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Cosmic filaments are the main transport channels of matter in the Megaparsec universe, and represent the most prominent structural feature in the matter and galaxy distribution. Here we describe and define the physical and dynamical nature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Job Feldbrugge , Rien van de Weygaert

We apply discrete Morse theory, global topology, and persistent homology to characterize the impact of massive neutrinos on the multiscale cosmic web, focusing on filaments. The topology of the cosmic web is sensitive to neutrino imprints,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Graziano Rossi , Hogyun Yu , Michaël Michaux

The network of filaments with embedded clusters surrounding voids seen in maps derived from redshift surveys and reproduced in simulations has been referred to as the cosmic web. A complementary description is provided by considering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Daniel Pomarede , Yehuda Hoffman , Helene M Courtois , R. Brent Tully

The universe in large scales is structured as a network known as cosmic web. Filaments are one of the structural components of this web, which can be introduced as a novel probe to study the formation and evolution of structures and as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Sina Taamoli , Shant Baghram

The caustic skeleton model is a mathematically rigorous framework for studying the formation history of the emerging cosmic web from the caustics in the underlying dark matter flow. In a series of two papers, we use constrained N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Benjamin Hertzsch , Job Feldbrugge , Maé Rodriguez , Rien van de Weygaert

Using a set of $\Lambda$CDM simulations of cosmic structure formation, we study the evolving connectivity and changing topological structure of the cosmic web using state-of-the-art tools of multiscale topological data analysis (TDA). We…

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

We present DisPerSE, a novel approach to the coherent multi-scale identification of all types of astrophysical structures, and in particular the filaments, in the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe. This method and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie

It is possible to visualize the Cosmic Web as an interconnected network of one-dimensional filaments, two-dimensional sheets and three-dimensional volume-filling structures which we refer to as clusters. We have used the Local Dimension D,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-28 Prakash Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Somnath Bharadwaj

A dynamical classification of the cosmic web is proposed. The large scale environment is classified into four web types: voids, sheets, filaments and knots. The classification is based on the evaluation of the deformation tensor, i.e. the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 J. E. Forero-Romero , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , A. Klypin , G. Yepes

The cosmological dark matter field is not completely described by its hierarchy of $N$-point functions, a non-perturbative effect with the consequence that only part of the theory can be probed with the hierarchy. We give here an exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Julien Carron , István Szapudi

The emergence of one and two-dimensional configurations -- Zeldovich pancakes -- progenitors of the observed filaments and clusters and groups of galaxies, is predicted by means of a developed kinetic approach in analyzing the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 V. G. Gurzadyan , N. N. Fimin , V. M. Chechetkin

A complex network is a condensed representation of the relational topological framework of a complex system. A main reason for the existence of such networks is the transmission of items through the entities of these complex systems. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 María Pereda , Ernesto Estrada

A novel method allowing to compute density, velocity and other fields in cosmological N--body simulations with unprecedentedly high spatial resolution is described. It is based on the tessellation of the three-dimensional manifold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Sergei Shandarin

We review the analysis of the Cosmic Web by means of an extensive toolset based on the use of Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations. The Cosmic Web is the salient and pervasive foamlike pattern in which matter has organized itself on scales of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Bernard J. T. Jones , Erwin Platen

The cosmic web is one of the most striking features of the distribution of galaxies and dark matter on the largest scales in the Universe. It is composed of dense regions packed full of galaxies, long filamentary bridges, flattened sheets…

The large-scale structure of the universe is comprised of virialized blob-like clusters, linear filaments, sheet-like walls and huge near empty three-dimensional voids. Characterizing the large scale universe is essential to our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Nithin Shivshankar , Pratyush Pranav , Vijay Natarajan , Rien van de Weygaert , E G Patrick Bos , Steven Rieder

We use the Millennium and Millennium-II simulations to illustrate the Tessellation-Level-Tree (TLT), a hierarchical tree structure linking density peaks in a field constructed by voronoi tessellation of the particles in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filament-dominated web-like structure. Numerical experiments at high and low redshift of viable structure formation theories also show filament-dominance. We present a simple quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Richard Bond , Lev Kofman , Dmitri Pogosyan

We present a new method to identify large scale filaments and apply it to a cosmological simulation. Using positions of haloes above a given mass as node tracers, we look for filaments between them using the positions and masses of all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Nelson E. Padilla