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The recently introduced discrete persistent structure extractor (DisPerSE, Soubie 2010, paper I) is implemented on realistic 3D cosmological simulations and observed redshift catalogues (SDSS); it is found that DisPerSE traces equally well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie , Christophe Pichon , Hajime Kawahara

Detecting the large-scale structure of the Universe based on the galaxy distribution and characterising its components is of fundamental importance in astrophysics but is also a difficult task to achieve. Wide-area spectroscopic redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nicola Malavasi , Nabila Aghanim , Marian Douspis , Hideki Tanimura , Victor Bonjean

We present the DIScrete PERsistent Structures Extractor (DisPerSE), an open source software for the automatic and robust identification of structures in 2D and 3D noisy data sets. The software is designed to identify all sorts of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 Thierry Sousbie

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

The lecture notes describe the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator for Cosmic Web analysis. The high sensitivity of Voronoi/Delaunay tessellations to the local point distribution is used to obtain estimates of density and related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Rien van de Weygaert , Willem Schaap

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall…

We apply discrete Morse theory, global topology, and persistent homology to characterize the impact of massive neutrinos on the multiscale cosmic web, focusing on filaments. The topology of the cosmic web is sensitive to neutrino imprints,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Graziano Rossi , Hogyun Yu , Michaël Michaux

We demonstrate that the Discrete Persistent Source Extractor (DisPerSE) can be used with spectroscopic redshifts to define the cosmic web and its distance to galaxies in small area deepfields. Here we analyze the use of DisPerSE to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-11 Nicholas Luber , J. H. van Gorkom , Kelley M. Hess , D. J. Pisano , Ximena Fernandez , Emmanuel Momjian

We present the SpineWeb framework for the topological analysis of the Cosmic Web and the identification of its walls, filaments and cluster nodes. Based on the watershed segmentation of the cosmic density field, the SpineWeb method invokes…

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

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

We introduce the NEXUS algorithm for the identification of Cosmic Web environments: clusters, filaments, walls and voids. This is a multiscale and automatic morphological analysis tool that identifies all the cosmic structures in a scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

In the regime of cosmology and large-scale structure formation, filaments are vital components of the cosmic web. This study employs statistical methods to examine the formation, evolution, and cosmological constraints of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Ziyong Wu , Yu Luo , Wei Wang , Xi Kang , Renyue Cen

We discuss the intimate relationship between the filamentary features and the rare dense compact cluster nodes in this network, via the large scale tidal field going along with them, following the cosmic web theory developed Bond et al. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert

We present a comprehensive analysis of the radial dark-matter (DM) density profiles of cosmic filaments in the hydrodynamical simulation TNG50. The cosmic web is extracted from high-resolution density grids at redshifts $z =$ 0, 0.5, 1, 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Peng Xu , Fangzhou Jiang , Farhanul Hasan , Joanna Woo , Douglas Hellinger , Joel R. Primack , Sandra M. Faber , David Koo

Galaxy cluster mass halos ("clusters") in a dark matter simulation are matched to nodes in several different cosmic webs found using the Disperse cosmic web finder. The webs have different simulation smoothings and Disperse parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 J. D. Cohn

Understanding the structure of the matter distribution in the Universe due to the action of the gravitational instability -- the cosmic web -- is complicated by lack of direct analytic access to the nonlinear domain of structure formation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei Shandarin , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

We introduce a multiscale topological description of the Megaparsec weblike cosmic matter distribution. Betti numbers and topological persistence offer a powerful means of describing the rich connectivity structure of the cosmic web and of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Pratyush Pranav , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Rien van de Weygaert , Gert Vegter , Michael Kerber , Bernard J. T. Jones , Mathijs Wintraecken

The large-scale structure of the Universe is characterised by a web-like structure made of voids, sheets, filaments, and knots. The structure of this so-called cosmic web is dictated by the local velocity shear tensor. In particular, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , N. I. Libeskind , Y. Hoffman , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm
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