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Both simulations and observations have found that the spin of halo/galaxy is correlated with the large scale environment, and particularly the spin of halo flips in filament. A consistent picture of halo spin evolution in different…

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We use large N-body simulations of dissipationless gravitational clustering in cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies to study whether the properties of dark matter halos are affected by their environment. We look for correlations between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Gerard Lemson , Guinevere Kauffmann

We have explored the dynamical and mass evolution of halos driven by large-scale filaments using a dark matter-only cosmological simulation with the help of a phase-space analysis. Since a non-negligible number of galaxies is expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Hannah Jhee , Hyunmi Song , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin , Inkyu Park , Clotilde Laigle

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

Understanding the impact of environment on the formation and evolution of dark matter halos and galaxies is a crucial open problem. Studying statistical correlations in large simulated populations sheds some light on these impacts, but the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Corentin Cadiou , Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Luisa Lucie-Smith

In this paper we use high-resolution cosmological simulations to study halo intrinsic alignment and its dependence on mass, formation time and large-scale environment. In agreement with previous studies using N-body simulations, it is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Qianli Xia , Xi Kang , Peng Wang , Yu Luo , Xiaohu Yang , Yipeng Jing , Huiyuan Wang , Houjun Mo

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…

We discuss the impact of the cosmological environment on the evolution of dark matter halos using a high-resolution simulation within a spatially flat LCDM cosmology.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Gottloeber , Anatoly Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Large-scale cosmic filaments may have played an important role in shaping the properties of galaxies. Meanwhile, cosmic filaments are believed to harbor a substantial portion of the missing baryons at redshift z < 2. To inspect the role of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Weishan Zhu , Tian-Rui Wang , Fupeng Zhang , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

We use seven high-resolution $N$-body simulations to study the correlations among different halo properties (assembly time, spin, shape and substructure), and how these halo properties are correlated with the large-scale environment in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Yu Wang

Using a set of high-resolution simulations we study the statistical correlation of dark matter halo properties with the large-scale environment. We consider halo populations split into four Cosmic Web (CW) elements: voids, walls, filaments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard T. Jones

Dark matter haloes are formed through hierarchical mergers of smaller haloes in large-scale cosmic environments, and thus anisotropic subhalo accretion through cosmic filaments have some impacts on halo structures. Recent studies using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Yu Morinaga , Tomoaki Ishiyama

Both simulation and observational data have shown that the spin and shape of dark matter halos are correlated with their nearby large-scale environment. As structure formation on different scales is strongly coupled, it is trick to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Hou-Zun Chen , Xi Kang , Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Yu Luo

We use a series of N-body simulations of the LCDM cosmology to investigate the redshift evolution since z=1 of the properties and alignment with the large-scale structure of haloes in clusters, filaments, sheets and voids. We find that: (i)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Hahn , C. Marcella Carollo , Cristiano Porciani , Avishai Dekel

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

Using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) along with haloes from the dark matter only constrained ELUCID (Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field) simulation, we examine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

If long-range attractive forces exist and are stronger than gravity then cosmic halo formation can begin in the radiation-dominated era. We study a simple realization of this effect in a system where dark matter fermions have Yukawa…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Guillem Domènech , Derek Inman , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is far less well established than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Andreas Faltenbacher , Volker Springel , Weipeng Lin , Huiyuan Wang

We explore a possible origin for the puzzling anti-correlation between the formation epoch of galactic dark-matter haloes and their environment density. This correlation has been revealed from cosmological N-body simulations and is in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Oliver Hahn , Cristiano Porciani , Avishai Dekel , C. Marcella Carollo

The abundance of dark matter haloes is one of the key probes of the growth of structure and expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical predictions for this quantity usually assume that, when expressed in a certain form, it depends only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò
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