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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

Angular momentum is one of the most important physical quantities that govern star formation. The initial angular momentum of a core may be responsible for its fragmentation and can have an influence on the size of the protoplanetary disk.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Cheng-Han Hsieh , Héctor G. Arce , Diego Mardones , Shuo Kong , Adele Plunkett

Galaxies represent the visible fabric of the Universe and there has been considerable progress recently in both observational and theoretical studies. The underlying goal is to understand the present-day diversity of galaxy forms, masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Ellis

We investigate the alignment of galaxies and haloes relative to cosmic web filaments using the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation. We identify filaments by applying the NEXUS+ method to the mass distribution and the Bisous formalism to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Elmo Tempel , Rien van de Weygaert , Carlos S. Frenk

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

Filaments of galaxies are the dominant feature of modern large scale redshift surveys. They can account for up to perhaps half of the baryonic mass budget of the Universe and their distribution and abundance can help constrain cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

Galaxies represent the visible fabric of the Universe and there has been considerable progress recently in both observational and theoretical studies. The underlying goal is to understand the present-day diversity of galaxy forms, masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard S Ellis

In this review, I will first introduce possible methods to probe the large-scale magnetic fields in our Galaxy and discuss their limitations. The magnetic fields in the Galactic halo, mainly revealed by the sky distribution of rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han

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…

Clusters of galaxies, the largest collapsed structures in the Universe, are located at the intersection of extended filaments of baryons and dark matter. Cosmological accretion onto clusters through large scale filaments adds material at…

The orientation of galaxy spin vectors within the large scale structure has been considered an important test of our understanding of structure formation. We investigate the angular changes of galaxy spin vectors in clusters - denser…

A galaxy's orientation is one of its most basic observable properties. Astronomers once assumed that galaxies are randomly oriented in space, however it is now clear that some have preferred orientations with respect to their surroundings.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael J. West , Roberto De Propris , Malcolm N. Bremer , Steven Phillipps

We consider the possibility that cosmic magnetic field, instead of being uniformly distributed, is strongly correlated with the large scale structure of the universe. Then, the observed rotational measure of extra-galactic radio sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Peter L. Biermann

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

The proposition that dark matter halos possess angular momentum, though widely accepted, is a theoretical prediction which has, till date, not been observationally verified. The gravi-magnetic field produced by a rotating gravitating object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Partha Nag , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sayan Kar

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

A large-scale hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, Horizon-AGN, is used to investigate the alignment between the spin of galaxies and the cosmic filaments above redshift 1.2. The analysis of more than 150 000 galaxies per time step in…

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 a population of large-scale filaments extracted from an AREPO simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, we seek to understand the extent to which observed large-scale filament properties (with lengths $\gtrsim 100$ pc) can be explained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-01 Catherine Zucker , Rowan Smith , Alyssa Goodman

It is discussed that the formation of the spiral galaxies is driven by the cosmic background rotation, not a result of an isolated evolution proposed by the density wave theory. To analyze the motions of the galaxies, a simple double…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-20 Zexin Cao , Ling Liu , Tingting Zheng