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Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass offer a promising avenue for advancing our understanding of both fundamental particle physics and the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure. To overcome challenges associated with traditional…

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The Large Scale Structure (LSS) found in galaxy redshift surveys and in computer simulations of cosmic structure formation shows a very complex network of galaxy clusters, filaments, and sheets around large voids. Here, we introduce a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Colberg

Upcoming wide-field spectroscopic surveys will observe galaxies in a range of cosmic web environments in and around galaxy clusters. In this paper, we test and quantify how successfully we will be able to identify the environment of…

Next-generation wide-field spectroscopic surveys will observe the infall regions around large numbers of galaxy clusters with high sampling rates for the first time. Here we assess the feasibility of extracting the large-scale cosmic web…

In recent years, a rapidly growing literature has focussed on the construction of wavelet systems to analyze functions defined on the sphere. Our purpose in this paper is to generalize these constructions to situations where sections of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Daryl Geller , Domenico Marinucci

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

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 explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

Using reconstructed initial conditions in the SDSS survey volume, we carry out constrained hydrodynamic simulations in three regions representing different types of the cosmic web: the Coma cluster of galaxies; the SDSS great wall; and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Renjie Li , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Shuiyao Huang , Neal Katz , Xiong Luo , Weiguang Cui , Hao Li , Xiaohu Yang , Ning Jiang , Yuning Zhang

We explore the evolution of halo spins in the cosmic web using a very large sample of dark matter haloes in the $\Lambda$CDM Planck-Millennium N-body simulation. We use the NEXUS+ multiscale formalism to identify the hierarchy of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Carlos S. Frenk

The spin of galaxy clusters encodes key information about their formation, dynamics, and the influence of large-scale structure. However, whether clusters possess statistically significant spin and how to measure it observationally remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Weiguang cui , Min Bao

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

Galaxy clusters are located in the densest areas of the universe and are intricately connected to larger structures through the filamentary network of the Cosmic Web. In this scenario, matter flows from areas of lower density to higher…

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…

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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

Spatial networks are ubiquitous in social, geographical, physical, and biological applications. To understand the large-scale structure of networks, it is important to develop methods that allow one to directly probe the effects of space on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Michelle Feng , Mason A. Porter

For decades, the boundary of cosmic filaments have been a subject of debate. In this work, we determine the physically-motivated radii of filaments by constructing stacked galaxy number density profiles around the filament spines. We find…

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

Automated segmentation of the vertebral column in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a prerequisite for pathological assessment and surgical planning. However, state-of-the-art methods, particularly those based on Transformers or large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 K S Nithurshen , Saurabh J. Shigwan

Dark matter haloes in cosmological filaments and walls have their spin vector aligned (in average) with their host structure. While haloes in walls are aligned with the plane of the wall independently of their mass, haloes in filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo