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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

We report the {\em first} systematic study of the supercluster-void network in the $\Lambda$CDM concordance cosmology treating voids and superclusters on an equal footing. We study the dark matter density field in real space smoothed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei F. Shandarin

We present, for the first time, a Local Universe (LU) characterization using high precision constrained $N$-body simulations based on self-consistent phase-space reconstructions of the large-scale structure in the Two-Micron All-Sky Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 Sebastian E. Nuza , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Hess , Noam I. Libeskind , Volker Mueller

The large scale galaxy and matter distribution is often described by means of the cosmic web made up of voids, sheets, filaments and knots. Many different recipes exist for identifying this cosmic web. Here we focus on a sub-class of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Simon Pfeifer , Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki , Krishna Naidoo

The cosmic web consists of a nested hierarchy of structures: voids, walls, filaments, and clusters. These structures interconnect and can encompass one another, collectively shaping an intricate network. Here we introduce the Hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 M. A. Aragon-Calvo

Recent application of the Bayesian algorithm BORG to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main sample galaxies resulted in the physical inference of the formation history of the observed large-scale structure from its origin to the present…

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

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

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

Halos, filaments, sheets and voids in the cosmic web can be defined in terms of the eigenvalues of the smoothed shear tensor and a threshold $\lambda_{\rm th}$. Using analytic methods, we construct mean maps centered on these types of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Han Aung , J. D. Cohn

The cosmic web is one of the most complex systems in nature, consisting of galaxies and clusters of galaxies joined by filaments and walls, leaving large empty regions called cosmic voids. The most common method of describing the web is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jaan Einasto

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

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

Studying the structures (halos and galaxies) within the cosmic environments (void, sheet, filament, and node) where they reside is an ongoing attempt in cosmological studies. The link between the properties of structures and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Hossein Hatamnia , Shant Baghram

In the context of the cosmological and constrained ELUCID simulation, this study explores the statistical characteristics of filaments within the cosmic web, focussing on aspects such as the distribution of filament lengths and their radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Youcai Zhang , Hong Guo , Xiaohu Yang , Peng Wang

Precise cosmic web classification of observed galaxies in massive spectroscopic surveys can be either highly uncertain or computationally expensive. As an alternative, we explore a fast Machine Learning-based approach to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 John F. Suárez-Pérez , Yeimy Camargo , Xiao-Dong Li , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

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

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

We use a 64$h^{-1}$Mpc dark matter (DM) only cosmological simulation to examine the large scale orientation of haloes and substructures with respect the cosmic web. A web classification scheme based on the velocity shear tensor is used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Stefan Gottlöber , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes

A new numerical technique to identify the cosmic web is proposed. It is based on locating multi-stream flows, i.e. the places where the velocity field is multi-valued. The method is local in Eulerian space, simple and computaionally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergei F. Shandarin

We analyze the structure and connectivity of the distinct morphologies that define the Cosmic Web. With the help of our Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF), we dissect the matter distribution of a cosmological $\Lambda$CDM N-body computer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones