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Galaxies are not distributed randomly in the cosmic web but are instead arranged in filaments and sheets surrounding cosmic voids. Observationally there is still no convincing evidence of a link between the properties of galaxies and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , E. Saar

The properties of galaxies are known to have been influenced by the large-scale structures that they inhabit. Theory suggests that galaxies acquire angular momentum during the linear stage of structure formation, and hence predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yuvraj Muralichandran , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel

We investigate the alignment of galaxies and haloes relative to cosmic web filaments using the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation. We identify filaments by applying the NEXUS+ method to the mass distribution and the Bisous formalism to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Elmo Tempel , Rien van de Weygaert , Carlos S. Frenk

Galaxies, as well as their satellites, are known to form within the cosmic web: the large, multi-scale distribution of matter in the universe. It is known that the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) can impact and influence the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-17 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

The theory of galaxy formation posits a clear correlation between the spin of galaxies and the orientation of the elements of the large-scale structure of the Universe, particularly cosmic filaments. A substantial number of observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 A. V. Antipova , D. I. Makarov , N. Libeskind , E. Tempel

Understanding the origin of galactic angular momentum and its connection to the cosmic web remains a pivotal issue in galaxy formation. Using kinematic data from the MaNGA survey, we investigate the alignment between the spin directions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Hao-da Wang , Peng Wang , Min Bao , Yanmei Chen , Xiao-xiao Tang , Youcai Zhang , Xi Kang , Quan Guo , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu

Using a sample of galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we examine the alignment between the orientation of galaxies and their surrounding large scale structure in the context of the cosmic web.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-05 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

Observational studies have reported that cosmic filaments on the megaparsec scale exhibit rotational motion. Subsequent simulation studies have shown qualitative agreement with these findings, but quantitative discrepancies remain due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Peng Wang , Xiao-Xiao Tang , Hao-Da Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Wei Wang , Youcai Zhang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bernard J. T. Jones , Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

We study the spin alignment of galaxies and halos with respect to filaments and walls of the cosmic web, identified with DisPerSE, using the SIMBA simulation from z=0-2. Massive halos' spins are oriented perpendicularly to their closest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Katarina Kraljic , Romeel Dave , Christophe Pichon

This work investigates the alignment of galactic spins with the cosmic web across cosmic time using the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. The cosmic web structure is extracted via the persistent skeleton as implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Codis , A. Jindal , N. E. Chisari , D. Vibert , Y. Dubois , C. Pichon , J. Devriendt

Using the Horizon-AGN simulation we find a mass dependent spin orientation trend for galaxies: the spin of low-mass, rotation-dominated, blue, star-forming galaxies are preferentially aligned with their closest filament, whereas high-mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 charlotte Welker , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Christophe Pichon , Sebastien Peirani

Halos and galaxies acquire their angular momentum during the collapse of surrounding large-scale structure. This process imprints alignments between galaxy spins and nearby filaments and sheets. Low mass halos grow by accretion onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Alex Krolewski , Shirley Ho , Yen-Chi Chen , P. F. Chan , Ananth Tenneti , Dmitry Bizyaev , Katarina Kraljic

Most cosmological structures in the universe spin. Although structures in the universe form on a wide variety of scales from small dwarf galaxies to large super clusters, the generation of angular momentum across these scales is poorly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

We investigate the alignment between the angular momenta of galaxy groups and the spines of their associated cosmic filaments. Our results demonstrate a significant tendency for these two orientations to be perpendicular, indicating that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Yu Rong , Peng Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

Tidal torque theory suggests that galaxies gain angular momentum in the linear stage of structure formation. Such a theory predicts alignments between the spin of haloes and tidal shear field. However, non-linear evolution and angular…

Context. Gravitational collapse theory and numerical simulations suggest that the velocity field within large-scale galaxy filaments is dominated by motions along the filaments. Aims. Our aim is to check whether observational data reveal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Elmo Tempel , Antti Tamm

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

We employ a semi-analytical methodology to estimate the dark matter halo spin of HI-rich galaxies in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Alfa Survey and investigate the relationship between halo spin and the proximity of galaxies to cosmic filaments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Shihong Liu , Yu Rong

We investigate the impact of filament and void environments on galaxies, looking for residual effects beyond the known relations with environment density. We quantified the host environment of galaxies as the distance to the spine of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Teet Kuutma , Antti Tamm , Elmo Tempel
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