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Here I present results from individual galaxy studies and galaxy surveys in the Local Universe with particular emphasis on the spatially resolved properties of neutral hydrogen gas. The 3D nature of the data allows detailed studies of the…

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In the current cosmological paradigm, an initially flat three-dimensional manifold that pervades space (the `dark-matter sheet') folds up to build concentrations of mass (galaxies), and a cosmic web between them. Galaxies are nodes,…

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Galaxy superclusters, the largest galaxy structures in the cosmic web, are formed due to the gravitational collapse (although they are not usually gravitationally bound). Their geometrical properties can shed light on the structure…

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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

The distribution of matter in the universe shows a complex pattern, formed by cluster of galaxies, voids and filaments denoted as cosmic web. Different approaches have been proposed to model such structure in the framework of the general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-05 Stefano Viaggiu , Marco Montuori

The distribution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies on the mega-parsec scale of the Universe follows an intricate pattern now famously known as the Large-Scale Structure or the Cosmic Web. To study the environments of this network,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Petra Awad , Reynier Peletier , Marco Canducci , Rory Smith , Abolfazl Taghribi , Mohammad Mohammadi , Jihye Shin , Peter Tino , Kerstin Bunte

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

Galaxy clusters in the Universe occupy the important position of nodes of the cosmic web. They are connected among them by filaments, elongated structures composed of dark matter, galaxies, and gas. The connection of galaxy clusters to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Nicola Malavasi , Jenny G. Sorce , Klaus Dolag , Nabila Aghanim

A quantitative study of the clustering properties of the cosmic web as a function of absolute magnitude and colour is presented using the SDSS Data Release 7 galaxy survey. Mark correlations are included in the analysis. We compare our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Volker Mueller , Kai Hoffmann , Sebastian E. Nuza

We introduce The Fabric of the Universe, an art and science collaboration focused on exploring the cosmic web of dark matter with unconventional techniques and materials. We discuss two of our projects in detail. First, we describe a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Benedikt Diemer , Isaac Facio

The large--scale structure (LSS) in the Universe comprises a complicated filamentary network of matter. We study this network using a high--resolution simulation of structure formation of a $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmology. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg M. Colberg , K. Simon Krughoff , Andrew J. Connolly

Modern redshift surveys such as the 2 degree field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reveal the fully 3 dimensional distribution of a million or so galaxies over a large cosmological volume. Visually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jatush V. Sheth , Varun Sahni

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

A novel fractal analysis of the cosmic web structure is carried out, employing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, data release 7. We consider the large-scale stellar mass distribution, unlike other analyses, and determine its multifractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jose Gaite

In this work, we use the theory of spatial networks to analyze galaxy distributions. The aim is to develop new approaches to study the spatial galaxy environment properties by means of the network parameters. We investigate how each of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Evelise Gausmann , Fabricio Ferrari

Geometrical model of structure of the universe is examined to obtain analytical expression for the two points nonlinear correlation function. According to the model the objects (galaxies) are concentrated into two types of structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Buryak , A. Doroshkevich

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

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…

The Local Universe (D < 120 Mpc) has been intensely studied for decades, with highly complete galaxy redshift surveys now publicly available. These data have driven density reconstructions of the underlying matter density field, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yuxin Huang , Khee-Gan Lee , Noam I. Libeskind , Sunil Simha , Aurélien Valade , J. Xavier Prochaska

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

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