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We explore how the galaxy stellar spins acquire a peculiar tendency of being aligned with the major principal axes of the local tidal fields, in contrast to their DM counterparts which tend to be perpendicular to them, regardless of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon , Suk-Jin Yoon

In the paper we discussed the observational aspects of rotation in the Universe on different scales. We show dependence between the angular momentum of the structures and their size. The presented observational situation is that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wlodzimierz Godlowski

We investigate the alignment between the angular momenta of galaxy groups and the spines of their associated cosmic filaments. Our results demonstrate a significant tendency for these two orientations to be perpendicular, indicating that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Yu Rong , Peng Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

A numerical detection of the mass-dependent spin transition of the galaxies is presented. Analyzing a sample of the galaxies with stellar masses in the range of $10^{9}< (M_{\star}/M_{\odot})\le 10^{11}$ from the IllustrisTNG300-1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon , Suho Ryu , Suk-Jin Yoon

The angular momentum of galaxies controls the kinematics of their stars, which in turn drives observable quantities such as the apparent radius, the bulge fraction, and the alignment with other nearby structures. To show how angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Corentin Cadiou , Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris

We present the first detection of mass dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with over 2 sigma confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is reconstructed on Mpc scales across GAMA fields…

The investigation of the orientation of galaxies is a standard test concerning to scenarios of galaxy formation, because different theories of galaxy formation make various predictions regarding to the angular momentum of galaxies. The new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-02 Elena Panko , Paulina Piwowarska , Jolanta Godlowska , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Piotr Flin

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

Cosmological theories suggest that the angular momentum of galaxies should be closely linked to the structure of the cosmic web. The Local Supercluster is the closest and most studied structure where the orientation of galaxy spins can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 P. Dolgosheeva , D. Makarov , N. Libeskind

The angular momentum of galaxies is routinely ascribed to a process of tidal torques acting during the early stages of gravitational collapse, and is predicted from the initial mass distribution using second-order perturbation theory and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ben Sugerman , F. J. Summers , Marc Kamionkowski

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

The correlation between the spins of dark matter halos and the large-scale structure (LSS) has been studied in great detail over a large redshift range, while investigations of galaxies are still incomplete. Motivated by this point, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Xi Kang , Noam I. Libeskind

We study the evolution of angular momenta of ($M_*=10^{10}-10^{12}\msun$) galaxies utilizing large-scale ultra-high resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and find that spin of the stellar component changes direction frequently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Renyue Cen

We use numerical simulations to investigate the orientation of the angular momentum axis of disk galaxies relative to their surrounding large scale structure. We find that this is closely related to the spatial configuration at turnaround…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Matthias Steinmetz

Galaxy imaging surveys provide us with information on both the galaxy distribution and their shapes. In this paper, we systematically investigate the sensitivity of galaxy shapes to new physics in the initial conditions. For this purpose,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Kazuhiro Kogai , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Fabian Schmidt , Yuko Urakawa

The spin of galaxy clusters encodes key information about their formation, dynamics, and the influence of large-scale structure. However, whether clusters possess statistically significant spin and how to measure it observationally remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Weiguang cui , Min Bao

The angular momentum of dark matter haloes controls their spin magnitude and orientation, which in turn influences the galaxies therein. However, the process by which dark matter haloes acquire angular momentum is not fully understood; in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Corentin Cadiou , Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris

Galaxy formation in the current cosmological paradigm is a very complex process in which inflows, outflows, interactions and mergers are common events. These processes can redistribute the angular momentum content of baryons. Recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-31 Susana Pedrosa , Patricia Tissera

A numerical detection of the $\tau$-driven transition of galaxy spins is presented, where $\tau$ is the degree of misalignment between the initial tidal field and protogalaxy inertia tensors. Analyzing the data from the IllustrisTNG 300-1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jun-Sung Moon , Jounghun Lee

The orientation of galaxy spin vectors within the large scale structure has been considered an important test of our understanding of structure formation. We investigate the angular changes of galaxy spin vectors in clusters - denser…