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We introduce a multiscale topological description of the Megaparsec weblike cosmic matter distribution. Betti numbers and topological persistence offer a powerful means of describing the rich connectivity structure of the cosmic web and of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Pratyush Pranav , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Rien van de Weygaert , Gert Vegter , Michael Kerber , Bernard J. T. Jones , Mathijs Wintraecken

Filaments and clusters of the cosmic web have an impact on the properties of galaxies, switching off their star-formation, contributing to the build-up of their stellar mass, and influencing the acquisition of their angular momentum. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Nicola Malavasi , Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Céline Gouin

Galaxy clusters are located at the nodes of the filamentary network known as the cosmic web. A more comprehensive understanding of galaxy clusters can be achieved by considering their environment, in particular, the filamentary structures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sara Santoni , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andrés , Antonio Ferragamo , Raphaël Wicker

An open question in cosmology and the theory of structure formation is to what extent does environment affect the properties of galaxies and haloes. The present paper aims at shedding light on this problem. The paper focuses on the analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Ofer Metuki , Noam I Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman

The intrinsic properties of galaxies are influenced by their environments, underscoring the environment's critical role in galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, these environments are categorized into four fixed classifications:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 C. Yamila Yaryura , Mario G. Abadi , Noam I. Libeskind , Stefan Gottlöber , Sofía A. Cora , Gustavo Yepes

The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Job Feldbrugge , Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert

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

Galaxy properties primarily depend on their host halo mass. Halo mass, in turn, depends on the cosmic web environment. We explore if the effect of the cosmic web on galaxy properties is entirely transitive via host halo mass, or if the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Kuan Wang , Camille Avestruz , Hong Guo , Wei Wang , Peng Wang

The "cosmic web", the filamentary large-scale structure in a cold dark matter Universe, is readily apparent via galaxy tracers in spectroscopic surveys. However, the underlying dark matter structure is as of yet unobservable and mapping the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Matthew C. Wilde , Oskar Elek , Joseph N. Burchett , Daisuke Nagai , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jessica Werk , Sarah Tuttle , Angus G. Forbes

The standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) predicts the existence of the cosmic web: a distribution of matter into sheets and filaments connecting massive halos. However, observational evidence has been elusive due to the low surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Lydia M. Elias , Shy Genel , Amiel Sternberg , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Eli Visbal , Nicolas Bouché

Galaxies and galaxy clusters trace the same cosmic density field, but their statistics have been modeled separately in cosmological analyses. We present a unified, simulation-based framework to model them using the galaxy-halo connection.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shulei Cao , Hao-Yi Wu , Andrés N. Salcedo , David H. Weinberg , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Cosmic voids are the largest and most underdense structures in the Universe. Their properties have been shown to encode precious information about the laws and constituents of the Universe. We show that machine learning techniques can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Bonny Y. Wang , Alice Pisani , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The alignments between galaxies, their underlying matter structures, and the cosmic web constitute vital ingredients for a comprehensive understanding of gravity, the nature of matter, and structure formation in the Universe. We provide an…

The formation of dark matter halos tends to occur anisotropically along the filaments of the Cosmic Web, which induces both ellipticity-ellipticity (EE) correlations between the shapes of halos, as well as ellipticity-direction (ED)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jounghun Lee , Volker Springel , Ue-Li Pen , Gerard Lemson

The 11 known satellite galaxies within 250 kpc of the Milky Way lie close to a great circle on the sky. We use high resolution N-body simulations of galactic dark matter halos to test if this remarkable property can be understood within the…

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

We investigate the role of the delineated cosmic web/filaments on the star formation activity by exploring a sample of 425 narrow-band selected H{\alpha} emitters, as well as 2846 color-color selected underlying star-forming galaxies for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Behnam Darvish , David Sobral , Bahram Mobasher , Nicholas Scoville , Philip Best , Laura Sales , Ian Smail

Understanding the cold atomic hydrogen gas (HI) within cosmic filaments has the potential to pin down the relationship between the low density gas in the cosmic web and how the galaxies that lie within it grow using this material. We report…

Large surveys of the local Universe have shown that galaxies with different intrinsic properties, such as colour, luminosity and morphological type display a range of clustering amplitudes. Galaxies are therefore not faithful tracers of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. M. Baugh

Upcoming wide-field spectroscopic surveys will observe galaxies in a range of cosmic web environments in and around galaxy clusters. In this paper, we test and quantify how successfully we will be able to identify the environment of…