Publications de Oliver Müller

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Testing a proposed planarity tool for studying satellite systems: The alleged consistency of Milky Way satellite galaxy planes with ΛcDM

Context. The existence of planes of satellite galaxies has been identified as a long-standing challenge to ΛCDM cosmology because satellite systems in cosmological simulations that are as extremely flattened and as strongly kinematically correlated as the ...

2025

The phase-space distribution of the M 81 satellite system

Oliver Müller, Nick Heesters

The spatial distribution of dwarf galaxies around their host galaxies is a critical test for the standard model of cosmology because it probes the dynamics of dark matter halos and is independent of the internal baryonic processes of galaxies. Comoving pla ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

The imprint of galaxy mergers on satellite planes in a cosmological context

Oliver Müller

Flattened and kinematically correlated planes of dwarf satellite galaxies have been observed in the Local Volume. The slinging out of satellites during host galaxy mergers has been suggested as a formation mechanism for these peculiar structures. We statis ...

2023

Nuclear star cluster formation in star-forming dwarf galaxies

Oliver Müller

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found in all types of galaxies from dwarfs to massive galaxies. Recent studies show that while low-mass NSCs in dwarf galaxies (M-gal< 10(9)M(circle dot)) form predominantly out of the merger of globul ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

Low Surface Brightness structures from annotated deep CFHT images: effects of the host galaxy’s properties and environment

Oliver Müller

Hierarchical galactic evolution models predict that mergers drive galaxy growth, producing low surface brightness (LSB) tidal features that trace galaxies’ late assembly. These faint structures encode information about past mergers and are sensitive to the ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2025

Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy MATLAS-2019

Oliver Müller

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are very-low-surface-brightness galaxies with large effective radii. Spectroscopic measurements of a few UDGs have revealed a low dark-matter content based on the internal motion of stars or globular clusters (GCs). This is in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

The Spatial Distribution of Globular Cluster Systems in Early-type Galaxies: Estimation Procedure and Catalog of Properties for Globular Cluster Systems Observed with Deep Imaging Surveys

Oliver Müller

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 nearby early-type galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey and Mass Assembly of early-Type GaLAxies with their fine Structures survey programs, which bot ...

2025

New dwarf galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Local Volume spiral galaxy NGC2683

Oliver Müller

We present initial results of a survey of host L-* galaxies environments in the Local Volume (D < 10 Mpc) searching for satellite dwarf galaxy candidates using the wide-field Hyper Suprime-Cam imager on the 8 m Subaru Telescope. This paper presents complet ...

2023

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII. The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and Their Connection to Dark Matter Halos

Oliver Müller

We study the size and structure of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 early-type galaxies from the NGVS, MATLAS, and ACSVCS surveys. Fitting S & eacute;rsic profiles, we investigate the relationship between effective radii of GC systems (R-e,R-gc) and ga ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Expanding on the fundamental metallicity relation in dwarf galaxies with MUSE

Oliver Müller

The mass-metallicity relation (MZR) represents one of the most important scaling relations in the context of galaxy evolution, comprising a positive correlation between stellar mass and metallicity (Z). The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) introduces ...

Edp Sciences S A2023

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of the globular cluster systems of 74 ultra-diffuse galaxies

Oliver Müller

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), characterised by their low surface brightness and large physical size, constitute a subclass of dwarf galaxies that challenge our current understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. In this paper, we probe the properties ...

2024

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS survey: The satellite system of NGC 474 under scrutiny with MUSE

Oliver Müller, Nick Heesters

A recent study of the distribution of dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS sample in galaxy groups revealed an excess of flattened satellite structures, reminiscent of the co-rotating planes of dwarf galaxies discovered in the local Universe. If confirmed, this le ...

2025

Examining the relationship between the bulge-to-total stellar mass ratio and dwarf galaxy count in the context of ΛCDM

Oliver Müller

Previous results suggest that there is a correlation between the size of the bulge of a galaxy and the number of its dwarf galaxy satellites. This was found to be inconsistent with the standard model of cosmology based on comparisons to semi-analytical dar ...

Edp Sciences S A2023

Characteristics and sources of fluorescent aerosols in the central Arctic Ocean

Margarida Teles Nogueira Rolo, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Markus Frey, Oliver Müller, Nora Bergner, Alireza Moallemi

The Arctic is sensitive to cloud radiative forcing. Due to the limited number of aerosols present throughout much of the year, cloud formation is susceptible to the presence of cloud condensation nuclei and ice nucleating particles (INPs). Primary biologic ...

2024

IFUM integrated field spectroscopy of ten M104 satellite galaxy candidates

Oliver Müller

We report the spectroscopic analysis of 10 satellite galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero galaxy (M104, NGC4594), based on data obtained with IFUM (integral field units for Magellan). Based on their newly observed recessional veloci ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2024

Lopsided distribution of MATLAS and ELVES dwarf satellite systems around isolated host galaxies

Oliver Müller, Nick Heesters

The properties of satellite dwarf galaxies provide important empirical insights for verifying cosmological models on galaxy scales. Their phase-space correlations, in particular, offer interesting insights into a broad range of models, since they are domin ...

2024

Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Oliver Müller

2023

Simulations of cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies in MOND

Oliver Müller

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster have velocity dispersion profiles that are in full agreement with the predictions of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) in isolation. However, the external field effect (EFE) from the cluster seriously unde ...

2024

A too-many-dwarf-galaxy-satellites problem in the M 83 group

Yves Revaz, Oliver Müller

Dwarf galaxies in groups of galaxies provide excellent test cases for models of structure formation. This led to a so-called small-scale crisis, including the famous missing-satellites and too-big-to-fail problems. It was suggested that these two problems ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

The satellite galaxy plane of NGC 4490 in light of ΛCDM: Sparsity of similarly extreme analogs and a possible role of satellite pairs

Oliver Müller, Nick Heesters

Context. The system of galaxies around NGC 4490 was recently highlighted to display a flattened, kinematically correlated structure reminiscent of planes of satellite galaxies around other hosts. Aims. Since known satellite planes are in tension with expec ...

2024