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Observational studies have reported that cosmic filaments on the megaparsec scale exhibit rotational motion. Subsequent simulation studies have shown qualitative agreement with these findings, but quantitative discrepancies remain due to…

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We present a new catalogue of galaxy triplets derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. The identification of systems was performed considering galaxies brighter than M_r=-20.5 and imposing constraints over the projected…

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The orientations of the red galaxies in a filament are aligned with the orientation of the filament. We thus develop a location-alignment-method (LAM) of detecting filaments around clusters of galaxies, which uses both the alignments of red…

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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

We present observational evidence of the impact of triaxiality on radial profiles that extend to 40 Mpc from galaxy cluster centres in optical measurements. We perform a stacked profile analysis from a sample of thousands of nearly relaxed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Shenming Fu , Yuanyuan Zhang , Camille Avestruz , Ruben Coronel

The alignment of clusters of galaxies with their nearest neighbours and between clusters within a supercluster is investigated using simulations of 512^{3} dark matter particles for \LambdaCDM and \tauCDM cosmological models. Strongly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. I. Onuora , P. A. Thomas

We use data from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies in their Environment (EAGLE) cosmological simulation to study properties of galaxies in the cosmic web. Galaxies become more redder and form stars at a lower rate relative to their…

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It has been shown, both in simulations and observationally, that the tidal field of a large galaxy can torque its satellites such that the major axis of satellite galaxies points towards their hosts. This so-called `shape alignment' has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-22 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Chengliang Wei , Xi Kang

It is still not clear which environmental processes operate in filaments. Given the ubiquity of filaments and their importance in feeding clusters, a proper understanding of these mechanisms is crucial to a more complete picture of galaxy…

The length of the three-dimensional filaments observed in the fourth public data-release of the SDSS is measured using the {\em local skeleton} method. It consists in defining the set of points where the gradient of the smoothed density…

The interstellar medium has a highly filamentary and hierarchical structure, which may play a significant role in star formation. A systematical study on the large-scale filaments towards their physical parameters, distribution, structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-06 Yifei Ge , Ke Wang

Galaxies are not randomly distributed across the universe but showing different kinds of alignment on different scales. On small scales satellite galaxies have a tendency to distribute along the major axis of the central galaxy, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 X. Kang , W. P. Lin , Y. O. Wang , A. Dutton , A. Macciò

Halos and galaxies acquire their angular momentum during the collapse of surrounding large-scale structure. This process imprints alignments between galaxy spins and nearby filaments and sheets. Low mass halos grow by accretion onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Alex Krolewski , Shirley Ho , Yen-Chi Chen , P. F. Chan , Ananth Tenneti , Dmitry Bizyaev , Katarina Kraljic

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

We investigate the alignment of galaxies and haloes relative to cosmic web filaments using the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation. We identify filaments by applying the NEXUS+ method to the mass distribution and the Bisous formalism to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Elmo Tempel , Rien van de Weygaert , Carlos S. Frenk

We have tested for luminosity, colour and morphology dependence of the degree of filamentarity in seven nearly two dimensional strips from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Four (SDSS DR4). The analysis is carried out at various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Biswajit Pandey , Somnath Bharadwaj

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 (SDSS) and Millennium Simulation (MS) we investigate the alignment between galaxies and large-scale structure. For this purpose we develop two new statistical tools, namely the alignment correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Simon D. M. White , Y. P. Jing , Shude Mao , Jie Wang

The discovery of the large-scale structure has transformed our view of galaxy formation and evolution. Filaments of the cosmic web provide key environments that channel the growth of structures. Guided by predictions from cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 M. Mondelin , S. Codis , J-C. Cuillandre , C. Laigle , A. Boselli , K. Kraljic , C. Stone

We present the first quantitative detection of large-scale filamentary structure at $z \simeq 0.7$ in the large cosmological volume probed by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We use simulations to show the capability…

We present indications, based on a sample of 303 Abell clusters, for a relation between the dynamical state of clusters and the alignments of galaxy members with their parent cluster major axis orientation as well as with the large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Plionis , C. Benoist , S. Maurogordato , C. Ferrari , S. Basilakos