English
Related papers

Related papers: Crawling the Cosmic Network: Identifying and Quant…

200 papers

We present findings of 3D filamentary structures in the Smith Cloud, a high-velocity cloud (HVC) located at $l=38^{\circ}$, $b=-13^{\circ}$. We use data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array \ion{H}{i} (GALFA-\ion{H}{i}) along with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Colin Holm-Hansen , M. E. Putman , D. A. Kim

The structure of the low redshift Universe is dominated by a multi-scale void distribution delineated by filaments and walls of galaxies. The characteristics of voids; such as morphology, average density profile, and correlation function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Manu Aggarwal , Motonari Tonegawa , Stephen Appleby , Changbom Park , Vipul Periwal

We search for the lensing signal of massive filaments between 135,000 pairs of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We develop a new estimator that cleanly removes the much larger shear signal of the neighboring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Joseph Clampitt , Hironao Miyatake , Bhuvnesh Jain , Masahiro Takada

Large-scale filaments ubiquitously exist in the Galactic interstellar medium, and their radial profiles offer insights into their formation mechanisms. We present a statistical analysis of molecular hydrogen column density ($\rm N(H_2)$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Keyun Su , Ke Wang , Fengwei Xu , N. K. Bhadari

Throughout the Milky Way, molecular clouds typically appear filamentary, and mounting evidence indicates that this morphology plays an important role in star formation. What is not known is to what extent the dense filaments most closely…

A variety of subtle, and not-so-subtle selection effects influence the interpretation of galaxy counts, sizes and redshift distributions in the Hubble Deep Field. Comparison of the different HDF catalogs available in the literature and on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry C. Ferguson

Radial and vertical profiles are determined for a sample of 34 edge-on disk galaxies in the HDFs, selected for their apparent diameter larger than 1.3 arcsec and their unperturbed morphology. The thickness and flatness of their galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Reshetnikov , R. -J. Dettmar , F. Combes

We present the results of an exhaustive analysis of the morphological segregation of galaxies in the CfA and SSRS catalogs through the scaling formalism. Morphological segregation between ellipticals and spirals has been detected at scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , A. Campos , M. A. Gómez-Flechoso , G. Yepes

Previous studies have shown the filamentary structures in the cosmic web influence the alignments of nearby galaxies. We study this effect in the LOWZ sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using the "Cosmic Web Reconstruction" filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jonathan Blazek , Siyu He , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peter Melchior , Sukhdeep Singh

In paper I, we obtained an equation for the evolution of density inhomogeneities in a radiation dominated universe when they are affected by magnetic fields. In this second paper we apply this equation to the case in which the subjacent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. Florido , E. Battaner

From a volume limited sample of 45,542 galaxies and 6,000 groups with $z \leq 0.213$ we use an adapted minimal spanning tree algorithm to identify and classify large scale structures within the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Using…

The properties of galaxies are known to be affected by their environment, but although galaxies in clusters and groups have been quite thoroughly investigated, little is known presently on galaxies belonging to filaments of the cosmic web,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 A. Ellien , F. Durret , C. Adami , N. Martinet , C. Lobo , M. Jauzac

Galaxies, as well as their satellites, are known to form within the cosmic web: the large, multi-scale distribution of matter in the universe. It is known that the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) can impact and influence the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-17 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

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 investigate the evolution of dark matter halo spin alignments with respect to cosmic filaments, exploring how halo mass, proximity to filaments, and major mergers influence their orientation over time. We perform a suite of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 David Tobar , Rory Smith , Antonio Montero-Dorta , Katarina Kraljic , Pablo López

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

The ubiquitous presence of filamentary structures in the interstellar medium asks for an unbiased characterization of their properties including a stability analysis. We propose a novel technique to measure the spectrum of filaments in any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Volker Ossenkopf-Okada , Rodion Stepanov

We present the first detection of mass dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with over 2 sigma confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is reconstructed on Mpc scales across GAMA fields…

This study presents the first extended comparison of cosmic filaments identified in SDSS DR10 observations ($z < 0.05$) and the IllustrisTNG300-1 $\Lambda$CDM simulation ($z = 0$), utilizing the novel GrAviPaSt filament-finder method. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Saeed Tavasoli , Parsa Ghafour

We present an information-theoretic analysis of the Cosmic Web that goes beyond the scalar density contrast and exploits the full structure of the tidal deformation tensor. The three eigenvalues ($\lambda_1, \lambda_2, \lambda_3$) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Juan Garcia-Bellido