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The correlation between the spins of dark matter halos and the large-scale structure (LSS) has been studied in great detail over a large redshift range, while investigations of galaxies are still incomplete. Motivated by this point, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Xi Kang , Noam I. Libeskind

Galaxies are known to be aligned toward specific directions within the large-scale structure. Such alignment signals become important for controlling the systematics of weak lensing surveys and for constraining galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Motonari Tonegawa , Teppei Okumura , Masao Hayashi

Context. The clustering of dark-matter halos depends primarily on halo mass. However, at fixed halo mass, numerical simulations have revealed multiple secondary dependencies. This so-called secondary halo bias has important implications for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Yigon Kim , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Rory Smith , Jong-Ho Shinn

A numerical detection of the mass-dependent spin transition of the galaxies is presented. Analyzing a sample of the galaxies with stellar masses in the range of $10^{9}< (M_{\star}/M_{\odot})\le 10^{11}$ from the IllustrisTNG300-1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon , Suho Ryu , Suk-Jin Yoon

Multiple observations made by several different telescopes have shown asymmetry between the number of spiral galaxies rotating in opposite directions in different parts of the sky. One of the immediate questions regarding the possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Lior Shamir

To study if the angular momentum gain for each member of a galaxy pair was the result of tidal torques imprinted by the same tidal field, we search for correlations between the spin in pairs of spiral galaxies identified using the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Bernardo Cervantes-Sodi , X. Hernandez , Changbom Park

Motivated by observational results, we use IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical numerical simulations to study the alignment of the central galaxies in groups with the surrounding structures. This approach allows us to analyse galaxy and group…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , M. Celeste Artale , Moira Andrews

We provide limits on the alignment of galaxy orientations with the direction to the void center for galaxies lying near the edges of voids. We locate spherical voids in volume limited samples of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Anže Slosar , Martin White

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…

Halos and galaxies acquire their angular momentum during the collapse of surrounding large-scale structure. This process imprints alignments between galaxy spins and nearby filaments and sheets. Low mass halos grow by accretion onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Alex Krolewski , Shirley Ho , Yen-Chi Chen , P. F. Chan , Ananth Tenneti , Dmitry Bizyaev , Katarina Kraljic

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

The nature of galaxy spin is still not fully known. Iye et al (2021) applied a 3D analysis to a dataset of bright SDSS galaxies that was used in the past for photometric analysis. They showed that the distribution of spin directions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Lior Shamir

We present a pilot analysis of the influence of galaxy stellar mass and cluster environment on the probability of slow rotation in 22 central galaxies at mean redshift $z=0.07$. This includes new integral-field observations of 5 central…

We report the first direct observational evidence for alignment of galaxy spin axes with the local tidal shear field. We measure quantitatively the strength of this directional correlation of disk galaxies from the Tully catalog with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jounghun Lee , Ue-Li Pen

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 (SDSS) and Millennium Simulation (MS) we investigate the alignment between galaxies and large-scale structure. For this purpose we develop two new statistical tools, namely the alignment correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Simon D. M. White , Y. P. Jing , Shude Mao , Jie Wang

Galaxies are not randomly distributed across the universe but showing different kinds of alignment on different scales. On small scales satellite galaxies have a tendency to distribute along the major axis of the central galaxy, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 X. Kang , W. P. Lin , Y. O. Wang , A. Dutton , A. Macciò

Recent observations using several different telescopes and sky surveys showed patterns of asymmetry in the distribution of galaxies by their spin directions as observed from Earth. These studies were done with data imaged from the Northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lior Shamir

We search for correlations between the spin in pairs of spiral galaxies, to study if the angular momentum gain for each galaxy was the result of tidal torques imprint by the same tidal field. To perform our study we made use of a sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Cervantes-Sodi , X. Hernandez , Changbom Park

The DESI Legacy Survey is a digital sky survey with a large footprint compared to other Earth-based surveys, covering both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This paper shows the distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Lior Shamir

Using a large observational sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the spatial alignment between galaxy pairs and their local cosmic filaments. Focusing on pairs with stellar masses and separations comparable to the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Peng Wang