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The local theory of the critical lines of 2D and 3D Gaussian fields that underline the cosmic structures is presented. In the context of cosmological matter distribution the subset of critical lines of the 3D density field serves to…

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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

The intersections between a spherical shell and the faces of Voronoi's polyhedrons are numerically evaluated. The nodes of these intersections are the points that share the same distances from three nuclei. The nodes are assumed to be the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Lorenzo Zaninetti

This article gives the construction and complete classification of all three-dimensional spherical manifolds, and orders them by decreasing volume, in the context of multiconnected universe models with positive spatial curvature. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Evelise Gausmann , Roland Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Jeffrey Weeks

The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

We introduce a spectral hierarchy of cosmic-web classifications obtained by applying simple scale-weighting kernels to the density field before performing a standard eigenvalue-based web classification. This unifies and extends several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia

Filaments of the cosmic web drive spin acquisition of disc galaxies. The point process of filament-type saddle represent best this environment and can be used to revisit the Tidal Torque Theory in the context of an anisotropic peak (saddle)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Vincent Desjacques , Julien Devriendt

We investigate the alignment of galaxies and haloes relative to cosmic web filaments using the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation. We identify filaments by applying the NEXUS+ method to the mass distribution and the Bisous formalism to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Elmo Tempel , Rien van de Weygaert , Carlos S. Frenk

The large-scale structure of the Universe is distributed in a cosmic web. Studying the distribution and clustering of dark matter particles and halos may open up a new horizon for studying the physics of the dark Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Mohammad Ansarifard , Farbod Hassani , 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

In this work we test Wasserstein distance in conjunction with persistent homology, as a tool for discriminating large scale structures of simulated universes with different values of $\sigma_8$ cosmological parameter (present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-11 Maksym Tsizh , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , Franco Vazza

We demonstrate that the Discrete Persistent Source Extractor (DisPerSE) can be used with spectroscopic redshifts to define the cosmic web and its distance to galaxies in small area deepfields. Here we analyze the use of DisPerSE to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-11 Nicholas Luber , J. H. van Gorkom , Kelley M. Hess , D. J. Pisano , Ximena Fernandez , Emmanuel Momjian

In this video we highlight the application of Computational Geometry to our understanding of the formation and dynamics of the Cosmic Web. The emergence of this intricate and pervasive weblike structure of the Universe on Megaparsec scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-09 Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert , Gert Vegter , Bernard J. T. Jones , Monique Teillaud

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

We present a new way to formulate the geometry of the Cosmic Web in terms of Lagrangian space. The Adhesion model has an ingenious geometric interpretation out of which the spine of the Cosmic Web emerges naturally. Within this context we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert , Gert Vegter , Bernard J. T. Jones

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

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

Spatial transcriptomics clustering is pivotal for identifying cell subpopulations by leveraging spatial location information. While recent graph-based methods modeling cell-cell interactions have improved clustering accuracy, they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chenkai Guo , Yikai Zhu , Renxiang Guan , Jinli Ma , Siwei Wang , Ke Liang , Guangdun Peng , Dayu Hu

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

We present a novel method to image spin properties of spintronic systems using the spatially confined field of a scanned micromagnetic probe, in conjunction with existing electrical or optical global spin detection schemes. It is thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 V. P. Bhallamudi , A. J. Berger , D. E. Labanowski , D. Stroud , P. C. Hammel
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