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Filaments are crucial components of the cosmic web, representing the extensive and aligned distributions of galaxies and gas. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we report the detection of a filament in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jin-Long Xu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang , Nai-Ping Yu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Xiao-Lan Liu , Mei Ai , Yin-Jie Jing , Jie Wang

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

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

We study the potential of weak lensing surveys to detect clusters of galaxies, using a fast Particle Mesh cosmological N-body simulation algorithm specifically tailored to investigate the statistics of these mass-selected clusters. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel

Weak shear maps of the outer regions of clusters have been successfully used to map the distribution of mass at large radii from the cluster center. The typical smoothing lengths employed thus far preclude the systematic study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib

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

Cosmic voids are an important probe of large-scale structure that can constrain cosmological parameters and test cosmological models. We present a new paradigm for void studies: void detection in weak lensing convergence maps. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

The faint 21 cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen in cosmic filaments is expected to be detectable. However, due to its weakness, stacking techniques are required. We assessed two stacking methods--pair stacking and filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuxi Meng , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Hongxiang Chen , Zerui Liu

Strong lensing in galaxy clusters probes properties of dense cores of dark matter halos in mass, studies the distant universe at flux levels and spatial resolutions otherwise unavailable, and constrains cosmological models independently.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Peng Jia , Ruiqi Sun , Nan Li , Yu Song , Runyu Ning , Hongyan Wei , Rui Luo

According to modern cosmological models, galaxies are embedded within cosmic filaments, which supply a continuous flow of pristine gas, fueling star formation and driving their evolution. However, due to their low density, the direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Eshita Banerjee , Sowgat Muzahid , Joop Schaye , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Sean D. Johnson

Filaments connected to galaxy clusters are crucial environments to study the building up of cosmic structures as they funnel matter towards the clusters' deep gravitational potentials. Identifying gas in filaments is a challenge, due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Stefano Gallo , Nabila Aghanim , Céline Gouin , Dominique Eckert , Marian Douspis , Jade Paste , Tony Bonnaire

We report the weak lensing measurement of filaments between Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III/Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS galaxy pairs at $z\sim0.55$, using the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Hiroto Kondo , Hironao Miyatake , Masato Shirasaki , Naoshi Sugiyama , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

This article reviews recent advances in the application of machine learning to weak-lensing cosmology. Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique and powerful probe of the total matter distribution in the Universe, independent of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Masato Shirasaki

In modern hierarchical theories of structure formation, rich clusters of galaxies form at the vertices of a weblike distribution of matter, with filaments emanating from them to large distances and with smaller objects forming and draining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher A. Metzler , Martin White , Chris Loken

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- stellar cores with the filaments suggest a direct link with…

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Galaxy clusters in the Universe occupy the important position of nodes of the cosmic web. They are connected among them by filaments, elongated structures composed of dark matter, galaxies, and gas. The connection of galaxy clusters to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Nicola Malavasi , Jenny G. Sorce , Klaus Dolag , Nabila Aghanim

We present an efficient and robust approach for extracting clusters of galaxies from weak lensing survey data and measuring their properties. We use simple, physically-motivated cluster models appropriate for such sparse, noisy data, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 F. Feroz , P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson

Filaments play a crucial role in providing the necessary environmental conditions for star formation, actively participating in the process. To facilitate the identification and analysis of filaments, we introduce DPConCFil (Directional and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Yu Jiang

Context: In 2.2m MPG-ESO/WFI data we discovered several mass peaks through weak lensing, forming a possible supercluster at redshift 0.45. Through multi-colour wide-field imaging with CFHT/Megaprime and INT/WFC we identify early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-25 Mischa Schirmer , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Konrad Kuijken , Thomas Erben