List of works by Michael Hilker

A 3D view of the Hydra I cluster core- II. Stellar populations ⬇️

A 3D view of the Hydra I galaxy cluster core - I. Kinematic substructures ⬇️

A Census of Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies in Nearby Galaxy Clusters

A Flat Faint End of the Fornax Cluster Galaxy Luminosity Function

A class of compact dwarf galaxies from disruptive processes in galaxy clusters.

scientific article published in May 2003

A deep view on the Virgo cluster core

scholarly article

A large population of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Hydra I cluster

scientific article

A normal abundance of faint satellites in the fossil group NGC 6482

scientific article

A preserved high-z compact progenitor in the heart of NGC 3311 revealed with MUSE 2D stellar population analysis

scientific article

A search for massive ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus galaxy cluster

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A search for ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus galaxy cluster

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A supermassive black hole in an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy ⬇️

scientific article

A young cluster with an extended main-sequence turnoff: confirmation of a prediction of the stellar rotation scenario ⬇️

scholarly article

Abundance ratios and IMF slopes in the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 1396 with MUSE ⬇️

scientific article

Abundances from a large spectroscopic survey in ω Centauri

An I-band calibration of surface brightness fluctuation measurements at blue colours

scientific article

Analysis of medium resolution spectra by automated methods – Application to M 55 and ω Centauri

scientific article

CRIRES+: a cross-dispersed high-resolution infrared spectrograph for the ESO VLT

CRIRES: commissioning and first science results

Chemodynamics of compact stellar systems in NGC 5128: how similar are globular clusters, ultra-compact dwarfs, and dwarf galaxies? ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Compact stellar systems in the Fornax cluster: a UV perspective

scholarly article

Comparing CN and CH line strengths in a homogeneous spectroscopic sample of 8 Galactic globular clusters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Concept and optical design of the cross-disperser module for CRIRES+

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Constraining the escape fraction of ionizing photons from H ii regions within NGC 300: A concept paper ⬇️

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Constraining ultracompact dwarf galaxy formation with galaxy clusters in the local universe ⬇️

scientific article

Contribution of stripped nuclear clusters to globular cluster and ultracompact dwarf galaxy populations ⬇️

scientific article

Controversial age spreads from the main sequence turn-off and red clump in intermediate-age clusters in the LMC ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Dark Matter in the Elliptical Galaxies NGC 1399 and NGC 4636

Detection of Supermassive Black Holes in Two Virgo Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Direct N-body simulations of globular clusters - I. Palomar 14

scholarly article

Discovery of an X-ray binary in the outer SMC wing

scholarly article

Discovery of two M 32 twins in Abell 1689

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Distance to the Centaurus cluster and its subcomponents from surface brightness fluctuations

scientific article

Distribution of star formation rates during the rapid assembly of NGC 1399 as deduced from its globular cluster system ⬇️

scientific article

Dynamical masses of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in Fornax

scientific article

Dynamical versus stellar masses of ultracompact dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster★

scholarly article

Dynamics of the NGC 4636 Globular Cluster System

Dynamics of the NGC 4636 globular cluster system

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Dynamics of the NGC 4636 globular cluster system

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Early formation and recent starburst activity in the nuclear disk of the Milky Way

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Erratum: Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - I. HST/ACS observations and dynamical properties of globular clusters at low environmental density

scholarly article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Evidence for multiple populations in the intermediate-age cluster Lindsay 1 in the SMC ⬇️

Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near-Infrared

Extragalactic globular clusters in the near infrared. III. NGC 5846 and NGC 7192. Quantifying the age distribution of sub-populations

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Extragalactic globular clusters in the near-infrared. II. The globular clusters systems of NGC 3115 and NGC 4365

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Nearby Clusters

Faint dwarf galaxies in Hickson Compact Group 90 ⬇️

scientific article

Faint dwarf spheroidals in the Fornax Cluster

scholarly article

Families of dynamically hot stellar systems over 10 orders of magnitude in mass

scholarly article

Formation Efficiencies of Old Globular Clusters – form Dwarf to Giant Galaxies

Fornax compact object survey FCOS: On the nature of Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies

scientific article

From a star cluster ensemble to its formation history

From star clusters to dwarf galaxies: the properties of dynamically hot stellar systems

scholarly article

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high angular resolution JHK_s_ imaging survey of the Galactic centre. I. Methodology, performance, and near-infrared extinction towards the Galactic centre

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

GMOS Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

scientific article

Galaxy luminosity function of the dynamically young Abell 119 cluster: probing the cluster assembly ⬇️

scholarly article

Globular Cluster Populations in Early-Type Galaxies

Globular Clusters in Nearby Galaxy Clusters

Globular cluster clustering and tidal features around ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the halo of NGC 1399 ⬇️

scholarly article

Globular cluster clustering around ultra compact dwarf galaxies in the halo of NGC 1399

Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - I.HST/ACS observations and dynamical properties of globular clusters at low environmental density

scholarly article

Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - II. Nuclear star clusters and their relation to massive Galactic globular clusters

scholarly article

Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - III. Formation efficiencies of old globular clusters★

scientific article

Globular clusters as tracers of the halo assembly of nearby central cluster galaxies

HighM/Lratios of UCDs: A variation of the IMF?

Internal Dynamics of the Most Luminous Fornax Cluster UCD

article

Internal Properties of Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

scholarly article

Intra-cluster globular clusters around NGC 1399 in Fornax?

scholarly article

Is the escape velocity in star clusters linked to extended star formation histories? Using NGC 7252: W3 as a test case ⬇️

scientific article

Isolated elliptical galaxies and their globular cluster systems. II. NGC 7796 - globular clusters, dynamics, companion ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

KMOS view of the Galactic centre. I. Young stars are centrally concentrated ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Limits on the dark matter content of globular clusters

Medium resolution spectroscopy in ω Centauri: abundances of 400 subgiant and turn-off region stars

scientific article

Metallicity distribution of ω Cen Red Giants based on the Strömgren m1 metallicity index

Multi-Colour Imaging of Ultra-Compact Objects in the Fornax Cluster

News from the isolated ellipticals NGC 5812, NGC 7507, and NGC 7796 ⬇️

No evidence for significant age spreads in young massive LMC clusters ⬇️

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No evidence for younger stellar generations within the intermediate-age massive clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1806 and NGC 411 ⬇️

article

Novel infrared polarimeter for the ESO CRIRES+ instrument

Nuclear clusters in dwarf irregular galaxies and their connection to massive galactic clusters

Old globular clusters in Magellanic-type dwarf irregular galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

On central black holes in ultra-compact dwarf galaxies

scholarly article by S. Mieske et al published 27 September 2013 in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On-axis spectroscopy of the z $\mathsf{=0.144}$ radio-loud quasar HE 1434–1600: an elliptical host with a highly ionized ISM

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Operational metrics for the ESO Very Large Telescope: lessons learned and future steps

Peculiar compact stellar systems in the Fornax cluster ⬇️

scientific article

Potential of the Surface Brightness Fluctuations method to measure distances to dwarf elliptical galaxies in nearby clusters

scientific article

Probable member stars of the gravitational theory-testing globular clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Probing the boundary between star clusters and dwarf galaxies: A MUSE view on the dynamics of Crater/Laevens I ⬇️

scholarly article

Public Surveys at ESO

Public surveys at ESO

Reddening Distribution across the Center of the Globular Cluster ω Centauri ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Revisiting the impact of atmospheric dispersion and differential refraction on widefield multiobject spectroscopic observations ⬇️

scholarly article

SDSS J085431.18+173730.5: the first compact elliptical galaxy hosting an active nucleus ⬇️

Sloshing in its cD halo: MUSE kinematics of the central galaxy NGC 3311 in the Hydra I cluster

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Spatially resolved kinematics of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy★

Spectroscopic Metallicities for Fornax Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies, Globular Clusters, and Nucleated Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

scholarly article

Star formation history and metallicity in the Galactic inner bulge revealed by the red giant branch bump

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Stellar population properties of the most massive globular clusters and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies of the Fornax cluster

Stromgren Photometry of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. New Calibrations of the Metallicity Index ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stromgren photometry of Galactic globular clusters. II. Metallicity distribution of red giants in {omega} Centauri ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Structural properties of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Fornax and Virgo clusters

scientific article

Testing fundamental physics with distant star clusters: analysis of observational data on Palomar 14

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Testing fundamental physics with distant star clusters: theoretical models for pressure-supported stellar systems

scientific article

The Assembly History of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

The Fornax 3D project: Globular clusters tracing kinematics and metallicities ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2020

The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with VST

scientific article published in January 2020

The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with VST. VI. Optical properties of the dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster

scientific article

The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with the VST

scientific article published in March 2021

The Fornax Deep Survey with VST. II. Fornax A: A Two-phase Assembly Caught in the Act ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Fornax Deep Survey with the VST

scholarly article

The Fornax deep survey with VST. I. The extended and diffuse stellar halo of NGC 1399 out to 192/kpc ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Giant Branches of Centauri: Multiwavelength Observations of Evolved Stars

scientific article

The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399. II. Kinematics of a Large Sample of Globular Clusters

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399. III. VLT Spectroscopy and Database

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Hydra I cluster core. I. Stellar populations in the cD galaxy NGC 3311 ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Hydra I cluster core. II. Kinematic complexity in a rising velocity dispersion profile around the cD galaxy NGC 3311

scientific article

The Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS). V. Discovery of a Dwarf–Dwarf Galaxy Pair at z = 0.30 and Its Characterization Using Deep VLT/MUSE Observations

The VIMOS upgrade programme

The age structure of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies and its dependence on host galaxy properties

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The central region of the Fornax cluster

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The central region of the Fornax cluster

scholarly article

The central region of the Fornax cluster

scientific article

The colour-magnitude relation of globular clusters in Centaurus and Hydra. Constraints on star cluster self-enrichment with a link to massive Milky Way globular clusters ⬇️

scientific article

The counterparts of Local Group dwarf spheroidals in nearby clusters

The dark halo of the Hydra I galaxy cluster: core, cusp, cosmological?

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The dark matter halo of NGC 1399 – CDM or MOND?

scholarly article

The distance to Hydra and Centaurus from surface brightness fluctuations: Consequences for the Great Attractor model

scholarly article

The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1866 from its Cepheid members ⬇️

The double sub-giant branch of NGC 6656 (M 22): a chemical characterization

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The dwarf galaxy satellite system of Centaurus A

scholarly article

The early-type dwarf galaxy population of the Centaurus cluster

scholarly article

The early-type dwarf galaxy population of the Fornax cluster

scientific article

The early-type dwarf galaxy population of the Hydra I cluster

scholarly article

The extended spatial distribution of globular clusters in the core of the Fornax cluster ⬇️

scientific article

The extended star formation history of ω Centauri

scientific article

The globular cluster system of NGC 1316

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The globular cluster system of NGC 1316. III. Kinematic complexity ⬇️

scientific article

The globular cluster system of NGC1399. IV. Some noteworthy objects

scientific article

The globular cluster system of NGC 1399

scientific article

The nature of UCDs: Internal dynamics from an expanded sample and homogeneous database

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The old globular cluster system of the dIrr galaxy NGC 1427A in the Fornax cluster

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud Clusters – III. No evidence for multiple populations in the SMC cluster NGC 419

scientific article

The search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud clusters – I. Two stellar populations in the Small Magellanic Cloud globular cluster NGC 121 ⬇️

scientific article

The search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud clusters – II. The detection of multiple populations in three intermediate-age SMC clusters ⬇️

scientific article

The specific frequencies of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies

scientific article

The stellar kinematics of the giant halos of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

The two metallicity groups of the globular cluster M 22: a chemical perspective

scholarly article

The velocity dispersion and mass function of the outer halo globular cluster Palomar 4

scientific article

The velocity dispersion and mass-to-light ratio of the remote halo globular cluster NGC 2419

scientific article

Threshing in action: the tidal disruption of a dwarf galaxy by the Hydra I cluster ⬇️

Two formation channels of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in Hickson compact groups

scientific article

UCDs and GCs: Structural Differences from HST Imaging

UCDs in Fornax and Abell 1689

UCDs – A Mixed Bag of Objects

Ultra compact objects in the Fornax cluster of galaxies: Globular clusters or dwarf galaxies?

scholarly article

Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters

scientific article

Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies – More Massive than Allowed?

Ultra-Compact Stellar Systems in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster

Unveiling a rich system of faint dwarf galaxies in the Next Generation Fornax Survey ⬇️

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