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The 80% of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter that comprises the skeleton of the large-scale structure called the Cosmic Web. As the Cosmic Web dictates the motion of all matter in galaxies and inter-galactic media…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sungwook E. Hong , Donghui Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim

We present DisPerSE, a novel approach to the coherent multi-scale identification of all types of astrophysical structures, and in particular the filaments, in the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe. This method and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie

We use the Millennium Simulation to study the relation of galaxies and dark matter haloes to the cosmic web. We define the web as the unique, fully connected, percolating object with (unsmoothed) matter density everywhere exceeding 5.25…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Navdha , Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

We analyse the evolution of cosmological perturbations which leads to the formation of large voids in the distribution of galaxies. We assume that perturbations are spherical and all components of the Universe - radiation, matter and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj

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, 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

The role of the cosmic web in shaping galaxy properties is investigated in the GAMA spectroscopic survey in the redshift range $0.03 \leq z \leq 0.25$. The stellar mass, $u - r$ dust corrected colour and specific star formation rate (sSFR)…

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 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

As an alternative way of describing the cosmological velocity field, we discuss the evolution of rotational invariants constructed from the velocity gradient tensor. Compared with the traditional divergence-vorticity decomposition, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Mark C. Neyrinck , Gregory L. Eyink

We present an information-theoretic analysis of the Cosmic Web that goes beyond the scalar density contrast and exploits the full structure of the tidal deformation tensor. The three eigenvalues ($\lambda_1, \lambda_2, \lambda_3$) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Juan Garcia-Bellido

The standard paradigm for the formation of the Universe suggests that large structures are formed from hierarchical clustering by the continuous accretion of less massive galaxy systems through filaments. In this context, filamentary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Noelia R. Perez , Luis A. Pereyra , Georgina Coldwell , Facundo Rodriguez , Ignacio G. Alfaro , Andrés N. Ruiz

Galaxies evolve within the intricate geometry of the cosmic web, yet the distinct roles of its primary components - nodes and filaments remain incompletely understood. Using the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, we investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Apashanka Das

We introduce The Fabric of the Universe, an art and science collaboration focused on exploring the cosmic web of dark matter with unconventional techniques and materials. We discuss two of our projects in detail. First, we describe a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Benedikt Diemer , Isaac Facio

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

Halo bias is the one of the key ingredients of the halo models. It was shown at a given redshift to be only dependent, to the first order, on the halo mass. In this study, four types of cosmic web environments: clusters, filaments, sheets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Xiaohu Yang , Youcai Zhang , Tianhuan Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Feng Shi , Dylan Tweed , Shijie Li , Wentao Luo , Yi Lu , Lei Yang

The nature versus nurture scenario in galaxy and group evolution is a long-standing problem not yet fully understood on cosmological scales. We study the properties of groups and their central galaxies in different large-scale environments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Anup Poudel , Pekka Heinämäki , Elmo Tempel , Maret Einasto , Heidi Lietzen , Pasi Nurmi

We investigate the influence of large-scale cosmic web environments on galaxy quenching using a volume-limited, stellar mass-matched galaxy sample from SDSS DR18. Galaxies are classified as residing in sheets, filaments, or clusters based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Anindita Nandi , Biswajit Pandey

Our goal is to see how density waves of different scale combine to form voids between galaxy systems of various scale. We perform numerical simulations of structure formation in cubes of size 100 and 256 Mpc/h, with resolutions 256^3 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 J. Einasto , I. Suhhonenko , G. Hütsi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

The large-scale structure of the Universe, as traced by the distribution of galaxies, is now being revealed by large-volume cosmological surveys. The structure is characterized by galaxies distributed along filaments, the filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergei Shandarin , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann