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In this paper, we model the bounce phase, stability, and the reconstruction of the universe by non-minimal kinetic coupling. In the process, we obtained importance information about the energy density and the matter pressure of the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Alireza Amani , A. S. Kubeka , E. Mahichi

The Large Scale Structure (LSS) found in galaxy redshift surveys and in computer simulations of cosmic structure formation shows a very complex network of galaxy clusters, filaments, and sheets around large voids. Here, we introduce a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Colberg

For over twenty years, the term 'cosmic web' has guided our understanding of the large-scale arrangement of matter in the cosmos, accurately evoking the concept of a network of galaxies linked by filaments. But the physical correspondence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Mark C. Neyrinck , Johan Hidding , Marina Konstantatou , Rien van de Weygaert

Matter distribution around clusters is highly anisotropic from their being the nodes of the cosmic web. Clusters' shape and the number of filaments they are connected to, i.e., their connectivity, should reflect their level of anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 C. Gouin , T. Bonnaire , N Aghanim

We seek to understand the relationship between galaxy properties and their local environment, which calls for a proper formulation of the notion of environment. We analyse the GIMIC suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Ofer Metuki , Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Robert A. Crain , Tom Theuns

Using the results of a high-resolution, cosmological hydrodynamical re-simulation of a supercluster-like region we investigate the physical properties of the gas located along the filaments and bridges which constitute the so-called cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Dolag , M. Meneghetti , L. Moscardini , E. Rasia , A. Bonaldi

In this paper we explore the use of spatial clustering algorithms as a new computational approach for modeling the cosmic web. We demonstrate that such algorithms are efficient in terms of computing time needed. We explore three distinct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dimitrios Kelesis , Spyros Basilakos , Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta , Dimitris Fotakis , Andreas Efstathiou

In this paper we study the large scale structures and their galaxy content around the most X-ray luminous cluster known, RX J1347.5-1145 at z=0.45. We make use of ugriz CFHT MEGACAM photometry and VIMOS VLT spectroscopy to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Verdugo , M. Lerchster , H. Boehringer , H. Hildebrandt , B. L. Ziegler , T. Erben , A. Finoguenov , G. Chon

Voids are dominant features of the cosmic web. We revisit the cosmological information content of voids and connect void properties with the parameters of the background universe. We combine analytical results with a suite of large n-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Benjamin C. Bromley , Margaret J. Geller

The connections among galaxies, the dark matter halos where they form and the properties of the large-scale Cosmic Web still need to be completely disentangled. We use the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation TNG100 of the IllustrisTNG…

The caustic skeleton is a parameter-free and mathematically rigorous formalism for tracing the hierarchical formation history of the multiscale cosmic web from the singularities in the underlying dark matter flow. In the present study, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Benjamin Hertzsch , Job Feldbrugge , Rien van de Weygaert

Cellular systems are observed everywhere in nature, from crystal domains in metals, soap froth and cucumber cells to the network of cosmological voids. Surprisingly, despite their disparate scale and origin all cellular systems follow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Miguel A. Aragón-Calvo

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

In this review we discuss several aspects of Cosmic Voids. Voids are a major component of the large scale distribution of matter and galaxies in the Universe. They are of instrumental importance for understanding the emergence of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rien van de Weygaert , Erwin Platen

We develop an analysis pipeline for characterizing the topology of large scale structure and extracting cosmological constraints based on persistent homology. Persistent homology is a technique from topological data analysis that quantifies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

Cosmic filaments, the most prominent features of the cosmic web, possibly hold untapped potential for cosmological inference. While it is natural to expect the structure of filaments to show universality similar to that seen in dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Saee Dhawalikar , Aseem Paranjape

Cosmic voids are low-mass-density regions on intergalactic scales. They are where cosmic expansion and acceleration are most dominant, important places to understand and analyze for cosmology. This entry summarises theoretical underpinnings…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yan-Chuan Cai , Mark Neyrinck

Context. The spatial distribution of haloes in the Cosmic Web encodes a wealth of information about the underlying cosmological model. These haloes can be represented as nodes of a graph, whose structural properties reflect cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Anton Rudakovskyi , Franco Vazza , Maksym Tsizh

Halos, filaments, sheets and voids in the cosmic web can be defined in terms of the eigenvalues of the smoothed shear tensor and a threshold $\lambda_{\rm th}$. Using analytic methods, we construct mean maps centered on these types of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Han Aung , J. D. Cohn

According to the current standard model of Cosmology, matter in the Universe arranges itself along a network of filamentary structure. These filaments connect the main nodes of this so-called 'Cosmic Web', which are clusters of galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matteo Maturi , Julian Merten