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Using the high-resolution $N$-body cosmological simulation COLOR, we explore the cosmic web (CW) environmental effects on subhalo populations and their internal properties. We use CaCTus, which incorporates an implementation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Feven Markos Hunde , Oliver Newton , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki , Krishna Naidoo

The matter distribution in the Universe exhibits a rich variety of structures forming the cosmic web. These structures arise from the anisotropic gravitational collapse of primordial density fluctuations and define the pathways along which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 J. A. L. Aguerri , S. Zarattini

Gravity drives the collapse of molecular clouds through which stars form, yet the exact role of gravity in cloud collapse remains a complex issue. Studies point to a picture where star formation occurs in clusters. In a typical, pc-sized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-07 Guang-Xing Li

This work investigates the connection between the cosmic web and the halo distribution through the gravitational potential at the field level. We combine three fields of research, cosmic web classification, perturbation theory expansions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez , Francesco Sinigaglia , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

The nature versus nurture scenario in galaxy and group evolution is a long-standing problem not yet fully understood on cosmological scales. We study the properties of groups and their central galaxies in different large-scale environments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Anup Poudel , Pekka Heinämäki , Elmo Tempel , Maret Einasto , Heidi Lietzen , Pasi Nurmi

An approach to cosmological modelling is presented that incorporates the inhomogeneous structure of the Cosmic Web, specifically focusing on the interplay between cosmic voids and density walls. We extend the standard homogeneous and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 John Moffat

Galaxy cluster outskirts are described by complex velocity fields induced by diffuse material collapsing towards filaments, gas and galaxies falling into clusters, and gas shock processes triggered by substructures. A simple scenario that…

The influence of the Cosmic Web on galaxy formation and evolution is of great observational and theoretical interest. We investigate whether the Cosmic Web leaves an imprint in the spatial clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Aseem Paranjape , Oliver Hahn , Ravi K. Sheth

The cosmic web consists of a nested hierarchy of structures: voids, walls, filaments, and clusters. These structures interconnect and can encompass one another, collectively shaping an intricate network. Here we introduce the Hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 M. A. Aragon-Calvo

The large-scale structure of the Universe is characterised by a web-like structure made of voids, sheets, filaments, and knots. The structure of this so-called cosmic web is dictated by the local velocity shear tensor. In particular, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Tempel , N. I. Libeskind , Y. Hoffman , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm

We review the analysis of the Cosmic Web by means of an extensive toolset based on the use of Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations. The Cosmic Web is the salient and pervasive foamlike pattern in which matter has organized itself on scales of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Bernard J. T. Jones , Erwin Platen

Cosmic voids are a promising environment to characterize neutrino-induced effects on the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe. We perform a comprehensive numerical study of the statistical properties of voids, identified both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Elena Massara , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , P. M. Sutter

Galaxy properties are known to correlate with their location within the cosmic web. However, the role of filaments remains poorly understood, particularly for low-mass galaxies, which are expected to be more sensitive to environmental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Daria Zakharova , Gabriella De Lucia , Benedetta Vulcani , Lizhi Xie , Stefania Barsanti , Sean McGee

A new approach for the classification of the cosmic web is presented. In extension of the previous work of Hahn et al. (2007) and Forero-Romero et al. (2009) the new algorithm is based on the analysis of the velocity shear tensor rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 Yehuda Hoffman , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Noam I. Libeskind , Alexander Knebe

We study the effects of the local environmental density and the cosmic web environment (filaments, walls, and voids) on key properties of dark matter halos using the Bolshoi-Planck LCDM cosmological simulation. The z = 0 simulation is…

Cosmic filaments, the most prominent features of the cosmic web, possibly hold untapped potential for cosmological inference. While it is natural to expect the structure of filaments to show universality similar to that seen in dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Saee Dhawalikar , Aseem Paranjape

We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla

The role of tidal shear in the formation of structure in the Universe is explored. To illustrate the possible and sometimes dramatic impact of tidal fields we focus on the evolution of voids. We firstly analyze the role of tidal fields both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of cosmic morphologies of the large-scale structure by examining the Lagrangian dynamics of various tensors of a cosmic fluid element, including the velocity gradient tensor, the Hessian matrix of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay