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Dark matter haloes in cosmological filaments and walls have their spin vector aligned (in average) with their host structure. While haloes in walls are aligned with the plane of the wall independently of their mass, haloes in filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

Previous studies have shown the filamentary structures in the cosmic web influence the alignments of nearby galaxies. We study this effect in the LOWZ sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using the "Cosmic Web Reconstruction" filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jonathan Blazek , Siyu He , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peter Melchior , Sukhdeep Singh

We present a systematic observational study of the spin alignment between galaxy groups and their central galaxies using a large spectroscopic sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Unlike previous studies based on morphology or major…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Peng Wang

We investigate the redshift evolution of intrinsic alignments of the shapes of galaxies and subhalos with the large-scale structures of the universe using the cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, $\textit{Horizon Run 5}$. To this end,…

Understanding the origin of galactic angular momentum and its connection to the cosmic web remains a pivotal issue in galaxy formation. Using kinematic data from the MaNGA survey, we investigate the alignment between the spin directions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Hao-da Wang , Peng Wang , Min Bao , Yanmei Chen , Xiao-xiao Tang , Youcai Zhang , Xi Kang , Quan Guo , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu

Using a sample of spiral galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), we investigate the alignment of spin axes of spiral galaxies with their surrounding large scale structure, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , Wentao Luo , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

We examine how the mass assembly of central galaxies depends on their location in the cosmic web. The HORIZON-AGN simulation is analysed at z~2 using the DISPERSE code to extract multi-scale cosmic filaments. We find that the dependency of…

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…

By the 2040s, several all-sky surveys will have transformed our view of the large-scale structure. However, one of the major outstanding questions in astrophysics will remain: understanding how galaxies acquire and evolve their angular…

Large scale tidal field estimated directly from the distribution of dark matter halos is used to investigate how halo shapes and spin vectors are aligned with the cosmic web. The major, intermediate and minor axes of halos are aligned with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Sijie Chen , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Jingjing Shi

We report results for the alignments of galaxies in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations as a function of galaxy separation and halo mass. The combination of these hydro-cosmological simulations enables us to span four orders of magnitude…

In this paper, we study the filamentary structures and the galaxy alignment along filaments at redshift $z=0.06$ in the MassiveBlack-II simulation, a state-of-the-art, high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation which includes…

We investigate the 3D spin alignment of galaxies with respect to the large-scale filaments using the MaNGA survey. The cosmic web is reconstructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using Disperse and the 3D spins of MaNGA galaxies are…

We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bernard J. T. Jones , Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

We investigate how galaxy pairs are oriented in three dimensions within cosmic filaments using data from the EAGLE simulation. We identify filament spines using DisPerSE and isolate galaxies residing in filamentary environments. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey

Galaxy properties are known to correlate with their location within the cosmic web. However, the role of filaments remains poorly understood, particularly for low-mass galaxies, which are expected to be more sensitive to environmental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Daria Zakharova , Gabriella De Lucia , Benedetta Vulcani , Lizhi Xie , Stefania Barsanti , Sean McGee

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

Elliptical galaxies today appear aligned with the large-scale structure of the Universe, but it is still an open question when they acquire this alignment. Observational data is currently insufficient to provide constraints on the time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 James Bate , Nora Elisa Chisari , Sandrine Codis , Garreth Martin , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Christophe Pichon , Adrianne Slyz

The MMF technique is used to segment the cosmic web as seen in a cosmological N-body simulation into wall-like and filament-like structures. We find that the spins and shapes of dark matter haloes are significantly correlated with each…

The connections among galaxies, the dark matter halos where they form and the properties of the large-scale Cosmic Web still need to be completely disentangled. We use the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation TNG100 of the IllustrisTNG…