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The joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-shear cross-correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing) in imaging surveys constitutes one of the main avenues to obtain cosmological information. Analyses from Stage III surveys have assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shivam Pandey , Carles Sánchez , Bhuvnesh Jain , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Context: In the last years, there have been many studies on the omnipresence and structures of filaments in star-forming regions, as well as their role in the process of star formation. Those filaments are normally identified as elongated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-10 R. -A. Chira , R. Siebenmorgen , Th. Henning , J. Kainulainen

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

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

Filaments play a crucial role in providing the necessary environmental conditions for star formation, actively participating in the process. To facilitate the identification and analysis of filaments, we introduce DPConCFil (Directional and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Yu Jiang

We investigate the role of the delineated cosmic web/filaments on the star formation activity by exploring a sample of 425 narrow-band selected H{\alpha} emitters, as well as 2846 color-color selected underlying star-forming galaxies for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Behnam Darvish , David Sobral , Bahram Mobasher , Nicholas Scoville , Philip Best , Laura Sales , Ian Smail

Leveraging the datasets of galaxy triplets and large-scale filaments obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we scrutinize the alignment of the three sides of the triangles formed by galaxy triplets and the normal vectors of the triplet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-21 Yu Rong , Jinzhi Shen , Zichen Hua

A new class of geometric statistics for analyzing galaxy catalogs is presented. {\it Filament statistics} quantify filamentarity and planarity in large scale structure in a manner consistent with catalog visualizations. These statistics are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romeel Davé , Doug Hellinger , Richard Nolthenius , Joel Primack , Anatoly Klypin

We investigate the alignment between the angular momenta of galaxy groups and the spines of their associated cosmic filaments. Our results demonstrate a significant tendency for these two orientations to be perpendicular, indicating that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Yu Rong , Peng Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

A new class of geometric statistics for analyzing galaxy catalogs is presented. Filament statistics quantify filamentarity and planarity in large scale structure in a manner consistent with catalog visualizations. These statistics are based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Romeel Davé , Doug Hellinger , Joel Primack , Richard Nolthenius , Anatoly Klypin

The problem of detecting dark matter filaments in the cosmic web is considered. Weak lensing is an ideal probe of dark matter, and therefore forms the basis of particularly promising detection methods. We consider and develop a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 James M. G. Mead , Lindsay J. King , Ian G. McCarthy

Filaments of the cosmic web drive spin acquisition of disc galaxies. The point process of filament-type saddle represent best this environment and can be used to revisit the Tidal Torque Theory in the context of an anisotropic peak (saddle)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Vincent Desjacques , Julien Devriendt

Detecting the large-scale structure of the Universe based on the galaxy distribution and characterising its components is of fundamental importance in astrophysics but is also a difficult task to achieve. Wide-area spectroscopic redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nicola Malavasi , Nabila Aghanim , Marian Douspis , Hideki Tanimura , Victor Bonjean

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Ankit Singh , Smriti Mahajan , J. S. Bagla

The standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) predicts the existence of the cosmic web: a distribution of matter into sheets and filaments connecting massive halos. However, observational evidence has been elusive due to the low surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Lydia M. Elias , Shy Genel , Amiel Sternberg , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Eli Visbal , Nicolas Bouché

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Peng Wang , Xi Kang

Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filament-dominated web-like structure. Numerical experiments at high and low redshift of viable structure formation theories also show filament-dominance. We present a simple quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Richard Bond , Lev Kofman , Dmitri Pogosyan

A large-scale hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, Horizon-AGN, is used to investigate the alignment between the spin of galaxies and the cosmic filaments above redshift 1.2. The analysis of more than 150 000 galaxies per time step in…

Galaxy properties are known to be affected by their environment. This is well established for the extremes of the density scales, between the high-density cluster environment and the low-density field. It is however not fully understood how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-20 Callum J. O'Kane , Ulrike Kuchner , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

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
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