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We explore the information theory entropy of a graph as a scalar to quantify the cosmic web. We find entropy values in the range between 1.5 and 3.2 bits. We argue that this entropy can be used as a discrete analogue of scalars used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-20 María Valentina García-Alvarado , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Xiao-Dong Li

Large-scale gaseous filaments with length up to the order of 100 pc are on the upper end of the filamentary hierarchy of the Galactic interstellar medium. Their association with respect to the Galactic structure and their role in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Andreas Burkert , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

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 aim of cosmological simulations is to reproduce the properties of the observed Universe, serving as tools to test structure and galaxy formation models. Constrained simulations of our local cosmological region up to a few hundred Mpc/h…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Simon Pfeifer , Aurélien Valade , Stefan Gottlöber , Yehuda Hoffman , Noam I. Libeskind , Wojciech A. Hellwing

Using a large observational sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the spatial alignment between galaxy pairs and their local cosmic filaments. Focusing on pairs with stellar masses and separations comparable to the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Peng Wang

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

The Large Scale Structure in the galaxy distribution is investigated using The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using the Minimal Spanning Tree technique we have extracted sets of filaments, of wall--like structures, of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 A. Doroshkevich , D. L. Tucker , S. Allam , M. J. Way

Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is far less well established than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Andreas Faltenbacher , Volker Springel , Weipeng Lin , Huiyuan Wang

We construct a catalogue for filaments using a novel approach called SCMS (subspace constrained mean shift; Ozertem & Erdogmus 2011; Chen et al. 2015). SCMS is a gradient-based method that detects filaments through density ridges (smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jon Brinkmann , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Donald P. Schneider , Larry Wasserman

The Large Scale Structure (LSS) in the galaxy distribution is investigated using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release (SDSS EDR). Using the Minimal Spanning Tree technique we have extracted sets of filaments, of wall-like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Doroshkevich , D. L. Tucker , S. Allam

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

Filaments and clusters of the cosmic web have an impact on the properties of galaxies, switching off their star-formation, contributing to the build-up of their stellar mass, and influencing the acquisition of their angular momentum. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Nicola Malavasi , Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Céline Gouin

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

The formation and evolution of galaxies cannot be separated from large scale structure growth. Dark matter halos (and, therefore, galaxies) form and grow within the cosmic web - the classification of large-scale structure as distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Rita Tojeiro , Katarina Kraljic

Using a sample of 133 991 galaxies distributed in the sky region $100^{\circ} <\alpha<270^{\circ}$ and $7^{\circ}<\delta<65^{\circ}$, extracted from the SDSS NASA/AMES Value Added Galaxy Catalog (AMES-VAGC), we estimate the fractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 T. Canavesi , T. E. Tapia

Upcoming wide-field surveys are well-suited to studying the growth of galaxy clusters by tracing galaxy and gas accretion along cosmic filaments. We use hydrodynamic simulations of volumes surrounding 324 clusters from \textsc{The…

We apply simple analyses techniques developed for the study of complex networks to the study of the cosmic web, the large scale galaxy distribution. In this paper, we measure three network centralities (ranks of topological importance),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sungryong Hong , Arjun Dey

This paper studies the distribution of chain and maximal chain lengths in a causal set. We first provide a new derivation for these distributions for a causal set uniformly embedded in Minkowski space, for various dimensionalities, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-15 M. Aghili , L. Bombelli , BB Pilgrim

Suppose we have identified three clusters of galaxies as being topological copies of the same object. How does this information constrain the possible models for the shape of our Universe? It is shown here that, if the Universe has flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. I. Gomero

Bulk flows of galaxies moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background are well established observationally and seen in the most recent LCDM simulations. With the aid of an idealised Gadget-2 simulation, we show that void asymmetries…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sanjib Sharma