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The geometry of the cosmic web drives in part the spin acquisition of galaxies. This can be explained in a Lagrangian framework, by identifying the specific long-wavelength correlations within the primordial Gaussian random field which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-13 Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Dmitry Pogosyan

Galaxies, as well as their satellites, are known to form within the cosmic web: the large, multi-scale distribution of matter in the universe. It is known that the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) can impact and influence the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-17 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

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 close relationship between mergers and the reorientation of the spin for galaxies and their host dark haloes is investigated using a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation (Horizon-AGN). Through a statistical analysis of merger trees,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Charlotte Welker , Julien Devriendt , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Sébastien Peirani

Cosmic connectivity and multiplicity, i.e. the number of filaments globally or locally connected to a given cluster is a natural probe of the growth of structure and in particular of the nature of dark energy. It is also a critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Sandrine Codis , Dmitri Pogosyan , Christophe Pichon

We analyze the structure and connectivity of the distinct morphologies that define the Cosmic Web. With the help of our Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF), we dissect the matter distribution of a cosmological $\Lambda$CDM N-body computer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

Ordinary baryonic particles (such as protons and neutrons) account for only one-sixth of the total matter in the Universe. The remainder is a mysterious "dark matter" component, which does not interact via electromagnetism and thus neither…

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…

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

We investigate the spin evolution of dark matter haloes and their dependence on the number of connected filaments from the cosmic web at high redshift (spin-filament relation hereafter). To this purpose, we have simulated $5000$ haloes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Joaquin Prieto , Nelson Padilla , Raul Jimenez

The kinematic analysis of dark matter and hydrodynamical simulations suggests that the vorticity in large-scale structure is mostly confined to, and predominantly aligned with their filaments, with an excess of probability of 20 per cent to…

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

Matter on large scales in the Universe is distributed in form of sheets, filaments and spherical halos. Most of the known matter in the Universe is in a diffuse plasma state - in halos around galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-30 Prateek Sharma

We study the spin alignment of galaxies and halos with respect to filaments and walls of the cosmic web, identified with DisPerSE, using the SIMBA simulation from z=0-2. Massive halos' spins are oriented perpendicularly to their closest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Katarina Kraljic , Romeel Dave , Christophe Pichon

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

We investigate the evolution of dark matter halo spin alignments with respect to cosmic filaments, exploring how halo mass, proximity to filaments, and major mergers influence their orientation over time. We perform a suite of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 David Tobar , Rory Smith , Antonio Montero-Dorta , Katarina Kraljic , Pablo López

Using the Horizon-AGN simulation we find a mass dependent spin orientation trend for galaxies: the spin of low-mass, rotation-dominated, blue, star-forming galaxies are preferentially aligned with their closest filament, whereas high-mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 charlotte Welker , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Christophe Pichon , Sebastien Peirani

We explore the evolution of halo spins in the cosmic web using a very large sample of dark matter haloes in the $\Lambda$CDM Planck-Millennium N-body simulation. We use the NEXUS+ multiscale formalism to identify the hierarchy of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Carlos S. Frenk

Filamentary structure is important for the ISM and star formation. Galactic distribution of filaments may regulate the star formation rate in the Milky Way. However, interstellar filaments are intrinsically complex, making it difficult to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Ke Wang , Yifei Ge , Tapas Baug

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