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The evolution of galaxies is known to be connected to their position within the large-scale structure and their local environmental density. We investigate the relative importance of these using the underlying dark matter density field…

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We present the result of a comparison between the dark matter distribution inferred from weak gravitational lensing and the observed galaxy distribution to identify dark structures with a high dark matter-to-galaxy density ratio. To do…

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Next-generation surveys will provide photometric and spectroscopic data of millions to billions of galaxies with unprecedented precision. This offers a unique chance to improve our understanding of the galaxy evolution and the unresolved…

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used to study the relationship between dark matter density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Victoria Ono , Core Francisco Park , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Previous studies using numerical simulations have demonstrated that the shape of the cosmic web can be described by studying the Lagrangian displacement field. We extend these analyses, showing that it is now possible to perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin Wandelt , Will Percival

A dynamical classification of the cosmic web is proposed. The large scale environment is classified into four web types: voids, sheets, filaments and knots. The classification is based on the evaluation of the deformation tensor, i.e. the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 J. E. Forero-Romero , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , A. Klypin , G. Yepes

We review how dark matter is distributed in our local neighbourhood from an observational and theoretical perspective. We will start by describing first the dark matter halo of our own galaxy and in the Local Group. Then we proceed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

The lack of tangible evidence for non-gravitational interactions between dark and visible sectors drives the need for exploring new avenues of inferring dark matter properties through purely gravitational probes. In particular, addressing…

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We use topological summaries based on Betti curves to characterize the large-scale spatial distribution of simulated dark matter haloes and galaxies. Using the IllustrisTNG and CAMELS-SAM simulations, we show that the topology of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Aaron Ouellette , Gilbert Holder , Ely Kerman

Studies of cosmological objects should take into account their positions within the cosmic web of large-scale structure. Unfortunately, the cosmic web has only been extensively mapped at low-redshifts ($z<1$), using galaxy redshifts as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Khee-Gan Lee , Martin White

The cosmic web defines the large scale distribution of matter we see in the Universe today. Classifying the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments and nodes allows one to explore structure formation and the role environmental factors have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher , M. S. T. Johnson

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

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The relationship between galaxies and haloes is central to the description of galaxy formation, and a fundamental step towards extracting precise cosmological information from galaxy maps. However, this connection involves several complex…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , L. Raul Abramo

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

Galaxies, diffuse gas, and dark matter make up the cosmic web that defines the large-scale structure of the Universe. We constrained the joint distribution of these constituents by cross-correlating galaxy samples binned by stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Raphaël Kou , James G. Bartlett

We present a novel approach to reconstruct gas and dark matter projected density maps of galaxy clusters using score-based generative modeling. Our diffusion model takes in mock SZ and X-ray images as conditional inputs, and generates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Alan Hsu , Matthew Ho , Joyce Lin , Carleen Markey , Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Barnabás Póczos

Galactic rotation curves are crucial for understanding the distribution of mass in galaxies. Despite advances in precision observations, there are discrepancies between the inferred mass from luminosity and the observed rotational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-05 Gabriela Garcia-Arroyo , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

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