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A new approach for the classification of the cosmic web is presented. In extension of the previous work of Hahn et al. (2007) and Forero-Romero et al. (2009) the new algorithm is based on the analysis of the velocity shear tensor rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 Yehuda Hoffman , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Noam I. Libeskind , Alexander Knebe

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 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 cosmic web defines the large scale distribution of matter we see in the Universe today. Classifying the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments and nodes allows one to explore structure formation and the role environmental factors have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher , M. S. T. Johnson

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

The large-scale structure of the Universe is characterised by a web-like structure made of voids, sheets, filaments, and knots. The structure of this so-called cosmic web is dictated by the local velocity shear tensor. In particular, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , N. I. Libeskind , Y. Hoffman , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm

We present an information-theoretic analysis of the Cosmic Web that goes beyond the scalar density contrast and exploits the full structure of the tidal deformation tensor. The three eigenvalues ($\lambda_1, \lambda_2, \lambda_3$) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Juan Garcia-Bellido

The classification of the cosmic web into different environments is both a tool to study in more detail the formation of halos and galaxies via the link between their properties and the large-scale environment and as a class of objects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emma Ayçoberry , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of cosmic morphologies of the large-scale structure by examining the Lagrangian dynamics of various tensors of a cosmic fluid element, including the velocity gradient tensor, the Hessian matrix of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

The cosmic web structure is studied with the concepts and methods of fractal geometry, employing the adhesion model of cosmological dynamics as a basic reference. The structures of matter clusters and cosmic voids in cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Jose Gaite

We use the Millennium simulation to show that halo clustering varies significantly with cosmic web type. Halos are classified as node, filament, sheet and void halos based on the eigenvalue decomposition of the velocity shear tensor. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher

This study concerns an inventory of the gravitational force and tidal field induced by filaments, walls, cluster nodes and voids on Megaparsec scales and how they assemble and shape the Cosmic Web. The study is based on a N$_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Roi Kugel , Rien van de Weygaert

It is now well accepted that the galaxies are distributed in filaments, sheets and clusters all of which form an interconnected network known as the Cosmic Web. It is a big challenge to quantify the shapes of the interconnected structural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-02 Prakash Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

Studies of cosmological objects should take into account their positions within the cosmic web of large-scale structure. Unfortunately, the cosmic web has only been extensively mapped at low-redshifts ($z<1$), using galaxy redshifts as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Khee-Gan Lee , Martin White

The cosmic web consists of a complex configuration of voids, walls, filaments, and clusters, which formed under the gravitational collapse of Gaussian fluctuations. Understanding under what conditions these different structures emerge from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Job Feldbrugge , Rien van de Weygaert

The cosmic web is the largest scale manifestation of the anisotropic gravitational collapse of matter. It represents the transitional stage between linear and non-linear structures and contains easily accessible information about the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk

The study of large-scale structure can benefit from accurate and robust identification of the cosmic web. Having such classification can facilitate a more complete extraction of cosmological information encoded therein. Classification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Edward Olex , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Alexander Knebe

The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most effective construction and the characteristics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. C. Coutinho , Sungryong Hong , Kim Albrecht , Arjun Dey , Albert-László Barabási , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

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
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