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We use data from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies in their Environment (EAGLE) cosmological simulation to study properties of galaxies in the cosmic web. Galaxies become more redder and form stars at a lower rate relative to their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Ankit Singh , Smriti Mahajan , J. S. Bagla

Several recent observations using large datasets of galaxies showed non-random distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies, even when the galaxies are too far from each other to have gravitational interaction. Here, a dataset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lior Shamir

For low-mass haloes, the physical origins of halo assembly bias have been linked to the slowdown of accretion due to tidal forces, which are expected to be more dominant in some cosmic-web environments as compared to others. In this work,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Facundo Rodriguez

Most cosmological structures in the universe spin. Although structures in the universe form on a wide variety of scales from small dwarf galaxies to large super clusters, the generation of angular momentum across these scales is poorly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

Cosmological simulations suggest that various galaxy properties depend on their location within the cosmic web. Yet direct observational evidence of the dependence of star formation activity on distance to filaments remains scarce and is…

Galaxies evolve within the intricate geometry of the cosmic web, yet the distinct roles of its primary components - nodes and filaments remain incompletely understood. Using the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, we investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Apashanka Das

In the cosmic web, filaments play a crucial role in connecting walls to clusters and also act as an important stage for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent observational studies claim that filaments have spin. In this study, we examined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Xiao-Xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Wei Wang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

The intrinsic alignment of galaxy shapes (by means of their angular momentum) and their cross-correlation with the surrounding dark matter tidal field are investigated using the 160 000, z=1.2 synthetic galaxies extracted from the…

Context. The clustering of dark-matter halos depends primarily on halo mass. However, at fixed halo mass, numerical simulations have revealed multiple secondary dependencies. This so-called secondary halo bias has important implications for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Yigon Kim , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Rory Smith , Jong-Ho Shinn

We summarize recent developments in the study of the origin of halo spin profiles and preliminary implications on disk formation. The specific angular-momentum distributions within halos in N-body simulations match a universal shape, M(<j)…

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 use a sample of ~6000 galaxies detected by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) 21cm survey, to measure the clustering properties of HI-selected galaxies. We find no convincing evidence for a dependence of clustering on the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Emmanouil Papastergis , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes , Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla , Michael G. Jones

The halo spin flip refers to the phenomenon that the spin axes of dark matter halos with masses above a certain threshold tend to be preferentially aligned perpendicular to the hosting large-scale filaments, while low-mass halos tend to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jounghun Lee , Noam I Libeskind , Suho Ryu

Recent studies have shown that the distribution of satellite galaxies is preferentially aligned with the major axis of their central galaxy. The strength of this alignment has been found to depend strongly on the colours of the satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 X. Kang , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang , Shude Mao , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Y. P. Jing

We measure how the properties of star-forming central galaxies correlate with large-scale environment, $\delta$, measured on $10$Mpc/h scales. We use group catalogs to isolate a robust sample of central galaxies with high purity and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Jeremy L. Tinker , ChangHoon Hahn , Yao-Yuan Mao , Andrew R. Wetzel

We use a combination of data from the MaNGA survey and MaNGA-like observations in IllustrisTNG100 to determine the prevalence of misalignment between the rotational axes of stars and gas. This census paper outlines the typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Christopher Duckworth , Rita Tojeiro , Katarina Kraljic

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

Galaxy environment plays an important role in driving the transformation of galaxies from blue and star-forming to red and quenched. Recent works have focused on the role of cosmic web filaments in galaxy evolution and have suggested that…