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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

We investigate the alignment between the spin vectors of galaxy groups and the axes of their nearest cosmic filaments using the TNG300-1 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. By systematically analyzing a large sample of groups, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Hao-da Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

In this paper we analyse the alignment of galaxy groups with the surrounding large scale structure traced by spectroscopic galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We characterise these alignments by means of an extension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dante J. Paz , Mario A. Sgró , Manuel Merchán , Nelson Padilla

We use galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to examine the alignment between the orientation of the central galaxy (defined as the brightest group member) and the distribution of satellite galaxies. By construction, we…

Using a sample of galaxy groups found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4, we measure the following four types of alignment signals: (1) the alignment between the distributions of the satellites of each group relative to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Yougang Wang , Changbom Park , Xiaohu Yang , Yun-Young Choi , Xuelei Chen

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

Based on galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and subhalos in the corresponding reconstructed region from the constrained simulation of ELUCID, we study the alignment of central galaxies relative to their host groups in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo

Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Legacy Survey, we study the alignment of luminous galaxies with spectroscopic data with the surrounding larger-scale structure as defined by galaxies with only photometric data. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Dhvanil D. Desai , Barbara S. Ryden

We present a theoretical study of galaxy spin correlation statistics, with detailed technical derivations. We also find an expression for the spin-density cross-correlation, and apply that to the Tully galaxy catalog. The observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Jounghun Lee , Ue-Li Pen

A robust detection of the tidally induced intrinsic alignments of the late-type spiral galaxies with high statistical significance is reported. From the spectroscopic galaxy sample of SDSS DR7 compiled by Huertas-Company et al. which lists…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jounghun Lee

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

This work investigates the alignment of galactic spins with the cosmic web across cosmic time using the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. The cosmic web structure is extracted via the persistent skeleton as implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Codis , A. Jindal , N. E. Chisari , D. Vibert , Y. Dubois , C. Pichon , J. Devriendt

The tidal torque theory (TTT) predicts that galaxy spins are correlated with the surrounding tidal field, reflecting how angular momentum is acquired during structure formation. We present a new observational test of this prediction using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Jun-Sung Moon , Teppei Okumura

Recent studies have shown that the distribution of satellite galaxies is preferentially aligned with the major axis of their central galaxy. The strength of this alignment has been found to depend strongly on the colours of the satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 X. Kang , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang , Shude Mao , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Y. P. Jing

Using a sample of spiral galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), we investigate the alignment of spin axes of spiral galaxies with their surrounding large scale structure, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , Wentao Luo , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

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

We discover alignment of galaxies in clusters by analyzing the distribution of their position angles. We assume that galaxies are aligned, if their number at one 90deg position angle interval is more than twice higher than at another 90deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-08 Hrant M. Tovmassian , J. P. Torres-Papaqui

Observations suggest that red central galaxies align closely with their group galaxies and the large-scale environment.This finding was also replicated in simulations, which added information about the alignment of the stars that form the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , M. Celeste Artale

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Peng Wang , Xiao-Xiao Tang , Hao-Da Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Wei Wang , Youcai Zhang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

Using a new statistical approach we study the alignment signal of galactic spins with respect to the center of voids identified in the TNG-300 simulation. We explore this signal in different samples of galaxies, varying their distance from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-08 F. Dávila-Kurbán , M. Lares , D. Garcia Lambas
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