenges cold dark matter cosmology; Oliver Müller, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Helmut Jerjen & Federico Lelli; 2018, Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6375, pp. 534-537. [Our article made the cover of this Science issue.]
50. One Law to Rule Them All: The Radial Acceleration Relation of Galaxies; Federico Lelli, Stacy S. McGaugh, Jim M. Schombert, Marcel S. Pawlowski; 2017, ApJ, 836, 152.
51. Testing the two planes of satellites in the Centaurus Group; Oliver Müller, Helmut Jerjen, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Bruno Binggeli; 2016, A&A, 595, 119.
52. The Relation between Stellar and Dynamical Surface Densities in the Central Regions of Disk Galaxies; Federico Lelli, Stacy S. McGaugh, Jim Schombert, Marcel S. Pawlowski; 2016, ApJ Letters, 827, 19.
53. Beyond ΛCDM: Problems, solutions, and the road ahead; Bull, P.; Akrami, Y.; and 38 co-authors including Pawlowski, M.S., 2016, PDU, 12, 56.
54. Young tidal dwarf galaxies cannot be used to probe dark matter in galaxies; Hector Flores, Francois Hammer, Sylvain Fouquet, Mathieu Puech, Pavel Kroupa, Yanbin Yang, Marcel S. Pawlowski; 2016, MNRAS, 457L, 14.
55. Reproducing properties of MW dSphs as descendants of DM-free TDGs; Yanbin Yang, Francois Hammer, Sylvain Fouquet, Hector Flores, Mathieu Puech, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Pavel Kroupa; 2014, MNRAS, 442, 2419.
56. The vast thin plane of M31 co-rotating dwarfs: an additional fossil signature of the M31 merger and of its considerable impact in the whole Local Group; Hammer, F.; Yang, Y.; Fouquet, S.; Pawlowski, M. S.; Kroupa, P.; Puech, M.; Flores, H.; Wang, J., 2013, MNRAS, 431, 3543.
57. The Failures of the Standard Model of Cosmology Require a New Paradigm; Pavel Kroupa, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Mordehai Milgrom; 2012, International Journal of Modern Physics D, Volume 21, Issue 14, id. 1230003.
58. Evidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity; Michael Marks, Pavel Kroupa, Jörg Dabringhausen, Marcel S. Pawlowski; 2012, MNRAS, 422, 2246.
59. Local-Group tests of dark-matter Concordance Cosmology: Towards a new paradigm for structure formation; Pavel Kroupa, Benoit Famaey, Klaas S. de Boer, Jörg Dabringhausen, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Christian M. Boily, Helmut Jerjen, Duncan Forbes, Gerhard Hensler, Manuel Metz; 2010, A&A, 523, A32.

Science: non-refereed comments,  proceedings, white papers

• Astrophysical Tests of Dark Matter with Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer; T. S. Li, M. Kaplinghat, et al. (with M. S. Pawlowski), 2019, arXiv:1903.03155;
  Chapter for “The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019“, MSE Science Team, arXiv:1904.04907.
• Dark Matter Physics with Wide Field Spectroscopic Surveys; T. S. Li, M. Kaplinghat, et al. (with M. S. Pawlowski), 2019, Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 252; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 252.
• Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) observations of Local Group dwarf galaxies; A. Tarchi, P. Castangia, G. Surcis, A. Brunthaler, K. Menten, M. Pawlowski,  . . . J. Darling, 2017, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 13(S336), 109-112.
• Does the existence of a plane of satellites constrain properties of the Milky Way?; Marcel S. Pawlowski, 2017, SF2A-2017: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held 4-7 July, 2017 in Paris. Eds.: C. Reylé, P. Di Matteo, F. Herpin, E. Lagadec, A. Lançon, Z. Meliani and F. Royer, pp.189-192
• The impact of Gaia on our understanding of the Vast Polar Structure of the Milky Way; Marcel S. Pawlowski, 2017, SF2A-2017: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held 4-7 July, 2017 in Paris. Eds.: C. Reylé, P. Di Matteo, F. Herpin, E. Lagadec, A. Lançon, Z. Meliani and F. Royer, pp.249-252.
• Comment on “Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way”; Stacy McGaugh, Federico Lelli, Marcel Pawlowski, Garry Angus, Olivier Bienaymé, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Erwin de Blok, Benoit Famaey, Filippo Fraternali, Ken Freeman, Gianfranco Gentile, Rodrigo Ibata, Pavel Kroupa, Fabian Lüghausen, Paul McMillan, David Merritt, Ivan Minchev, Giacomo Monari, Elena D’Onghia, Alice Quillen, Bob Sanders, Jerry Sellwood, Arnaud Siebert, Hongsheng Zhao, 2015, arXiv:1503.07813
• The Vast Polar Structure of the Milky Way and Filamentary Accretion of Sub-Halos (arXiv); M. S. Pawlowski, 2015, Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical  and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field  Theories, 1724 (Proceedings of a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 1-7 2012).
• Counter-orbiting tidal debris as the origin of the MW DoS; M. S. Pawlowski; Proceeding (EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 19, 2012, Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way).

Popular Science

• “Fordern galaktische Zwerge die Kosmologie heraus?” (Do Galactic Dwarfs Challenge Cosmology?) in Physik in unserer Zeit, Nov 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/piuz.202301689
• “Brauchen wir Dunkle Materie” (Do we need dark matter) in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, March 13, 2022.
• “Beyond Dark Matter“, invited article for the Institute of Arts and Ideas News special issue on the topic of Gravity, 10/2017.
• “Zwerggalaxien: Das kosmologische Standardmodell auf dem Prüfstand” by Pavel Kroupa und Marcel Pawlowski, in Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German version of the Scientific American), August 2010. Free download in pdf format.
• Translated for the Spanish edition of Scientific American: “Galaxias enanas y  materia oscura”, Investigación y ciencia, 414, 2011.
• Updated and re-issued in Spektrum der Wissenschaft Dossier “Raum, Zeit, Materie”, 4/2011
• Following the editor’s wish, we also started a science blog on the topic at the SciLogs: “The Dark Matter Crisis” (old version of the blog on SciLogs.eu).
  

Fiction

• “Das Kaffeetassen-Komplott”, novel (paperback, 160 pages, appeared in July 2002 at Libri-Bod, ISBN 3-8311-3809-5). Amazon, Bol, Libri.
• “Die Frage”, short story, in „Mein Tisch ist eine Insel – Anthologie zum 16. Treffen Junger Autoren “ (edition lit.europe, 2002, 112 pages, paperback, ISBN 3-930126-16-8, sold out) My winning story at the annual competition of young German authors.