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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

The cosmic web consists of a nested hierarchy of structures: voids, walls, filaments, and clusters. These structures interconnect and can encompass one another, collectively shaping an intricate network. Here we introduce the Hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 M. A. Aragon-Calvo

The large-scale structure of the Universe is distributed in a cosmic web. Studying the distribution and clustering of dark matter particles and halos may open up a new horizon for studying the physics of the dark Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Mohammad Ansarifard , Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

We describe an innovative statistical approach for the ab initio simultaneous analysis of the formation history and morphology of the large-scale structure of the inhomogeneous Universe. Our algorithm explores the joint posterior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Florent Leclercq , Benjamin Wandelt

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 report the results of the first study of the multi-stream environment of dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations in the LCDM cosmology. The full dynamical state of dark matter can be described as a three-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-22 Nesar S. Ramachandra , Sergei F. Shandarin

We analyze the structure and connectivity of the distinct morphologies that define the Cosmic Web. With the help of our Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF), we dissect the matter distribution of a cosmological $\Lambda$CDM N-body computer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

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

Simple analytic arguments are used to understand the predominantly filamentary web in the large-scale distribution of galaxies. Numerical simulations of superclusters are performed to assess the feasibility of directly mapping the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Pogosyan , J. R. Bond , L. Kofman , J. Wadsley

The cosmic web is the largest scale manifestation of the anisotropic gravitational collapse of matter. It represents the transitional stage between linear and non-linear structures and contains easily accessible information about the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk

Galaxies, diffuse gas, and dark matter make up the cosmic web that defines the large-scale structure of the Universe. We constrained the joint distribution of these constituents by cross-correlating galaxy samples binned by stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Raphaël Kou , James G. Bartlett

Halo models of the large scale structure of the Universe are critically examined, focusing on the definition of halos as smooth distributions of cold dark matter. This definition is essentially based on the results of cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 Jose Gaite

We present a new way to formulate the geometry of the Cosmic Web in terms of Lagrangian space. The Adhesion model has an ingenious geometric interpretation out of which the spine of the Cosmic Web emerges naturally. Within this context we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert , Gert Vegter , Bernard J. T. Jones

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

The spatial distribution of galaxies is a highly complex phenomenon currently impossible to predict deterministically. However, by using a statistical $\textit{bias}$ relation, it becomes possible to robustly model the average abundance of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Jens Stücker , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez , Raul E. Angulo , Francisco Maion , Rodrigo Voivodic

We review the analysis of the Cosmic Web by means of an extensive toolset based on the use of Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations. The Cosmic Web is the salient and pervasive foamlike pattern in which matter has organized itself on scales of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Bernard J. T. Jones , Erwin Platen

Observations reveal that on large scales the universe is spanned by a percolating network of superclusters interspersed with large and almost empty regions -- voids. This thesis reports the construction of a sophisticated computational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jatush V. Sheth

The classification of the cosmic web into different environments is both a tool to study in more detail the formation of halos and galaxies via the link between their properties and the large-scale environment and as a class of objects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emma Ayçoberry , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis

The large scale structure of the universe is a complex web of clusters, filaments, and voids. Its properties are informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar velocities. Wiener Filter reconstructions recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helene M. Courtois , Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Yehuda Hoffman , Denis Courtois