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Despite containing about a half of the total matter in the Universe, at most wavelengths the filamentary structure of the cosmic web is difficult to observe. In this work, we use large unigrid cosmological simulations to investigate how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Mehmet Alpaslan , Benne Willem Holwerda , Andrew Hopkins , Jochen Liske

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

Both simulations and observations have found that the spin of halo/galaxy is correlated with the large scale environment, and particularly the spin of halo flips in filament. A consistent picture of halo spin evolution in different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Peng Wang , Xi Kang

Spiral galaxies host dynamically important magnetic fields which can affect gas flows in the disks and halos. Total magnetic fields in spiral galaxies are strongest (up to 30 \muG) in the spiral arms where they are mostly turbulent or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rainer Beck

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

The continuous flow of gas and dark matter across scales in the cosmic web can generate correlated dynamical properties of haloes and filaments (and the magnetic fields they contain). With this work, we study the halo spin properties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Serena Banfi , Franco Vazza , Claudio Gheller

We investigate the alignment of haloes with the filaments of the cosmic web using an unprecedently large sample of dark matter haloes taken from the P-Millennium $\Lambda$CDM cosmological N-body simulation. We use the state-of-the-art NEXUS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Bernard J. T. Jones , Steven Rieder , Carlos S. Frenk

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

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 MMF technique is used to segment the cosmic web as seen in a cosmological N-body simulation into wall-like and filament-like structures. We find that the spins and shapes of dark matter haloes are significantly correlated with each…

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

For decades, the boundary of cosmic filaments have been a subject of debate. In this work, we determine the physically-motivated radii of filaments by constructing stacked galaxy number density profiles around the filament spines. We find…

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

The effect of the global rotation of the universe on the formation of galaxies is investigated. It is found that the global rotation provides a natural origin for the rotation of galaxies, and the morphology of the objects formed from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Li-Xin Li

Most of the visible matter in the Universe is ionized, so that cosmic magnetic fields are quite easy to generate and due to the lack of magnetic monopoles hard to destroy. Magnetic fields have been measured in or around practically all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-06 Rainer Beck , Richard Wielebinski

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

Spirals in galaxies have long been thought to be caused by gravitational instability in the stellar component of the disk, but discerning the precise mechanism had proved elusive. Tidal interactions, and perhaps bars, may provoke some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 J. A. Sellwood , Karen L. Masters

Clusters of galaxies, filled with hot magnetized plasma, are the largest bound objects in existence and an important touchstone in understanding the formation of structures in our Universe. In such clusters, thermal conduction follows field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Christoph Pfrommer , L. Jonathan Dursi

In the linear theory, the galaxy angular momentum vectors which originate from the initial tidal interactions with surrounding matter distribution intrinsically develop perpendicular alignments with the directions of maximum matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon

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