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We investigate the evolution of cosmic web since $z=5$ in grid based cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the mass and velocity field of both baryonic and cold dark matter. The tidal tensor of density is used as the main…

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We introduce a spectral hierarchy of cosmic-web classifications obtained by applying simple scale-weighting kernels to the density field before performing a standard eigenvalue-based web classification. This unifies and extends several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia

This work investigates the connection between the cosmic web and the halo distribution through the gravitational potential at the field level. We combine three fields of research, cosmic web classification, perturbation theory expansions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez , Francesco Sinigaglia , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

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

We investigate the characteristics and the time evolution of the cosmic web from redshift, z=2, to present time, within the framework of the NEXUS+ algorithm. This necessitates the introduction of new analysis tools optimally suited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk

We present a novel method of robust probabilistic cosmic web particle classification in three dimensions using a supervised machine learning algorithm. Training data was generated using a simplified $\Lambda$CDM toy model with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Brandon Buncher , Matias Carrasco Kind

The alignment of DM halos and the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) is examined in the context of the cosmic web. Halo spin, shape and the orbital angular momentum of subhaloes is investigated relative to the LSS using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Jaime Forero-Romero , Stefan Gottlöber , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Anatoly Klypin

We investigate the dependence of the galaxy luminosity function on geometric environment within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The tidal tensor prescription, based on the Hessian of the pseudo-gravitational potential, is used…

We study the cosmological information contained in the cosmic web, categorized as four structure types: nodes, filaments, walls, and voids, using the Quijote simulations and a modified nexus+ algorithm. We show that splitting the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 James Sunseri , Adrian E. Bayer , Jia Liu

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

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

We present a new method to find voids in cosmological simulations based on the tidal and the velocity shear tensors definitions of the cosmic web. We use the fractional anisotropy (FA) computed from the eigenvalues of each web scheme as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Sebastian Bustamante , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

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 undertake the first comprehensive and quantitative real-space analysis of the cosmological information content in the environments of the cosmic web (voids, filaments, walls, and nodes) up to non-linear scales, $k = 0.5$ $h$/Mpc. Relying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Tony Bonnaire , Nabila Aghanim , Joseph Kuruvilla , Aurélien Decelle

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most effective construction and the characteristics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. C. Coutinho , Sungryong Hong , Kim Albrecht , Arjun Dey , Albert-László Barabási , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

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 cosmic web structure is studied with the concepts and methods of fractal geometry, employing the adhesion model of cosmological dynamics as a basic reference. The structures of matter clusters and cosmic voids in cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Jose Gaite

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…