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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

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

In the cosmic web, filaments play a crucial role in connecting walls to clusters and also act as an important stage for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent observational studies claim that filaments have spin. In this study, we examined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Xiao-Xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Wei Wang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

The main feature of the spatial large-scale galaxy distribution is its intricate network of galaxy filaments. This network is spanned by the galaxy locations that can be interpreted as a three-dimensional point distribution. The global…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , V. J. Martinez , L. J. Liivamägi , G. Castellan , E. Saar

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

We present a systematic observational study of the spin alignment between galaxy groups and their central galaxies using a large spectroscopic sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Unlike previous studies based on morphology or major…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Peng Wang

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

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

It has been shown, both in simulations and observationally, that the tidal field of a large galaxy can torque its satellites such that the major axis of satellite galaxies points towards their hosts. This so-called `shape alignment' has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-22 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Chengliang Wei , Xi Kang

Filaments are clearly visible in galaxy distributions, but they are hardly detected by computer algorithms. Most methods of filament detection can be used only with numerical simulations of a large-scale structure. New simple and effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 Anatoliy V. Tugay

We discover alignment of galaxies in clusters by analyzing the distribution of their position angles. We assume that galaxies are aligned, if their number at one 90deg position angle interval is more than twice higher than at another 90deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-08 Hrant M. Tovmassian , J. P. Torres-Papaqui

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 between the spin vectors of galaxy groups and the axes of their nearest cosmic filaments using the TNG300-1 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. By systematically analyzing a large sample of groups, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Hao-da Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

We present the first detection of mass dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with over 2 sigma confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is reconstructed on Mpc scales across GAMA fields…

We use the Millennium Simulation, and an abundance-matching framework, to investigate the dynamical behaviour of galaxy pairs embedded in a cosmological context. Our main galaxy-pair sample, selected to have separations under 250 kpc/h,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jorge Moreno , Asa F. L. Bluck , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton , Paul Torrey , Benjamin P. Moster

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

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

We provide limits on the alignment of galaxy orientations with the direction to the void center for galaxies lying near the edges of voids. We locate spherical voids in volume limited samples of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Anže Slosar , Martin White

We have used a statistical technique "Shuffle" (Bhavsar & Ling 1988; Bharadwaj, Bhavsar & Sheth 2004) in seven nearly two dimensional strips from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Six (SDSS DR6) to test if the statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Biswajit Pandey

We study the alignments of galaxy spin axes with respect to cosmic web filaments as a function of various properties of the galaxies and their constituent bulges and discs. We exploit the SAMI Galaxy Survey to identify 3D spin axes from…