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We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla

We use the Millennium simulation to show that halo clustering varies significantly with cosmic web type. Halos are classified as node, filament, sheet and void halos based on the eigenvalue decomposition of the velocity shear tensor. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher

Halo bias is the one of the key ingredients of the halo models. It was shown at a given redshift to be only dependent, to the first order, on the halo mass. In this study, four types of cosmic web environments: clusters, filaments, sheets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Xiaohu Yang , Youcai Zhang , Tianhuan Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Feng Shi , Dylan Tweed , Shijie Li , Wentao Luo , Yi Lu , Lei Yang

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

The cosmic web structure is studied with the concepts and methods of fractal geometry, employing the adhesion model of cosmological dynamics as a basic reference. The structures of matter clusters and cosmic voids in cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Jose Gaite

A new approach for the classification of the cosmic web is presented. In extension of the previous work of Hahn et al. (2007) and Forero-Romero et al. (2009) the new algorithm is based on the analysis of the velocity shear tensor rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 Yehuda Hoffman , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Noam I. Libeskind , Alexander Knebe

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

Voids possess a very complex internal structure and dynamics. Using $N$-body simulations we study the hierarchical nature of sub-structures present in the cosmic web (CW). We use the SpineWeb method which provides a complete…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Mariana Jaber , Marius Peper , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo , Octavio Valenzuela

The formation and evolution of galaxies cannot be separated from large scale structure growth. Dark matter halos (and, therefore, galaxies) form and grow within the cosmic web - the classification of large-scale structure as distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Rita Tojeiro , Katarina Kraljic

The standard paradigm for the formation of the Universe suggests that large structures are formed from hierarchical clustering by the continuous accretion of less massive galaxy systems through filaments. In this context, filamentary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Noelia R. Perez , Luis A. Pereyra , Georgina Coldwell , Facundo Rodriguez , Ignacio G. Alfaro , Andrés N. Ruiz

The cosmic web plays a major role in the formation and evolution of galaxies and defines, to a large extent, their properties. However, the relation between galaxies and environment is still not well understood. Here we present a machine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Jianan Hui , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Xinping Cui , James M. Flegal

We study the cosmological information contained in the cosmic web, categorized as four structure types: nodes, filaments, walls, and voids, using the Quijote simulations and a modified nexus+ algorithm. We show that splitting the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 James Sunseri , Adrian E. Bayer , Jia Liu

The Cosmic Web is a complex network of filaments, walls and voids that represent the largest structures in the Universe. In this network, which is the direct result of structure formation, galaxy clusters occupy central positions as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Nicola Malavasi , Nabila Aghanim , Hideki Tanimura , Victor Bonjean , Marian Douspis

Accurate modeling of galaxy distributions is paramount for cosmological analysis using galaxy redshift surveys. However, this endeavor is often hindered by the computational complexity of resolving the dark matter halos that host these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 J. M. Coloma-Nadal , F. -S. Kitaura , J. E. García-Farieta , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole , D. Forero Sánchez

We trace the connectivity of the cosmic web as defined by haloes in the Planck-Millennium simulation using a persistence and Betti curve analysis. We normalise clustering up to the second-order correlation function, and use our systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Raul Bermejo , Georg Wilding , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Gert Vegter , Konstantinos Efstathiou

Using a set of high-resolution simulations we study the statistical correlation of dark matter halo properties with the large-scale environment. We consider halo populations split into four Cosmic Web (CW) elements: voids, walls, filaments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard T. Jones

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall…

We follow the evolution of galaxy systems in numerical simulation. Our goal is to understand the role of density perturbations of various scales in the formation and evolution of the cosmic web. We perform numerical simulations with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-28 I. Suhhonenko , J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , G. Hütsi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

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