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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

Galaxy clusters in the Universe occupy the important position of nodes of the cosmic web. They are connected among them by filaments, elongated structures composed of dark matter, galaxies, and gas. The connection of galaxy clusters to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Nicola Malavasi , Jenny G. Sorce , Klaus Dolag , Nabila Aghanim

Using computer simulations we study the geometry of a typical quantum universe, i.e. the geometry one might expect before a possible period of inflation. We display it using coordinates defined by means of four classical scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Ambjorn , Z. Drogosz , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , D. Németh

The cosmic web is one of the most complex systems in nature, consisting of galaxies and clusters of galaxies joined by filaments and walls, leaving large empty regions called cosmic voids. The most common method of describing the web is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jaan Einasto

Modern cosmology predicts that matter in our Universe has assembled today into a vast network of filamentary structures colloquially termed the Cosmic Web. Because this matter is either electromagnetically invisible (i.e., dark) or too…

The strikingly anisotropic large-scale distribution of matter made of an extended network of voids delimited by sheets, themselves segmented by filaments, within which matter flows towards compact nodes where they intersect, imprints its…

We present, for the first time, a Local Universe (LU) characterization using high precision constrained $N$-body simulations based on self-consistent phase-space reconstructions of the large-scale structure in the Two-Micron All-Sky Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 Sebastian E. Nuza , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Hess , Noam I. Libeskind , Volker Mueller

The cosmic vorticity field, an essential tracer of nonlinear structure formation, has remained observationally inaccessible because transverse galaxy motions are difficult to measure and analytic models struggle to capture shell-crossing.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ziyong Wu , Xu Xiao , Fuyu Dong , Juhan Kim , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yang Wang , Xi Kang , Le Zhang , Xin Wang , Xiao-Dong Li

The formation of large voids in the Cosmic Web from the initial adiabatic cosmological perturbations of space-time metric, density and velocity of matter is investigated in cosmological model with the dynamical dark energy accelerating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 B. Novosyadlyj , M. Tsizh

The alignment of DM halos and the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) is examined in the context of the cosmic web. Halo spin, shape and the orbital angular momentum of subhaloes is investigated relative to the LSS using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Jaime Forero-Romero , Stefan Gottlöber , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Anatoly Klypin

Gravitational-collapse-based explanations of the cosmic web lead to problems in estimating the total mass in the universe. A first-principles several-scales model is developed here for the structural organisation of cosmic matter in a flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-11 Raphael Blumenfeld

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

Filaments and sheets are striking visual patterns in cosmic web. The maximum extent of these large-scale structures are difficult to determine due to their structural variety and complexity. We construct a volume-limited sample of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Prakash Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Suman Sarkar

We introduce the NEXUS algorithm for the identification of Cosmic Web environments: clusters, filaments, walls and voids. This is a multiscale and automatic morphological analysis tool that identifies all the cosmic structures in a scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

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

In the context of the cosmological and constrained ELUCID simulation, this study explores the statistical characteristics of filaments within the cosmic web, focussing on aspects such as the distribution of filament lengths and their radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Youcai Zhang , Hong Guo , Xiaohu Yang , Peng Wang

This letter presents a new approach using the cosmic peculiar velocity field to characterize the morphology and size of large scale structures in the local Universe. The algorithm developed uses the three-dimensional peculiar velocity field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 A. Dupuy , H. M. Courtois , F. Dupont , F. Denis , R. Graziani , Y. Copin , D. Pomarede , N. Libeskind , E. Carlesi , B. Tully , D. Guinet

The cosmic web defines the large scale distribution of matter we see in the Universe today. Classifying the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments and nodes allows one to explore structure formation and the role environmental factors have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher , M. S. T. Johnson

On megaparsec scales the Universe is permeated by an intricate filigree of clusters, filaments, sheets and voids, the Cosmic Web. For the understanding of its dynamical and hierarchical history it is crucial to identify objectively its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Erwin Platen , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones