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We present measurements of the triaxial dark matter halo shapes and alignment correlation functions in the Millennium and Millennium-2 dark matter N-body simulations. These two simulations allow us to measure the distributions of halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Michael D. Schneider , Carlos S. Frenk , Shaun Cole

Interactions such as mergers and flybys play a fundamental role in shaping galaxy morphology. Using the Horizon Run 4 cosmological N-body simulation, we studied the frequency and type of halo interactions, and their redshift evolution as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Benjamin L'Huillier , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim

Galaxies are not distributed randomly in the cosmic web but are instead arranged in filaments and sheets surrounding cosmic voids. Observationally there is still no convincing evidence of a link between the properties of galaxies and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , E. Saar

Stellar bars are the most common non-axisymmetric structures in galaxies and their impact on the evolution of disc galaxies at all cosmological times can be significant. Classical theory predicts that stellar discs are stabilized against…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kanak Saha , Thorsten Naab

Large-scale cosmic filaments may have played an important role in shaping the properties of galaxies. Meanwhile, cosmic filaments are believed to harbor a substantial portion of the missing baryons at redshift z < 2. To inspect the role of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Weishan Zhu , Tian-Rui Wang , Fupeng Zhang , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

Recent JWST observations revealed the surprising presence of a giant and massive disc galaxy in a Cosmic Web node at z$\sim3$. This galaxy, named the Big Wheel, has a size almost three times larger than expected for typical disc galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 G. Quadri , S. Cantalupo , C. Bacchini , A. Pensabene , A. Lupi , G. Pezzulli , W. Wang , M. Galbiati , T. Lazeyras , N. Ledos , H. Mao , A. Travascio

We use a very large simulation of the concordance LCDM cosmogony to study the clustering of dark matter haloes. For haloes less massive than about 1e13Msun/h, the amplitude of the two-point correlation function on large scales depends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Liang Gao , Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White

In the standard disk galaxy formation model, the sizes of galactic disks are tightly related to the spin parameters $\lambda$ of their dark matter haloes. The model has been wildly adopted by various semi-analytic galaxy formation models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-13 Hang Yang , Liang Gao , Carlos S. Frenk , Robert J. J. Grand , Qi Guo , Shihong Liao , Shi Shao

The shape of dark matter haloes plays a critical role in constraining cosmology with upcoming large-scale structure surveys. In this paper, we study the correlations between the triaxial shapes and formation histories in dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Erwin T. Lau , Andrew P. Hearin , Daisuke Nagai , Nico Cappelluti

Cosmic filaments are the largest collapsing structure in the Universe. Recently both observations and simulations inferred that cosmic filaments have coherent angular momenta (spins). Here we use filament finders to identify the filamentary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-04 Ming-Jie Sheng , Sijia Li , Hao-Ran Yu , Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Xi Kang

We study the alignments of galaxy spin axes with respect to cosmic web filaments as a function of various properties of the galaxies and their constituent bulges and discs. We exploit the SAMI Galaxy Survey to identify 3D spin axes from…

We quantify the evolution of matter and galaxy clustering in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations via correlation and bias functions of matter and galaxies. We use simulations TNG100 and TNG300 with epochs from $z=5$ to $z=0$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jaan Einasto , Gert Hütsi , Lauri-Juhan Liivamägi , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Istval Szapudi , Maret Einasto

We measure the signal of secondary halo bias as a function of a variety of intrinsic and environmental halo properties, and characterize its statistical significance as a function of cosmological redshift. Using fixed and paired $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Ginevra Favole

In the regime of cosmology and large-scale structure formation, filaments are vital components of the cosmic web. This study employs statistical methods to examine the formation, evolution, and cosmological constraints of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Ziyong Wu , Yu Luo , Wei Wang , Xi Kang , Renyue Cen

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

The universe's large-scale structure forms a vast, interconnected network of filaments, sheets, and voids known as the cosmic web. For decades, astronomers have observed that the orientations of neighboring galaxy clusters within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Michael J. West , Roberto De Propris , Maret Einasto , Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are ideal laboratories where the evolution of the cosmic web can be studied. This allows for easier insight into the nature of the filaments. We investigate how the intrinsic properties of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Samo Ilc , Dunja Fabjan , Elena Rasia , Stefano Borgani , Klaus Dolag

We investigate the alignment between the spin vectors of galaxy groups and the axes of their nearest cosmic filaments using the TNG300-1 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. By systematically analyzing a large sample of groups, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Hao-da Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

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