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As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

Accurate modeling of galaxy distributions is paramount for cosmological analysis using galaxy redshift surveys. However, this endeavor is often hindered by the computational complexity of resolving the dark matter halos that host these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 J. M. Coloma-Nadal , F. -S. Kitaura , J. E. García-Farieta , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole , D. Forero Sánchez

Cosmic filaments, the most prominent features of the cosmic web, possibly hold untapped potential for cosmological inference. While it is natural to expect the structure of filaments to show universality similar to that seen in dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Saee Dhawalikar , Aseem Paranjape

Large-scale gaseous filaments with length up to the order of 100 pc are on the upper end of the filamentary hierarchy of the Galactic interstellar medium. Their association with respect to the Galactic structure and their role in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Andreas Burkert , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

Although coherent large-scale structures such as filaments and walls are apparent to the eye in galaxy redshift surveys, they have so far proven difficult to characterize with computer algorithms. This paper presents a procedure that uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicholas Bond , Michael Strauss , Renyue Cen

We have carried out a search for filamentary structures in the Taurus molecular cloud using $\rm^{13}CO$ line emission data from the FCRAO survey of $\rm \sim100 \, deg^2$. We have used the topological analysis tool, DisPerSe, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , P. F. Goldsmith , M. H. Heyer

Numerical simulations and observations show that galaxies are not uniformly distributed in the universe but, rather, they are spread across a filamentary structure. In this large-scale pattern, highly dense regions are linked together by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 T. Bonnaire , N. Aghanim , A. Decelle , M. Douspis

A substantial fraction of the cosmic baryons is expected to hide in the form of diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), the majority of which resides in the filaments of the Cosmic Web and has proven very difficult to detect due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 I. Vurm , J. Nevalainen , S. E. Hong , Y. M. Bahé , C. Dalla Vecchia , P. Heinämäki

Cosmic connectivity and multiplicity, i.e. the number of filaments globally or locally connected to a given cluster is a natural probe of the growth of structure and in particular of the nature of dark energy. It is also a critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Sandrine Codis , Dmitri Pogosyan , Christophe Pichon

We report on two quantitative, morphological estimators of the filamentary structure of the Cosmic Web, the so-called global and local skeletons. The first, based on a global study of the matter density gradient flow, allows us to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Christophe Pichon , Christophe Gay , Dmitry Pogosyan , Simon Prunet , Thierry Sousbie , Stephane Colombi , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt

We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla

In the cosmic web, filaments play a crucial role in connecting walls to clusters and also act as an important stage for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent observational studies claim that filaments have spin. In this study, we examined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Xiao-Xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Wei Wang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

A new numerical technique to identify the cosmic web is proposed. It is based on locating multi-stream flows, i.e. the places where the velocity field is multi-valued. The method is local in Eulerian space, simple and computaionally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergei F. Shandarin

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall…

Filaments are crucial components of the cosmic web, representing the extensive and aligned distributions of galaxies and gas. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we report the detection of a filament in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jin-Long Xu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang , Nai-Ping Yu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Xiao-Lan Liu , Mei Ai , Yin-Jie Jing , Jie Wang

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 study of large-scale structure can benefit from accurate and robust identification of the cosmic web. Having such classification can facilitate a more complete extraction of cosmological information encoded therein. Classification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Edward Olex , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Alexander Knebe

This work investigates the alignment of galactic spins with the cosmic web across cosmic time using the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. The cosmic web structure is extracted via the persistent skeleton as implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Codis , A. Jindal , N. E. Chisari , D. Vibert , Y. Dubois , C. Pichon , J. Devriendt

One of the important unknowns of current cosmology concerns the effects of the large scale distribution of matter on the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes and galaxies. One main difficulty in answering this question lies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk , Wojcieh A. Hellwing

We investigate the characteristics and the time evolution of the cosmic web from redshift, z=2, to present time, within the framework of the NEXUS+ algorithm. This necessitates the introduction of new analysis tools optimally suited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk