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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…

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Intrinsic alignments are believed to be a major source of systematics for future generation of weak gravitational lensing surveys like Euclid or LSST. Direct measurements of the alignment of the projected light distribution of galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Sandrine Codis , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

Cosmological theories suggest that the angular momentum of galaxies should be closely linked to the structure of the cosmic web. The Local Supercluster is the closest and most studied structure where the orientation of galaxy spins can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 P. Dolgosheeva , D. Makarov , N. Libeskind

Filaments and clusters of the cosmic web have an impact on the properties of galaxies, switching off their star-formation, contributing to the build-up of their stellar mass, and influencing the acquisition of their angular momentum. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Nicola Malavasi , Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Céline Gouin

In the linear theory, the galaxy angular momentum vectors which originate from the initial tidal interactions with surrounding matter distribution intrinsically develop perpendicular alignments with the directions of maximum matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon

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

Previous studies have shown the filamentary structures in the cosmic web influence the alignments of nearby galaxies. We study this effect in the LOWZ sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using the "Cosmic Web Reconstruction" filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jonathan Blazek , Siyu He , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peter Melchior , Sukhdeep Singh

Using a sample of $>200$ clusters, each with typically $100-200$ spectroscopically confirmed cluster members, we search for a signal of alignment between the Position Angle (PA) of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) and the distribution of…

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

The variations of galaxy stellar masses and colour-types with the distance to projected cosmic filaments are quantified using the precise photometric redshifts of the COSMOS2015 catalogue extracted from COSMOS field (2 deg$^{2}$). Realistic…

We explore how the galaxy stellar spins acquire a peculiar tendency of being aligned with the major principal axes of the local tidal fields, in contrast to their DM counterparts which tend to be perpendicular to them, regardless of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon , Suk-Jin Yoon

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 investigate the alignment of haloes with the filaments of the cosmic web using an unprecedently large sample of dark matter haloes taken from the P-Millennium $\Lambda$CDM cosmological N-body simulation. We use the state-of-the-art NEXUS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Bernard J. T. Jones , Steven Rieder , Carlos S. Frenk

An observational evidence for the intrinsic galaxy alignments in isolated spiral pairs is presented. From the catalog of the galaxy groups identified by Tempel et al. in the flux limited galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Hanwool Koo , Jounghun Lee

The spin of galaxy clusters encodes key information about their formation, dynamics, and the influence of large-scale structure. However, whether clusters possess statistically significant spin and how to measure it observationally remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Weiguang cui , Min Bao

The properties of galaxies are known to have been influenced by the large-scale structures that they inhabit. Theory suggests that galaxies acquire angular momentum during the linear stage of structure formation, and hence predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yuvraj Muralichandran , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel

By the 2040s, several all-sky surveys will have transformed our view of the large-scale structure. However, one of the major outstanding questions in astrophysics will remain: understanding how galaxies acquire and evolve their angular…

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

Using the kinematic position angles (PA_kin), an accurate indicator for the spin axis of a galaxy, obtained from the ATLAS3D integral-field-unit (IFU) spectroscopic data, we discovered that 57 Virgo early-type galaxies tend to prefer the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Suk Kim , Hyunjin Jeong , Jaehyun Lee , Youngdae Lee , Seok-Joo Joo , Hak-Sub Kim , Soo-Chang Rey

Galaxy angular momenta (spins) contain valuable cosmological information, complementing their positions and velocities. The baryonic spin direction of galaxies has been probed as a reliable tracer of their host halos and the primordial spin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Ming-Jie Sheng , Lin Zhu , Hao-Ran Yu , Hongchuan Ma , Haikun Li , Peng Wang , Xi Kang