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Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is far less well established than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Andreas Faltenbacher , Volker Springel , Weipeng Lin , Huiyuan Wang

A numerical detection of the radius-dependent spin transition of dark matter halos is reported. Analyzing the data from the IllustrisTNG simulations, we measure the halo spin vectors at several inner radii within the virial boundaries and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-09 Jun-Sung Moon , Jounghun Lee

We provide an explanation for the reduced dynamical friction on galactic bars in spinning dark matter halos. Earlier work based on linear theory predicted an increase in dynamical friction when dark halos have a net forward rotation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-31 Rimpei Chiba , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

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

We employ a semi-analytical methodology to estimate the dark matter halo spin of HI-rich galaxies in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Alfa Survey and investigate the relationship between halo spin and the proximity of galaxies to cosmic filaments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Shihong Liu , Yu Rong

Flat rotation curves follow from elongated Dark Matter distributions, as shown by our earlier competitive fits to the SPARC database. Intending to probe that distortion of the DM halo one needs observables not contained by the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-17 Adriana Bariego-Quintana

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…

The non-linear cosmic web environment of dark matter haloes plays a major role in shaping their growth and evolution, and potentially also affects the galaxies that reside in them. We develop an analytical (halo model) formalism to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Aseem Paranjape

We investigate statistically the dynamical consequences of cosmological fluxes of matter and related moments on progenitors of today's dark matter haloes. Their dynamics is described via canonical perturbation theory which accounts for two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christophe Pichon , Dominique Aubert

Tidal disruption of dark matter halos around proto-globular clusters in a halo of a small galaxy is studied in the context of the hierarchical clustering scenario by using semi-cosmological N-body/SPH simulations assuming the standard cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Jin Koda , Takashi Okamoto , Keiichi Wada , Asao Habe

Subhalo spin is essential for modeling galaxy formation and controlling systematic uncertainties in intrinsic alignment (IA) studies. However, the physical mechanisms governing subhalo spin acquisition within the tidal environments of host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Daiki Osafune , Keiichi Wada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Takashi Okamoto

Galaxy angular momenta (spins) contain valuable cosmological information, complementing their positions and velocities. The baryonic spin direction of galaxies has been probed as a reliable tracer of their host halos and the primordial spin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Ming-Jie Sheng , Lin Zhu , Hao-Ran Yu , Hongchuan Ma , Haikun Li , Peng Wang , Xi Kang

We present an extensive parameter survey to study the influence of halo mass profiles on the development of tidal tails in interacting disk galaxies. We model the galaxies using a fixed exponential disk with a central bulge and vary the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Dubinski , J. Christopher Mihos , Lars Hernquist

Galaxy angular momentum directions (spins) are observable, well described by the Lagrangian tidal torque theory, and proposed to probe the primordial universe. They trace the spins of dark matter halos, and are indicators of protohalos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Qiaoya Wu , Hao-Ran Yu , Shihong Liao , Min Du

During the growth of a cold dark matter halo, the direction of its spin can undergo rapid changes. These could disrupt or even destroy a stellar disc forming in the halo, possibly resulting in the generation of a bulge or spheroid. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-07 Philip E. Bett , Carlos S. Frenk

Spin$-$orbit alignment (SOA; i.e., the vector alignment between the halo spin and the orbital angular momentum of neighboring halos) provides an important clue to how galactic angular momenta develop. For this study, we extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Sung-Ho An , Juhan Kim , Jun-Sung Moon , Suk-Jin Yoon

We use seven high-resolution $N$-body simulations to study the correlations among different halo properties (assembly time, spin, shape and substructure), and how these halo properties are correlated with the large-scale environment in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Yu Wang

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

We investigate the alignment of galaxy and halo orientations using the TNG300-1 hydrodynamical simulation. Our analysis reveals that the distribution of the 2D misalignment angle $\theta_{\rm{2D}}$ can be well described by a truncated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-07 Kun Xu , Y. P. Jing , Donghai Zhao

We discuss an idealized model of halo formation, in which a collapsing halo node is tetrahedral, with a filament extruding from each of its four faces, and with a wall connecting each pair of filaments. In the model, filaments generally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Mark C. Neyrinck