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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

Galaxy filaments are the dominant feature in the overall structure of the cosmic web. The study of the filamentary web is an important aspect in understanding galaxy evolution and the evolution of matter in the Universe. A map of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Maarja Kruuse , Elmo Tempel , Rain Kipper , Radu S. Stoica

We analyze a volume limited galaxy sample from the SDSS to study the environments of galaxies on different length scales in the local Universe. We measure the local dimension of the SDSS galaxies on different length scales and find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey

Filaments are one of the most prominent features visible in the galaxy distribution. Considering the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven (SDSS DR7), we have analyzed the filamentarity in 11 nearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Biswajit Pandey , Gauri Kulkarni , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tarun Souradeep

Context. Filaments are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and they host star formation. Detecting them in a reliable way is therefore key towards our understanding of the star formation process. Aims. We explore whether supervised machine learning…

The characterization of the internal structure of the superclusters of galaxies (walls, filaments and knots where the clusters are located) is paramount for understanding the formation of the Large Scale Structure and for outlining the…

We present a new method to identify large scale filaments and apply it to a cosmological simulation. Using positions of haloes above a given mass as node tracers, we look for filaments between them using the positions and masses of all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Nelson E. Padilla

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

We present a new algorithm for detecting filamentary structure FilFinder. The algorithm uses the techniques of mathematical morphology for filament identification, presenting a complementary approach to current algorithms which use matched…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-10 Eric W. Koch , Erik W. Rosolowsky

Filaments are clearly visible in galaxy distributions, but they are hardly detected by computer algorithms. Most methods of filament detection can be used only with numerical simulations of a large-scale structure. New simple and effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 Anatoliy V. Tugay

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

The ubiquity of filamentary structure at various scales through out the Galaxy has triggered a renewed interest in their formation, evolution, and role in star formation. The largest filaments can reach up to Galactic scale as part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-09 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Adam Ginsburg , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Sergio Molinari , Eugenio Schisano

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

Dusty magnetized structures observable in the far-infrared (FIR) at high Galactic latitudes are ubiquitous and found to be closely related to HI filaments with coherent velocity structures. Considering dimensionless morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-17 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

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

Despite containing about a half of the total matter in the Universe, at most wavelengths the filamentary structure of the cosmic web is difficult to observe. In this work, we use large unigrid cosmological simulations to investigate how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Mehmet Alpaslan , Benne Willem Holwerda , Andrew Hopkins , Jochen Liske

We report the first weak-lensing detection of a large-scale filament funneling matter onto the core of the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. Our analysis is based on a mosaic of 18 multi-passband images obtained with ACS aboard the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mathilde Jauzac , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Harald Ebeling , Alexie Leauthaud , Cheng-Jiun Ma , Marceau Limousin , Richard Massey , Johan Richard

Numerical simulations and observations show that galaxies are not uniformly distributed in the universe but, rather, they are spread across a filamentary structure. In this large-scale pattern, highly dense regions are linked together by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 T. Bonnaire , N. Aghanim , A. Decelle , M. Douspis

We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jianzhuo Li , Yi Zheng , Weishan Zhu

High resolution surveys reveal that the interstellar medium in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies consists of interlinked hierarchies of filamentary structure and superbubbles extending from galactic to subpc scales. The characterization of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Rachel Pillsworth , Erica Roscoe , Ralph E. Pudritz , Eric W. Koch