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The cosmic web is one of the most striking features of the distribution of galaxies and dark matter on the largest scales in the Universe. It is composed of dense regions packed full of galaxies, long filamentary bridges, flattened sheets…

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…

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The large scale galaxy and matter distribution is often described by means of the cosmic web made up of voids, sheets, filaments and knots. Many different recipes exist for identifying this cosmic web. Here we focus on a sub-class of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Simon Pfeifer , Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki , Krishna Naidoo

The main feature of the spatial large-scale galaxy distribution is its intricate network of galaxy filaments. This network is spanned by the galaxy locations that can be interpreted as a three-dimensional point distribution. The global…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , V. J. Martinez , L. J. Liivamägi , G. Castellan , E. Saar

We present a statistical study of the filamentary structures of the cosmic web in the large hydro-dynamical simulations Illustris-TNG, Illustris, and Magneticum at redshift z=0. We focus on the radial distribution of the galaxy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Céline Gouin , Nicola Malavasi

The cosmic web consists of a nested hierarchy of structures: voids, walls, filaments, and clusters. These structures interconnect and can encompass one another, collectively shaping an intricate network. Here we introduce the Hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 M. A. Aragon-Calvo

Filaments are elongated structures that connect groups and clusters of galaxies and are visually the striking feature in cosmological maps. In the literature, typically filaments are defined only using galaxies, assuming that these are good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Daria Zakharova , Benedetta Vulcani , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Michaela Hirschmann , Fabio Fontanot

Galaxies are arranged in interconnected walls and filaments forming a cosmic web encompassing huge, nearly empty, regions between the structures. Many statistical methods have been proposed in the past in order to describe the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J-L. Starck , V. J. Martinez , D. L. Donoho , O. Levi , P. Querre , E. Saar

The latticework structure known as the cosmic web provides a valuable insight into the assembly history of large-scale structures. Despite the variety of methods to identify the cosmic web structures, they mostly rely on the assumption that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Yikun Zhang , Rafael S. de Souza , Yen-Chi Chen

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

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

The detection and characterization of filamentary structures in the cosmic web allows cosmologists to constrain parameters that dictates the evolution of the Universe. While many filament estimators have been proposed, they generally lack…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

We present a novel method for identifying cosmic web filaments using the IllustrisTNG (TNG100) cosmological simulations and investigate the impact of filaments on galaxies. We compare the use of cosmic density field estimates from the…

In 1970 Zel'dovich published a far-reaching paper presenting a simple equation describing the nonlinear growth of primordial density inhomogeneities. The equation was remarkably successful in explaining the large scale structure in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Bernard J. T. Jones , Rien van de Weygaert

Context. Filamentary structures appear to be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Being able to detect and characterize them is the first step toward understanding their origin, their evolution, and their role in the Galactic cycle of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 J. -S. Carrière , L. Montier , K. Ferrière , I. Ristorcelli

The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

The cosmic web is a highly complex geometrical pattern, with galaxy clusters at the intersection of filaments and filaments at the intersection of walls. Identifying and describing the filamentary network is not a trivial task due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , R. Kipper , E. Saar

Matter evolved under influence of gravity from minuscule density fluctuations. Non-perturbative structure formed hierarchically over all scales, and developed non-Gaussian features in the Universe, known as the Cosmic Web. To fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Siyu He , Yin Li , Yu Feng , Shirley Ho , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Wei Chen , Barnabás Póczos

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

In the context of future large surveys like the Euclid mission, extracting the cosmic web from galaxies at higher redshifts with more statistical power will become feasible, particularly within the group-cluster mass regime. Therefore, it…

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