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We present the first study of the isotropy of the distribution of morphological types of galaxies in the Local Universe out to around 200 Mpc using more than 60,000 galaxies from the HyperLeda database. We divide the sky into two opposite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Behnam Javanmardi , Pavel Kroupa

Galaxies, as well as their satellites, are known to form within the cosmic web: the large, multi-scale distribution of matter in the universe. It is known that the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) can impact and influence the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-17 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

We analyse the distribution of position angles of 1 million galaxies from the Hyperleda catalogue, a sample that presents the galaxies coordinates in the celestial sphere, information that allows us to look for a possible privileged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-08 R. S. Menezes , C. Pigozzo , S. Carneiro

After extensively explored, broad agreement between observations and theories has been reached that satellites are preferentially aligned with major axes of their host centrals. There are still some issues unsolved on this topic. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Yang Wang

We investigate how well the redshift distributions of galaxies sorted into photometric redshift bins can be determined from the galaxy angular two-point correlation functions. We find that the uncertainty in the reconstructed redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Schneider , L. Knox , H. Zhan , A. Connolly

Understanding the origin of galactic angular momentum and its connection to the cosmic web remains a pivotal issue in galaxy formation. Using kinematic data from the MaNGA survey, we investigate the alignment between the spin directions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Hao-da Wang , Peng Wang , Min Bao , Yanmei Chen , Xiao-xiao Tang , Youcai Zhang , Xi Kang , Quan Guo , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu

We determine the galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for 3D spherical cells in redshift space as well as for 2D projected cells. We find that cosmic variance in the SDSS causes the counts-in-cells…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Abel Yang , William C. Saslaw

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

We use a 380 h-1 pc resolution hydrodynamic AMR simulation of a cosmic filament to investigate the orientations of a sample of ~100 well-resolved galactic disks spanning two orders of magnitude in both stellar and halo mass. We find: (i) At…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-12 Oliver Hahn , Romain Teyssier , C. Marcella Carollo

We present the results of a search for galaxy alignments in 12 galaxy clusters at z>0.5, a statistically complete subset of the very X-ray luminous clusters from the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). Using high-quality images taken with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chao-Ling Hung , Harald Ebeling

Using a sample of spiral galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), we investigate the alignment of spin axes of spiral galaxies with their surrounding large scale structure, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , Wentao Luo , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

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 have studied topology of the distribution of the high redshift galaxies identified in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) North and South. The two-dimensional genus is measured from the projected distributions of the HDF galaxies at angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Changbom Park , J. Richard Gott , Y. J. Choi

The angular momentum of galaxies (galaxy spin) contains rich information about the initial condition of the Universe, yet it is challenging to efficiently measure the spin direction for the tremendous amount of galaxies that are being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 He Jia , Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

Using the integral field unit data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we build a sample of gas-star misaligned galaxies. The large-scale environment of misaligned galaxies is dominated by filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Min Bao , Yanmei Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Huiyuan Wang , Yong Shi , Peng Wang

We present the analysis of the spin vector orientation of 5$\,$987 SDSS galaxies having negative redshift from $-$87.6 to $-$0.3 km$\,$s$^{-1}$. Two dimensional observed parameters are used to compute three dimensional galaxy rotation axes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-10 S. N. Yadav , B. Aryal , W. Saurer

As a result of our statistical study of 540 edge-on galaxies, we present here the images and preliminary statistical analysis of a sub-sample of 60 galaxies, that were selected to be S-type warped spirals. Computing the average volumic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir Reshetnikov , Francoise Combes

The wide-area imaging surveys with the {\it Herschel} Space Observatory at sub-mm wavelengths have now resulted in catalogs of order one hundred thousand dusty, star-burst galaxies. We make a statistical estimate of $N(z)$ using a…

Measurements of galaxy cluster kinematics are important in understanding the dynamical state and evolution of clusters of galaxies, as well as constraining cosmological models. While it is well established that clusters exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Andreas Skielboe , Radoslaw Wojtak , Kristian Pedersen , Eduardo Rozo , Eli S. Rykoff