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The Large-Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe is a homogeneous network of galaxies separated in dense complexes, the superclusters of galaxies, and almost empty voids. The superclusters are young structures that did not have time to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-13 I. Santiago-Bautista , C. A. Caretta , H. Bravo-Alfaro , E. Pointecouteau , F. Madrigal

Previous studies using numerical simulations have demonstrated that the shape of the cosmic web can be described by studying the Lagrangian displacement field. We extend these analyses, showing that it is now possible to perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin Wandelt , Will Percival

Studies of disordered heterogeneous media and galaxy cosmology share a common goal: analyzing the distribution of particles at `microscales' to predict physical properties at `macroscales', whether for a liquid, composite material, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Salvatore Torquato

Galaxy clusters are located at the nodes of the filamentary network known as the cosmic web. A more comprehensive understanding of galaxy clusters can be achieved by considering their environment, in particular, the filamentary structures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sara Santoni , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andrés , Antonio Ferragamo , Raphaël Wicker

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. The relationship between dark matter density fields and galaxy distributions can be sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Core Francisco Park , Victoria Ono , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

A method to compute the full hierarchy of the critical subsets of a density field is presented. It is based on a watershed technique and uses a probability propagation scheme to improve the quality of the segmentation by circumventing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Sousbie , S. Colombi , C. Pichon

We describe an innovative statistical approach for the ab initio simultaneous analysis of the formation history and morphology of the large-scale structure of the inhomogeneous Universe. Our algorithm explores the joint posterior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Florent Leclercq , Benjamin Wandelt

In this work we present a new catalogue of Cosmic Filaments obtained from the latest Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) public data. In order to detect filaments, we implement a version of the Subspace-Constrained Mean-Shift algorithm, boosted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 Javier Carrón Duque , Marina Migliaccio , Domenico Marinucci , Nicola Vittorio

Studying the structures (halos and galaxies) within the cosmic environments (void, sheet, filament, and node) where they reside is an ongoing attempt in cosmological studies. The link between the properties of structures and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Hossein Hatamnia , Shant Baghram

Voids possess a very complex internal structure and dynamics. Using $N$-body simulations we study the hierarchical nature of sub-structures present in the cosmic web (CW). We use the SpineWeb method which provides a complete…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Mariana Jaber , Marius Peper , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo , Octavio Valenzuela

The statistical properties of cosmic structures are well known to be strong probes for cosmology. In particular, several studies tried to use the cosmic void counting number to obtain tight constrains on Dark Energy. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Jean-Michel Alimi , Paul de Fromont

The universe in large scales is structured as a network known as cosmic web. Filaments are one of the structural components of this web, which can be introduced as a novel probe to study the formation and evolution of structures and as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Sina Taamoli , Shant Baghram

One of the major science goals over the coming decade is to test fundamental physics with probes of the cosmic large-scale structure out to high redshift. Here we present a fully Bayesian approach to infer the three-dimensional cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Natalia Porqueres , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten Enßlin

We explore the effects of massive neutrinos on the cosmic web using the FLAMINGO simulations. We classify the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters, and find that massive neutrinos affect the environment by decreasing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Leonor N. L. Simões , Krishna Naidoo , Benjamin Joachimi , Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk

The problem of detecting dark matter filaments in the cosmic web is considered. Weak lensing is an ideal probe of dark matter, and therefore forms the basis of particularly promising detection methods. We consider and develop a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 James M. G. Mead , Lindsay J. King , Ian G. McCarthy

We trace the connectivity of the cosmic web as defined by haloes in the Planck-Millennium simulation using a persistence and Betti curve analysis. We normalise clustering up to the second-order correlation function, and use our systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Raul Bermejo , Georg Wilding , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Gert Vegter , Konstantinos Efstathiou

We present, for the first time, a Local Universe (LU) characterization using high precision constrained $N$-body simulations based on self-consistent phase-space reconstructions of the large-scale structure in the Two-Micron All-Sky Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 Sebastian E. Nuza , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Hess , Noam I. Libeskind , Volker Mueller

Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Men'shchikov

Non-Gaussianities of dynamical origin are disentangled from primordial ones using the formalism of large deviation statistics with spherical collapse dynamics. This is achieved by relying on accurate analytical predictions for the one-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Cora Uhlemann , Enrico Pajer , Christophe Pichon , Takahiro Nishimichi , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau

Surveys of the cosmic large-scale structure carry opportunities for building and testing cosmological theories about the origin and evolution of the Universe. This endeavor requires appropriate data assimilation tools, for establishing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 Florent Leclercq