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Using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) along with haloes from the dark matter only constrained ELUCID (Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field) simulation, we examine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

The morphology of molecular clouds is crucial for understanding their origin and evolution. In this work, we investigate the morphology of the filamentary molecular clouds (filaments for short) using a portion of the $^{12}\text{CO}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-26 Wen Ge , Fujun Du , Lixia Yuan

We propose a new technique to directly measure the shapes of dark matter halos of galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. Extending the standard galaxy-galaxy lensing method, we show that the shape parameters of the mass distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Priyamvada Natarajan , Alexandre Refregier

Context. Filaments are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and they host star formation. Detecting them in a reliable way is therefore key towards our understanding of the star formation process. Aims. We explore whether supervised machine learning…

Simulations of the formation of large-scale structure predict that dark matter, low density highly ionized gas, and galaxies form 10 40 Mpc scale filaments. These structure are easily recognized in the distribution of galaxies, but have not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 Bart P. Wakker , Audra K. Hernandez , David French , Tae-Sun Kim , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Blair D. Savage

The cosmological principle, as the cornerstone of the standard cosmological model, requires that the Universe be homogeneous and isotropic on large scales. As a fundamental assumption, it is constantly subjected to testing via various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jianping Hu , Chao Geng , Xuandong Jia , Zhaoyu Zuo , Taozhi Yang , Fayin Wang

The Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a spectroscopic survey of the southern sky, which aims to provide positions and velocities of galaxies in the nearby Universe. We present here the adaptive tiling algorithm developed to place…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Lachlan Campbell , Will Saunders , Matthew Colless

A preference for spiral galaxies in one sector of the sky to be left-handed or right-handed spirals would indicate a parity violating asymmetry in the overall universe and a preferred axis. This study uses 15158 spiral galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael J. Longo

Galaxies and clusters embedded in the large-scale structure of the Universe are observed to align in preferential directions. Galaxy alignment has been established as a potential probe for cosmological information, but the application of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Casper J. G. Vedder , Nora Elisa Chisari

Gravitational lensing has now become a popular tool to measure the mass distribution of structures in the Universe on various scales. Here we focus on the study of galaxy's scale dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Limousin , J-P. Kneib , P. Natarajan

Observations indicate that central galaxies show a significant alignment of their main shape axes with other galaxies in their group, as well as with the large-scale structure of the universe. Simulations have corroborated this finding,…

Galaxy filaments are the dominant feature in the overall structure of the cosmic web. The study of the filamentary web is an important aspect in understanding galaxy evolution and the evolution of matter in the Universe. A map of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Maarja Kruuse , Elmo Tempel , Rain Kipper , Radu S. Stoica

Motivated by observational results, we use IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical numerical simulations to study the alignment of the central galaxies in groups with the surrounding structures. This approach allows us to analyse galaxy and group…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , M. Celeste Artale , Moira Andrews

We present the results of a study for galaxy orbits in galaxy clusters using a spectroscopic sample of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We have determined the member galaxies of Abell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ho Seong Hwang , Myung Gyoon Lee

Using a population of large-scale filaments extracted from an AREPO simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, we seek to understand the extent to which observed large-scale filament properties (with lengths $\gtrsim 100$ pc) can be explained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-01 Catherine Zucker , Rowan Smith , Alyssa Goodman

We use a 380 h-1 pc resolution hydrodynamic AMR simulation of a cosmic filament to investigate the orientations of a sample of ~100 well-resolved galactic disks spanning two orders of magnitude in both stellar and halo mass. We find: (i) At…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-12 Oliver Hahn , Romain Teyssier , C. Marcella Carollo

We study weak lensing properties of filaments that connect clusters of galaxies through large cosmological $N$-body simulations. We select 4639 halo pairs with masses higher than $10^{14}h^{-1}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ from the simulations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-27 Yuichi Higuchi , Masamune Oguri , Masato Shirasaki

We present an analysis of the spatial orientations of galaxies in the 247 optically selected rich Abell clusters, having in the considered area at least 100 members. We investigated the relation between angles giving information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Paulina Piwowarska , Elena Panko , Piotr Flin

Galaxy redshift surveys, such as 2dF, SDSS, 6df, GAMA and VIPERS, have shown that the spatial distribution of matter forms a rich web, known as the cosmic web. The majority of galaxy survey analyses measure the amplitude of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Siyu He , Shadab Alam , Simone Ferraro , Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho

The tidal torque theory (TTT) predicts that galaxy spins are correlated with the surrounding tidal field, reflecting how angular momentum is acquired during structure formation. We present a new observational test of this prediction using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Jun-Sung Moon , Teppei Okumura