Johanna Hartke
Dr. rer. nat.
Areas of expertise
Galaxy formation and evolution; Galaxy dynamics; Planetary nebulae; Integral-field spectroscopy; Adaptive optics
Research
I am interested in the formation, evolution, and dynamics of galaxies ranging from our own Milky Way to the most massive galaxies found at the centres of galaxy clusters. In my PhD research I used Planetary Nebulae (PNe) as kinematic tracers for the build-up of the extended halos of massive early-type galaxies and the interplay with the intra-cluster light. I am also a member of the LEWIS and INSPIRE collaborations that target ultra-diffuse and ultra-massive compact galaxies respectively, exploring the extremes of galaxy formation.
Teaching
I regularly give guest lectures in the following courses:
- FFYS7101 Optical Systems Applications
- TÄHT7056 Data Processing Techniques for Astronomy with ESO Instrumentation
- TÄHT7053 Spectroscopic Diagnostics in Astrophysics
- TÄHT7055 Observational Techniques Using the Nordic Optical Telescope
I have also taught in Observing Schools organised by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory and by the Opticon RadioNet Pilot NEON school at Asiago Observatory.
Publications
- E-INSPIRE- I. Bridging the gap with the local Universe: stellar population of a statistical sample of ultra-compact massive galaxies at z < 0.3 (2025)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mills, John; Spiniello, Chiara; Sergeyev, Alexey; Tortora, Crescenzo; Khramtsov, Vladyslav; D'Ago, Giuseppe; Maksymowicz-Maciata, Michalina; Benedetti, Joao P., V; Ferre-Mateu, Anna; Cappellari, Michele; Davies, Roger; Hartke, Johanna; Rosen, Charles
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Exploring Planetary Nebulae in the dwarf galaxy VCC 1249 using MUSE data (2025)
- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Planetary Nebulae : A Universal Toolbox in the Era of Precision Astrophysics Penger, Sophie; Hartke, Johanna; Arnaboldi, Magda; Ennis, Ana Inés
(Poster)
- INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics VIII. Emission lines and UV colours in ultracompact massive galaxies (2025)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Spiniello, Chiara; Radovich, Mario; Ferre-Mateu, Anna; De Propris, Roberto; Arnaboldi, Magda; La Barbera, Francesco; Hartke, Johanna; D'Ago, Giuseppe; Tortora, Crescenzo; Bevacqua, Davide; Maksymowicz-Maciata, Michalina; Mills, John; Napolitano, Nicola R.; Pulsoni, Claudia; Saracco, Paolo; Scognamiglio, Diana
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Populations In RElics – IX. KiDS J0842 + 0059: the first fully confirmed relic beyond the local Universe (2025)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tortora, C; Tozzi G; Agapito, G; Barbera, F La; Spiniello, C; Li R; Carlà, G; D’Ago, G; Ghose, E; Mannucci, F; Napolitano, N R; Pinna, E; Arnaboldi, M; Bevacqua, D; Ferré-Mateu, A; Gallazzi, A; Hartke, J; Hunt, L K; Maksymowicz-Maciata, M; Pulsoni, C; Saracco, P; Scognamiglio, D; Spavone, M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra I cluster III. Untangling UDG 32 from the stripped filaments of NGC 3314A with multi-wavelength data (2025)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hartke, Johanna; Iodice, Enrichetta; Gullieuszik, Marco; Mirabile, Marco; Buttitta, Chiara; Doll, Goran; D'Ago, Giuseppe; de la Casa, Clara C.; Hess, Kelley M.; Kotulla, Ralf; Poggianti, Bianca; Arnaboldi, Magda; Cantiello, Michele; Corsini, Enrico Maria; Falcon-Barroso, Jesus; Forbes, Duncan; Hilker, Michael; Mieske, S.; Rejkuba, Marina; Spavone, Marilena; Spiniello, C.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster. II. Stellar kinematics and dynamical masses (2025)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Buttitta, Chiara; Iodice, Enrichetta; Doll, Goran; Hartke, Johanna; Hilker, Michael; Forbes, Duncan A.; Corsini, Enrico M.; Rossi, Luca; Arnaboldi, Magda; Cantiello, Michele; D'Ago, Giuseppe; Falcon-Barroso, Jesus; Gullieuszik, Marco; La Marca, Antonio; Mieske, Steffen; Mirabile, Marco; Paolillo, Maurizio; Rejkuba, Marina; Spavone, Marilena; Spiniello, Chiara; Sarzi, Marc
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Planetary nebulae populations in the haloes of nearby massive early-type galaxies (2025)
- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Planetary Nebulae: A Universal Toolbox in the Era of Precision Astrophysics Hartke, J.; Arnaboldi, M.; Gerhard, O.; Ennis, A.; Pulsoni, C.; Coccato, L.; Cortesi, A.; Freeman, K.; Kuijken, K.; Merrifield, M.; Napolitano, N.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
- Survey of Planetary Nebulae in the Andromeda galaxy (M 31) (2025)
- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Planetary Nebulae : A Universal Toolbox in the Era of Precision Astrophysics Bhattacharya, Souradeep; Arnaboldi, Magda; Gerhard, Ortwin; Caldwell, Nelson; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Hammer, Francois; Yang, Yanbin; Freeman, Kenneth C.; Hartke, Johanna; McConnachie, Alan
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
- The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: Survey overview and the luminosity function of planetary nebulae (2025)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Congiu, E.; Scheuermann, F.; Kreckel, K.; Leroy, A.; Emsellem, E.; Belfiore, F.; Hartke, J.; Anand, G.; Egorov, O. V.; Groves, B.; Kravtsov, T.; Thilker, D.; Tovo, C.; Bigiel, F.; Blanc, G. A.; Bolatto, A. D.; Cronin, S. A.; Dale, D. A.; Mcclain, R.; Mendez-Delgado, J. E.; Oakes, E. K.; Klessen, R. S.; Schinnerer, E.; Williams, T. G.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Ultra-diffuse, ultra-different: observed versus simulated ultra-diffuse galaxies live in fundamentally different haloes (2025)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gannon, Jonah S.; Di Cintio, Arianna; Forbes, Duncan A.; García-Bethencourt, Guacimara; Brodie, Jean P.; Libeskind, Noam; Couch, Warrick J.; Hartke, Johanna
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics – V. A catalogue of ultra-compact massive galaxies outside the local Universe and their degree of relicness (2024)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
C. Spiniello, G. D'Ago, L. Coccato, J. Hartke, C. Tortora, A. Ferré-Mateu, C. Pulsoni, M. Cappellari, M. Maksymowicz-Maciata, M. Arnaboldi, D. Bevacqua, A. Gallazzi, K. L. Hunt, La F. Barbera, I. Martín-Navarro, R. N. Napolitano, M. Radovich, P. Saracco, D. Scognamiglio, M. Spavone, S. Zibetti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics – VII. The local environment of ultra-compact massive galaxies (2024)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scognamiglio, Diana; Spiniello, Chiara; Radovich, Mario; Tortora, Crescenzo; Napolitano, Nicola R; Li, Rui; Maturi, Matteo; Maksymowicz-Maciata, Michalina; Cappellari, Michele; Arnaboldi, Magda; Bevacqua, Davide; Coccato, Lodovico; D’Ago, Giuseppe; Feng, Hai-Cheng; Ferré-Mateu, Anna; Hartke, Johanna; Martín-Navarro, Ignacio; Pulsoni, Claudia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics - VI. The low-mass end slope of the stellar initial mass function and chemical composition (2024)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maksymowicz-Maciata, Michalina; Spiniello, Chiara; Martín-Navarro, Ignacio; Ferré-Mateu, Anna; Bevacqua, Davide; Cappellari, Michele; D'Ago, Giuseppe; Tortora, Crescenzo; Arnaboldi, Magda; Hartke, Johanna; Napolitano, Nicola R.; Saracco, Paolo; Scognamiglio, Diana
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Mapping the low-surface brightness outskirts of galaxies with planetary nebulae as discrete tracers (2024) EAS2024 Hartke, Johanna
(Other publication)
- Shapes of dark matter haloes with discrete globular cluster dynamics: The example of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) (2024)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Veršič, T.; Rejkuba, M.; Arnaboldi, M.; Gerhard, O.; Pulsoni, C.; Valenzuela, L. M.; Hartke, J.; Watkins, L. L.; van de Ven, G.; Thater, S.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Supermassive black hole mass in the massive elliptical galaxy M87 from integral-field stellar dynamics using OASIS and MUSE with adaptive optics: assessing systematic uncertainties (2024)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Simon David A., Cappellari Michele, Hartke Johanna
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: off-axis performance of PSF reconstruction (2024)
- Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Adaptive Optics Systems IX Simioni, Matteo; Jodlbauer, Daniel; Arcidiacono, Carmelo; Grazian, Andrea; Gullieuszik, Marco; Portaluri, Elisa; Vulcani, Benedetta; Wagner, Roland; Zanella, Anita; Hartke, Johanna; Helin, Tapio; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Masciadri, Elena; Pedichini, Fernando; Piazzesi, Roberto; Turchi, Alessio; Vaccari, Piero
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
- The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: overview and current status (2024)
- Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X Sturm, E.; Davies, R.; Alves, J.; Clénet, Y.; Kotilainen, J.; Monna, A.; Nicklas, H.; Pott, J.U.; Tolstoy, E.; Vulcani, B.; Achren, J.; Annadevara, S.; Anwand-Heerwart, H.; Arcidiacono, C.; Barboza, S.; Barl, L.; Baudoz, P.; Bender, R.; Bezawada, N.; Biondi, F.; Bizenberger, P.; Blin, A.; Boné, A.; Bonifacio, P.; Borgo, B.; van den Born, J.; Buey, T.; Cao, Y.; Chapron, F.; Chauvin, G.; Chemla, F.; Cloiseau, K.; Cohen, M.; Collin, C.; Czoske, O.; Dette, J.O.; Deysenroth, M.; Dijkstra, E.; Dreizler, S.; Dupuis, O.; van Egmond, G.; Eisenhauer, F.; Elswijk, E.; Emslander, A.; Fabricius, M.; Fasola, G.; Ferreira, F.; Schreiber, N.M.F.; Fontana, A.; Gaudemard, J.; Gautherot, N.; Gendron, E.; Gennet, C.; Genzel, R.; Ghouchou, L.; Gillessen, S.; Gratadour, D.; Grazian, A.; Grupp, F.; Guieu, S.; Gullieuszik, M.; de Haan, M.; Hartke, J.; Hartl, M.; Haussmann, F.; Helin, T.; Hess, H.J.; Hofferbert, R.; Huber, H.; Huby, E.; Huet, J.M.; Ives, D.; Janssen, A.; Jaufmann, P.; Jilg, T.; Jodlbauer, D.; Jost, J.; Kausch, W.; Kellermann, H.; Kerber, F.; Kravcar, H.; Kravchenko, K.; Kulcsár, C.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Kunst, P.; Kwast, S.; Lang, F.; Lange, J.; Lapeyere, V.; Le Ruyet, B.; Leschinski, K.; Locatelli, H.; Massari, D.; Mattila, S.; Mei, S.; Merlin, F.; Meyer, E.; Michel, C.; Mohr, L.; Montargès, M.; Müller, F.; Münch, N.; Navarro, R.; Neumann, U.; Neumayer, N.; Neumeier, L.; Pedichini, F.; Pflüger, A.; Piazzesi, R.; Pinard, L.; Porras, J.; Portaluri, E.; Przybilla, N.; Rabien, S.; Raffard, J.; Ragazzoni, R.; Ramlau, R.; Ramos, J.; Ramsay, S.; Raynaud, H.F.; Rhode, P.; Richter, A.; Rix, H.W.; Rodenhuis, M.; Rohloff, R.R.; Romp, R.; Rousselot, P.; Sabha, N.; Sassolas, B.; Schlichter, J.; Schuil, M.; Schweitzer, M.; Seemann, U.; Sevin, A.; Simioni, M.; Spallek, L.; Sönmez, A.; Suuronen, J.; Taburet, S.; Thomas, J.; Tisserand, E.; Vaccari, P.; Valenti, E.; Kleijn, G.V.; Verdugo, M.; Vidal, F.; Wagner, R.; Wegner, M.; van Winden, D.; Witschel, J.; Zanella, A.; Zeilinger, W.; Ziegleder, J.; Ziegler, B.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
- The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: the PSF Reconstruction Software (2024)
- Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Adaptive Optics Systems IX Grazian, Andrea; Portaluri, Elisa; Simioni, Matteo; Arcidiacono, Carmelo; Gullieuszik, Marco; Hartke, Johanna; Jodlbauer, Daniel; Pedichini, Fernando; Piazzesi, Roberto; Vaccari, Piero; Vulcani, Benedetta; Wagner, Roland; Zanella, Anita
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
- The treasure behind the haystack: MUSE analysis of five recently discovered globular clusters (2024)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gran, F.; Kordopatis, G.; Zoccali, M.; Hill, V.; Saviane, I.; Navarrete, C.; Rojas-Arriagada, A.; Carballo-Bello, J.; Hartke, J.; Valenti, E.; Ramos, Contreras R.; Leo, M.; Fabbro, S.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
