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Subhalo spin is essential for modeling galaxy formation and controlling systematic uncertainties in intrinsic alignment (IA) studies. However, the physical mechanisms governing subhalo spin acquisition within the tidal environments of host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Daiki Osafune , Keiichi Wada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Takashi Okamoto

We investigate the redshift evolution of intrinsic alignments of the shapes of galaxies and subhalos with the large-scale structures of the universe using the cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, $\textit{Horizon Run 5}$. To this end,…

Investigating the spin parameter distribution of subhaloes in two high resolution isolated halo simulations, re- cent work by Onions et al. suggested that typical subhalo spins are consistently lower than the spin distribution found for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-12 Yang Wang , Weipeng Lin , Frazer R. Pearce , Hanni Lux , Stuart I. Muldrew , Julian Onions

We investigate the alignment of the spin of dark matter halos relative (i) to the surrounding large-scale filamentary structure, and (ii) to the tidal tensor eigenvectors using the Horizon 4pi dark matter simulation which resolves over 43…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Thierry Sousbie

The correlation between the spins of dark matter halos and the large-scale structure (LSS) has been studied in great detail over a large redshift range, while investigations of galaxies are still incomplete. Motivated by this point, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Xi Kang , Noam I. Libeskind

We present a numerical evidence supporting the claim that the mass-dependent transitions of the halo spin orientations from the intermediate to the minor principal directions of the local tidal fields can in principle be a useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Jounghun Lee , Noam I Libeskind

We report a direct observational evidence for the existence of the galaxy spin alignments with the real space tidal field. We calculate the real space tidal field from the real space density field reconstructed recently from the Two Mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jounghun Lee , Pirin Erdogdu

We explore the evolution of halo spins in the cosmic web using a very large sample of dark matter haloes in the $\Lambda$CDM Planck-Millennium N-body simulation. We use the NEXUS+ multiscale formalism to identify the hierarchy of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Carlos S. Frenk

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

Accurately predicting the abundance and structural evolution of dark matter subhaloes is crucial for understanding galaxy formation, modeling galaxy clustering, and constraining the nature of dark matter. Due to the nonlinear nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-22 Sheridan B. Green , Frank C. van den Bosch

In this work, we explore how the size and surrounding tidal fields of dark matter protohalos at high redshift influence their angular momentum (AM) evolution. While tidal torque theory (TTT) states that AM arises from the misalignment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Pablo López , Rien van de Weygaert , Manuel Merchán

A numerical detection of the radius-dependent spin transition of dark matter halos is reported. Analyzing the data from the IllustrisTNG simulations, we measure the halo spin vectors at several inner radii within the virial boundaries and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-09 Jun-Sung Moon , Jounghun Lee

Many studies assert that dark matter (DM) subhaloes without a baryonic counterpart and with an inner cusp always survive no matter the strength of the tidal force they undergo. In this work, we perform a suite of numerical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Go Ogiya

The non-Gaussian contribution to the intrinsic halo spin alignments is analytically modeled and numerically detected. Assuming that the growth of non-Gaussianity in the density fluctuations caused the tidal field to have nonlinear-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jounghun Lee , Ue-Li Pen

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

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

The initial orbits of infalling subhalos largely determine the subsequent evolution of the subhalos and satellite galaxies therein and shed light on the assembly of their hosts. Using a large set of cosmological simulations of various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhao-Zhou Li , Dong-Hai Zhao , Y. P. Jing , Jiaxin Han , Fu-Yu Dong

Using an analytical model, we study the evolution of subhalo, including its mass, angular momentum and merging time-scale. This model considers the dominant processes governing subhalo evolution, such as dynamical friction, tidal stripping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 JianLing Gan , Xi Kang , Frank C. van den Bosch , JinLiang Hou

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matter power spectrum. However, the density profiles of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu , Andrew Benson , Charles Gannon

We investigate the spin evolution of dark matter haloes and their dependence on the number of connected filaments from the cosmic web at high redshift (spin-filament relation hereafter). To this purpose, we have simulated $5000$ haloes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Joaquin Prieto , Nelson Padilla , Raul Jimenez
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