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We present DisPerSE, a novel approach to the coherent multi-scale identification of all types of astrophysical structures, and in particular the filaments, in the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe. This method and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie

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

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is an attractive dark matter candidate motivated by small scale problems in astrophysics and with a rich phenomenology on those scales. We scrutinize the FDM model, more specifically the mass of the FDM particle,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Kohei Hayashi , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Hei Yin Jowett Chan

We present a study of a large filamentary structure at z~0.73 in the field of the COSMOS survey, the so-called COSMOS Wall. This structure encompasses a comprehensive range of environments from a dense cluster and a number of galaxy groups…

We use a combination of high-redshift observables to extract the strongest constraints to date on the fraction of axion fuzzy dark matter (FDM) in the mass window $10^{-26}\,\mathrm{eV}\!\lesssim\!…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Hovav Lazare , Jordan Flitter , Ely D. Kovetz

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, exhibits intricate wave phenomena on galactic scales. Compared to cold dark matter, FDM simulations are significantly more computationally demanding due to the need to resolve the de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hsi-Yu Schive

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) or wave dark matter is an alternative theory designed to solve the small-scale problems faced by the standard cold dark matter proposal for the primary material component of the universe. It is made up of ultra-light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Mihir Kulkarni , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Cold dark matter (CDM) is a well established paradigm to describe cosmological structure formation, and works extraordinarily well on large, linear, scales. Progressing further in dark matter physics requires being able to understand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-20 David J. E. Marsh

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is one of the recent models for dark matter. According to this model, dark matter is made of very light scalar particles with considerable quantum mechanical effects on the galactic scale, which solves many problems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Alireza Maleki , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

Cosmic voids are becoming key players in testing the physics of our Universe. Here we concentrate on the abundances and the dynamics of voids as these are among the best candidates to provide information on cosmological parameters. Cai,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Nelson Padilla , Dante Paz , Marcelo Lares , Laura Ceccarelli , Diego Garcia Lambas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Baojiu Li

Dark matter models involving a very light bosonic particle, generally known as Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), have been recently attracting great interest in the cosmology community, as their wave-like phenomenology would simultaneously explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Matteo Nori , Marco Baldi

The fuzzy dark matter model (FDM, also known as quantum wave dark matter model) argues that light bosons with a mass of $\sim10^{-22}{\;{\rm eV}}$ are a possible candidate for dark matter in the Universe. One of the most important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Hsi-Yu Schive

We present the first high-resolution n-body simulations of the fragmentation of dark matter filaments. Such fragmentation occurs in top-down scenarios of structure formation, when the dark matter is warm instead of cold. In a previous paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Knebe , Julien Devriendt , Brad Gibson , Joseph Silk

Voids are parts of the cosmic web least affected by non-linearities and baryonic feedback. We thus calculate the sensitivity of voids to the nature of dark matter (DM), using ultra-light axions as a concrete model and the ongoing Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alexander Spencer London , Keir K. Rogers , Alex Laguë , Renée Hložek , Zara Zaman

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

In fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies, the dark matter consists of ultralight bosons ($m\lesssim10^{-20}$ eV). The astrophysically large de Broglie wavelengths of such particles hinder the formation of low-mass dark matter halos. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz , Daniel Grin , Guochao Sun

While the $\Lambda$CDM model succeeds on large scales, its validity on smaller scales remains uncertain. Recent works suggest that non-halo dark matter structures, such as filaments and walls, could significantly influence gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Baptiste Jego , Giulia Despali , Tamara Richardson , Jens Stücker

Dark matter may be composed of light bosons, ${m_b \sim 10^{-22}\, \mathrm{eV}}$, with a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1 \,\mathrm{kpc}$ in typical galactic potentials. Such `fuzzy' dark matter (FDM) behaves like cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-28 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

We model the 21cm power spectrum across the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies. The suppression of small mass halos in FDM models leads to a delay in the onset redshift of these epochs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Dana Jones , Skyler Palatnick , Richard Chen , Angus Beane , Adam Lidz