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We investigate the characteristics and the time evolution of the cosmic web from redshift, z=2, to present time, within the framework of the NEXUS+ algorithm. This necessitates the introduction of new analysis tools optimally suited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk

According to the modern cosmological paradigm galaxies and galaxy systems form from tiny density perturbations generated during the very early phase of the evolution of the Universe. Using numerical simulations we study the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 J. Einasto , G. Hütsi , E. Saar , I. Suhhonenko , L. J. Liivamägi , M. Einasto , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky E. Tago , E. Tempel

Gravitational-collapse-based explanations of the cosmic web lead to problems in estimating the total mass in the universe. A first-principles several-scales model is developed here for the structural organisation of cosmic matter in a flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-11 Raphael Blumenfeld

Cosmic connectivity and multiplicity, i.e. the number of filaments globally or locally connected to a given cluster is a natural probe of the growth of structure and in particular of the nature of dark energy. It is also a critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Sandrine Codis , Dmitri Pogosyan , Christophe Pichon

In the study of the process of cosmic structure formation numerical simulations are crucial tools to interface observational data to theoretical models and to investigate issues otherwise unexplored. Enormous advances have been achieved in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-12 Paolo Salucci , Stefano Borgani , Carlos Frenk , Lauro Moscardini , Matteo Viel

We follow the evolution of galaxy systems in numerical simulation. Our goal is to understand the role of density perturbations of various scales in the formation and evolution of the cosmic web. We perform numerical simulations with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-28 I. Suhhonenko , J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , G. Hütsi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

Observable consequences of the hypothesis that the observed universe is a numerical simulation performed on a cubic space-time lattice or grid are explored. The simulation scenario is first motivated by extrapolating current trends in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Silas R. Beane , Zohreh Davoudi , Martin J. Savage

Over the last decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental for advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These simulations follow the non-linear evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-20 Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Ewald Puchwein

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

Understanding the universe is hampered by the elusiveness of its most common constituent, cold dark matter. Almost impossible to observe, dark matter can be studied effectively by means of simulation and there is probably no other research…

The universe's large-scale structure forms a vast, interconnected network of filaments, sheets, and voids known as the cosmic web. For decades, astronomers have observed that the orientations of neighboring galaxy clusters within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Michael J. West , Roberto De Propris , Maret Einasto , Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

The large scale structure of the universe is a complex web of clusters, filaments, and voids. Its properties are informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar velocities. Wiener Filter reconstructions recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helene M. Courtois , Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Yehuda Hoffman , Denis Courtois

The 80% of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter that comprises the skeleton of the large-scale structure called the Cosmic Web. As the Cosmic Web dictates the motion of all matter in galaxies and inter-galactic media…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sungwook E. Hong , Donghui Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim

Matter in the Universe is arranged in a cosmic web, with a filament of matter typically connecting each neighbouring galaxy pair, separated by tens of millions of light-years. A quadrupolar pattern of the spin field around filaments is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Qianli Xia , Mark C. Neyrinck , Yan-Chuan Cai , Miguel A. Aragón-Calvo

We study the cosmological information contained in the cosmic web, categorized as four structure types: nodes, filaments, walls, and voids, using the Quijote simulations and a modified nexus+ algorithm. We show that splitting the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 James Sunseri , Adrian E. Bayer , Jia Liu

The Cosmic Web is a complex network of filaments, walls and voids that represent the largest structures in the Universe. In this network, which is the direct result of structure formation, galaxy clusters occupy central positions as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Nicola Malavasi , Nabila Aghanim , Hideki Tanimura , Victor Bonjean , Marian Douspis

We perform large-scale cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations directly via numerical relativity. Starting with initial conditions sampled from the cosmic microwave background, we track the emergence of a cosmic web without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hayley J. Macpherson , Daniel J. Price , Paul D. Lasky

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

Using reconstructed initial conditions in the SDSS survey volume, we carry out constrained hydrodynamic simulations in three regions representing different types of the cosmic web: the Coma cluster of galaxies; the SDSS great wall; and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Renjie Li , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Shuiyao Huang , Neal Katz , Xiong Luo , Weiguang Cui , Hao Li , Xiaohu Yang , Ning Jiang , Yuning Zhang

Observations reveal that on large scales the universe is spanned by a percolating network of superclusters interspersed with large and almost empty regions -- voids. This thesis reports the construction of a sophisticated computational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jatush V. Sheth