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Aims. With the aim of performing an analysis of the orientations of galaxy pair systems with respect to the underlying large-scale structure, we study the alignment between the axis connecting the pair galaxies and the host cosmic filament…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Valeria Mesa , Fernanda Duplancic , Sol Alonso , M. Rosa Muñoz Jofré , Georgina Coldwell , Diego G. Lambas

Using a large observational sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the spatial alignment between galaxy pairs and their local cosmic filaments. Focusing on pairs with stellar masses and separations comparable to the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Peng Wang

We investigate how galaxy pairs are oriented in three dimensions within cosmic filaments using data from the EAGLE simulation. We identify filament spines using DisPerSE and isolate galaxies residing in filamentary environments. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey

The orientations of the red galaxies in a filament are aligned with the orientation of the filament. We thus develop a location-alignment-method (LAM) of detecting filaments around clusters of galaxies, which uses both the alignments of red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-29 Yu Rong , Yuan Liu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Galaxies properties are known to be affected by their environment. One important question is how their angular momentum reflects the surrounding cosmic web. We use the SDSS to investigate the spin axes of spiral and elliptical galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Elmo Tempel , Noam I. Libeskind

The accretion of satellites onto central galaxies along vast cosmic filaments is an apparent outcome of the anisotropic collapse of structure in our Universe. Numerical work (based on gravitational dynamics of N-body simulations) indicates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Tempel , Q. Guo , R. Kipper , N. I. Libeskind

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 present a new algorithm to detect inter-cluster galaxy filaments based upon the assumption that the orientations of constituent galaxies along such filaments are non-isotropic. We apply the algorithm to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

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

Context. The main feature of the spatial large-scale galaxy distribution is an intricate network of galaxy filaments. Although many attempts have been made to quantify this network, there is no unique and satisfactory recipe for that yet.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. S. Stoica , V. J. Martinez , E. Saar

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

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

Leveraging the datasets of galaxy triplets and large-scale filaments obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we scrutinize the alignment of the three sides of the triangles formed by galaxy triplets and the normal vectors of the triplet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-21 Yu Rong , Jinzhi Shen , Zichen Hua

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

In this paper we analyse the alignment of galaxy groups with the surrounding large scale structure traced by spectroscopic galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We characterise these alignments by means of an extension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dante J. Paz , Mario A. Sgró , Manuel Merchán , Nelson Padilla

Context. Galaxies in the Universe form chains (filaments) that connect groups and clusters of galaxies. The filamentary network includes nearly half of the galaxies and is visually the most striking feature in cosmological maps. Aims. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 E. Tempel , R. Kipper , E. Saar , M. Bussov , A. Hektor , J. Pelt

In this paper, we study the filamentary structures and the galaxy alignment along filaments at redshift $z=0.06$ in the MassiveBlack-II simulation, a state-of-the-art, high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation which includes…

Previous studies have shown the filamentary structures in the cosmic web influence the alignments of nearby galaxies. We study this effect in the LOWZ sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using the "Cosmic Web Reconstruction" filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jonathan Blazek , Siyu He , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peter Melchior , Sukhdeep Singh

Aims. This work provides an analysis of how the galaxy number density of the input data affects the filaments detected with the Bisous filament finder and gives estimates of the reliability of the method itself to assess the robustness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Moorits Mihkel Muru , Elmo Tempel

The cosmic web is a highly complex geometrical pattern, with galaxy clusters at the intersection of filaments and filaments at the intersection of walls. Identifying and describing the filamentary network is not a trivial task due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , R. Kipper , E. Saar
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