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Using a new statistical approach we study the alignment signal of galactic spins with respect to the center of voids identified in the TNG-300 simulation. We explore this signal in different samples of galaxies, varying their distance from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-08 F. Dávila-Kurbán , M. Lares , D. Garcia Lambas

We investigate the alignment between the spin vectors of galaxy groups and the axes of their nearest cosmic filaments using the TNG300-1 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. By systematically analyzing a large sample of groups, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Hao-da Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data. The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r^* < 20. We determine the angular correlation function of galaxy…

We study the evolution of angular momenta of ($M_*=10^{10}-10^{12}\msun$) galaxies utilizing large-scale ultra-high resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and find that spin of the stellar component changes direction frequently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Renyue Cen

We present an analysis of bar length measurements of 3150 local galaxies in a volume limited sample of low redshift (z < 0.06) disk galaxies. Barred galaxies were initially selected from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, and the lengths and widths…

Galaxy angular momenta (spins) contain valuable cosmological information, complementing their positions and velocities. The baryonic spin direction of galaxies has been probed as a reliable tracer of their host halos and the primordial spin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Ming-Jie Sheng , Lin Zhu , Hao-Ran Yu , Hongchuan Ma , Haikun Li , Peng Wang , Xi Kang

Tidal torque theory and simulations of large scale structure predict spin vectors of massive galaxies should be coplanar with sheets in the cosmic web. Recently demonstrated, the giants (K$_{s}$ $\leq$ -22.5 mag) in the Local Volume beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 George J. Conidis

We investigate the spin evolution of dark matter haloes and their dependence on the number of connected filaments from the cosmic web at high redshift (spin-filament relation hereafter). To this purpose, we have simulated $5000$ haloes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Joaquin Prieto , Nelson Padilla , Raul Jimenez

We report the discovery of a statistically significant radial alignment of cluster galaxies in a sample of 85 X-ray selected clusters observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The tendency for alignment is a robust feature of our sample and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Pereira , J. R. Kuhn

Recent observations revealed a coherence between the spin vector of a galaxy and the orbital motion of its neighbors. We refer to the phenomenon as "the spin$-$orbit alignment (SOA)" and explore its physical origin via the IllustrisTNG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Jun-Sung Moon , Sung-Ho An , Suk-Jin Yoon

We evaluate the success of linear tidal-torque theory (TTT) in predicting galactic-halo spin using a cosmological N-body simulation with thousands of well-resolved haloes. The proto-haloes are identified by tracing today's haloes back to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cristiano Porciani , Avishai Dekel , Yehuda Hoffman

The Galaxy Zoo has provided morphological data on many galaxies. Several biases have been identified in the Galaxy Zoo data. Here we report on a newly discovered selection effect: astronomers interested in studying spiral galaxies may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Tianrui , Peng , John Edward English , Pedro Silva , Darren R. Davis , Wayne B. Hayes

We present the first detection of mass dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with over 2 sigma confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is reconstructed on Mpc scales across GAMA fields…

Given an approximately centered image of a spiral galaxy, we describe an entirely automated method that finds, centers, and sizes the galaxy and then automatically extracts structural information about the spiral arms. For each arm segment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Darren R. Davis , Wayne B. Hayes

The standard explanation for galaxy spin starts with the tidal-torque theory (TTT), in which an ellipsoidal dark-matter protohalo, which comes to host the galaxy, is torqued up by the tidal gravitational field around it. We discuss a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Mark C. Neyrinck , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Bridget Falck , Alexander S. Szalay , Jie Wang

In order to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies one must first distinguish between the two main morphological classes of massive systems: spirals and early-type systems. This paper introduces a project, Galaxy Zoo,…

In the paper we discussed the observational aspects of rotation in the Universe on different scales. We show dependence between the angular momentum of the structures and their size. The presented observational situation is that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wlodzimierz Godlowski

The theory of galaxy formation posits a clear correlation between the spin of galaxies and the orientation of the elements of the large-scale structure of the Universe, particularly cosmic filaments. A substantial number of observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 A. V. Antipova , D. I. Makarov , N. Libeskind , E. Tempel

This paper, the first of two, introduces an observational study of spiral structure in galaxies chosen from the SINGS survey. Near infrared (NIR) and optical data are used to produce mass surface density maps, and from these the morphology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Kendall , R. C. Kennicutt , C. Clarke

This work investigates the alignment of galactic spins with the cosmic web across cosmic time using the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. The cosmic web structure is extracted via the persistent skeleton as implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Codis , A. Jindal , N. E. Chisari , D. Vibert , Y. Dubois , C. Pichon , J. Devriendt