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We investigate the nonlinear evolution of cosmic morphologies of the large-scale structure by examining the Lagrangian dynamics of various tensors of a cosmic fluid element, including the velocity gradient tensor, the Hessian matrix of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Job Feldbrugge , Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert

Gravitational-collapse-based explanations of the cosmic web lead to problems in estimating the total mass in the universe. A first-principles several-scales model is developed here for the structural organisation of cosmic matter in a flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-11 Raphael Blumenfeld

The formation and evolution of galaxies cannot be separated from large scale structure growth. Dark matter halos (and, therefore, galaxies) form and grow within the cosmic web - the classification of large-scale structure as distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Rita Tojeiro , Katarina Kraljic

We report on two quantitative, morphological estimators of the filamentary structure of the Cosmic Web, the so-called global and local skeletons. The first, based on a global study of the matter density gradient flow, allows us to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Christophe Pichon , Christophe Gay , Dmitry Pogosyan , Simon Prunet , Thierry Sousbie , Stephane Colombi , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt

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

We follow the evolution of galaxy systems in numerical simulation. Our goal is to understand the role of density perturbations of various scales in the formation and evolution of the cosmic web. We perform numerical simulations with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-28 I. Suhhonenko , J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , G. Hütsi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-05 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

Despite containing about a half of the total matter in the Universe, at most wavelengths the filamentary structure of the cosmic web is difficult to observe. In this work, we use large unigrid cosmological simulations to investigate how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Mehmet Alpaslan , Benne Willem Holwerda , Andrew Hopkins , Jochen Liske

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

We quantify the evolution of matter and galaxy clustering in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations via correlation and bias functions of matter and galaxies. We use simulations TNG100 and TNG300 with epochs from $z=5$ to $z=0$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jaan Einasto , Gert Hütsi , Lauri-Juhan Liivamägi , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Istval Szapudi , Maret Einasto

The cosmic web is one of the most complex systems in nature, consisting of galaxies and clusters of galaxies joined by filaments and walls, leaving large empty regions called cosmic voids. The most common method of describing the web is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jaan Einasto

A dynamical classification of the cosmic web is proposed. The large scale environment is classified into four web types: voids, sheets, filaments and knots. The classification is based on the evaluation of the deformation tensor, i.e. the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 J. E. Forero-Romero , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , A. Klypin , G. Yepes

We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla

The universe's large-scale structure forms a vast, interconnected network of filaments, sheets, and voids known as the cosmic web. For decades, astronomers have observed that the orientations of neighboring galaxy clusters within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Michael J. West , Roberto De Propris , Maret Einasto , Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

The large scale structure of the universe is a complex web of clusters, filaments, and voids. Its properties are informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar velocities. Wiener Filter reconstructions recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helene M. Courtois , Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Yehuda Hoffman , Denis Courtois

We apply discrete Morse theory, global topology, and persistent homology to characterize the impact of massive neutrinos on the multiscale cosmic web, focusing on filaments. The topology of the cosmic web is sensitive to neutrino imprints,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Graziano Rossi , Hogyun Yu , Michaël Michaux

The strikingly anisotropic large-scale distribution of matter made of an extended network of voids delimited by sheets, themselves segmented by filaments, within which matter flows towards compact nodes where they intersect, imprints its…

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

A review on the properties and dynamical origin and nature of the cosmic foam, the tenuous space-filling frothy network permeating the interior of the Universe. We discuss the properties of this striking and intriguing pattern, describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert