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We analyze the structure and connectivity of the distinct morphologies that define the Cosmic Web. With the help of our Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF), we dissect the matter distribution of a cosmological $\Lambda$CDM N-body computer…

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Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the universe and to measure cosmological parameters. This cosmic-shear technique is based on the measurement of the weak distortions that…

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Simple analytic arguments are used to understand the predominantly filamentary web in the large-scale distribution of galaxies. Numerical simulations of superclusters are performed to assess the feasibility of directly mapping the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Pogosyan , J. R. Bond , L. Kofman , J. Wadsley

The growing range of automated algorithms for the identification of molecular clouds and clumps in large observational datasets has prompted the need for the direct comparison of these procedures. However, these methods are complex and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Raffaele Rani , Toby J. T. Moore , David J. Eden , Andrew J. Rigby , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Yueh-Ning Lee

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- stellar cores with the filaments suggest a direct link with…

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

The recently introduced discrete persistent structure extractor (DisPerSE, Soubie 2010, paper I) is implemented on realistic 3D cosmological simulations and observed redshift catalogues (SDSS); it is found that DisPerSE traces equally well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie , Christophe Pichon , Hajime Kawahara

We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bernard J. T. Jones , Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

Cosmic strings are generically predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. We propose a new avenue for detecting cosmic strings through their effect on the filamentary structure in the cosmic web. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 M. A. Fernandez , Simeon Bird , Yanou Cui

A novel fractal analysis of the cosmic web structure is carried out, employing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, data release 7. We consider the large-scale stellar mass distribution, unlike other analyses, and determine its multifractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jose Gaite

We present a weak lensing detection of filamentary structures in the cosmic web, combining data from the Kilo-Degree Survey, the Red Cluster Sequence Lensing Survey and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey. The line connecting…

The standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) predicts the existence of the cosmic web: a distribution of matter into sheets and filaments connecting massive halos. However, observational evidence has been elusive due to the low surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Lydia M. Elias , Shy Genel , Amiel Sternberg , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Eli Visbal , Nicolas Bouché

We use the Millennium simulation to show that halo clustering varies significantly with cosmic web type. Halos are classified as node, filament, sheet and void halos based on the eigenvalue decomposition of the velocity shear tensor. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher

The cosmic web plays a major role in the formation and evolution of galaxies and defines, to a large extent, their properties. However, the relation between galaxies and environment is still not well understood. Here we present a machine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Jianan Hui , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Xinping Cui , James M. Flegal

The "cosmic web", the filamentary large-scale structure in a cold dark matter Universe, is readily apparent via galaxy tracers in spectroscopic surveys. However, the underlying dark matter structure is as of yet unobservable and mapping the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Matthew C. Wilde , Oskar Elek , Joseph N. Burchett , Daisuke Nagai , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jessica Werk , Sarah Tuttle , Angus G. Forbes

The 80% of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter that comprises the skeleton of the large-scale structure called the Cosmic Web. As the Cosmic Web dictates the motion of all matter in galaxies and inter-galactic media…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sungwook E. Hong , Donghui Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim

The cosmic web is one of the most complex systems in nature, consisting of galaxies and clusters of galaxies joined by filaments and walls, leaving large empty regions called cosmic voids. The most common method of describing the web is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jaan Einasto

The large scale structure of the universe is a complex web of clusters, filaments, and voids. Its properties are informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar velocities. Wiener Filter reconstructions recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helene M. Courtois , Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Yehuda Hoffman , Denis Courtois

Understanding the cold atomic hydrogen gas (HI) within cosmic filaments has the potential to pin down the relationship between the low density gas in the cosmic web and how the galaxies that lie within it grow using this material. We report…