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We use a 64$h^{-1}$Mpc dark matter (DM) only cosmological simulation to examine the large scale orientation of haloes and substructures with respect the cosmic web. A web classification scheme based on the velocity shear tensor is used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Stefan Gottlöber , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes

The way in which the large-scale cosmic environment affects galactic properties is not yet understood. Dark matter halos, which embed galaxies, initially evolve following linear theory. Their subsequent evolution is driven by non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Anatole Storck , Corentin Cadiou , Oscar Agertz , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa

We investigate the alignment of the spin of dark matter halos relative (i) to the surrounding large-scale filamentary structure, and (ii) to the tidal tensor eigenvectors using the Horizon 4pi dark matter simulation which resolves over 43…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Thierry Sousbie

We have explored the dynamical and mass evolution of halos driven by large-scale filaments using a dark matter-only cosmological simulation with the help of a phase-space analysis. Since a non-negligible number of galaxies is expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Hannah Jhee , Hyunmi Song , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin , Inkyu Park , Clotilde Laigle

Halo bias is the one of the key ingredients of the halo models. It was shown at a given redshift to be only dependent, to the first order, on the halo mass. In this study, four types of cosmic web environments: clusters, filaments, sheets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Xiaohu Yang , Youcai Zhang , Tianhuan Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Feng Shi , Dylan Tweed , Shijie Li , Wentao Luo , Yi Lu , Lei Yang

We expand our previous study on the relationship between changes in the orientation of the angular momentum vector of dark matter haloes ("spin flips") and changes in their mass (Bett & Frenk 2012), to cover the full range of halo masses in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 Philip E. Bett , Carlos S. Frenk

In this work, we aim at investigating the morphology evolution of Milky Way mass-like dark matter haloes selected from the CIELO and IllustrisTNG Projects. The connection between halo shapes and their environment has been studied in…

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

The large-scale structure of the Universe is characterised by a web-like structure made of voids, sheets, filaments, and knots. The structure of this so-called cosmic web is dictated by the local velocity shear tensor. In particular, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , N. I. Libeskind , Y. Hoffman , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm

Using a set of high-resolution simulations we study the statistical correlation of dark matter halo properties with the large-scale environment. We consider halo populations split into four Cosmic Web (CW) elements: voids, walls, filaments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard T. Jones

In this paper, we examine in detail the key structural properties of high redshift dark matter haloes as a function of their spin parameter. We perform and analyze high resolution cosmological simulations of the formation of structure in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrew J. Davis , Priyamvada Natarajan

In this paper we use high-resolution cosmological simulations to study halo intrinsic alignment and its dependence on mass, formation time and large-scale environment. In agreement with previous studies using N-body simulations, it is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Qianli Xia , Xi Kang , Peng Wang , Yu Luo , Xiaohu Yang , Yipeng Jing , Huiyuan Wang , Houjun Mo

Using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) along with haloes from the dark matter only constrained ELUCID (Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field) simulation, we examine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

Galaxies properties are known to be affected by their environment. One important question is how their angular momentum reflects the surrounding cosmic web. We use the SDSS to investigate the spin axes of spiral and elliptical galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Elmo Tempel , Noam I. Libeskind

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

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

We use a 380 h-1 pc resolution hydrodynamic AMR simulation of a cosmic filament to investigate the orientations of a sample of ~100 well-resolved galactic disks spanning two orders of magnitude in both stellar and halo mass. We find: (i) At…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-12 Oliver Hahn , Romain Teyssier , C. Marcella Carollo

Leveraging the semi-analytic method, we compute halo spins for a substantial sample of HI-bearing galaxies observed in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Alfa Survey. Our statistical analysis reveals a correlation between halo spin and environment,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-10 Zichen Hua , Yu Rong , Huijie Hu

The theory of galaxy formation posits a clear correlation between the spin of galaxies and the orientation of the elements of the large-scale structure of the Universe, particularly cosmic filaments. A substantial number of observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 A. V. Antipova , D. I. Makarov , N. Libeskind , E. Tempel

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