Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin

P Wang, NI Libeskind, E Tempel, X Kang, Q Guo - Nature Astronomy, 2021 - nature.com
Although structures in the Universe form on a wide variety of scales, from small dwarf
galaxies to large super clusters, the generation of angular momentum across these scales is …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: first detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filaments in the stellar kinematics of galaxies

C Welker, J Bland-Hawthorn… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the first detection of mass-dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic
filaments with> 2σ confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: flipping of the spin–filament alignment correlates most strongly with growth of the bulge

S Barsanti, M Colless, C Welker, S Oh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We study the alignments of galaxy spin axes with respect to cosmic web filaments as a
function of various properties of the galaxies and their constituent bulges and discs. We …

Alignments between Galaxies and the Cosmic Web at z∼ 1–2 in the IllustrisTNG Simulations

B Zhang, KG Lee, A Krolewski, J Shi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy formation theories predict that galaxy shapes and angular momenta have
nonrandom alignments with the cosmic web. This leads to so-called intrinsic alignment …

And yet it flips: connecting galactic spin and the cosmic web

K Kraljic, R Davé, C Pichon - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study the spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with respect to filaments and walls of the
cosmic web, identified with DisPerSE, using the Simba simulation from z= 0− 2. Massive …

Virgo filaments-I. Processing of gas in cosmological filaments around the Virgo cluster

G Castignani, F Combes, P Jablonka, RA Finn… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
It is now well established that galaxies have different morphologies, gas contents, and star
formation rates (SFR) in dense environments like galaxy clusters. The impact of …

SDSS-IV MaNGA: 3D spin alignment of spiral and S0 galaxies

K Kraljic, C Duckworth, R Tojeiro, S Alam… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the 3D spin alignment of galaxies with respect to the large-scale filaments
using the MaNGA survey. The cosmic web is reconstructed from the Sloan Digital Sky …

The cosmic web around the Coma cluster from constrained cosmological simulations-I. Filaments connected to Coma at z= 0

N Malavasi, JG Sorce, K Dolag, N Aghanim - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Galaxy clusters in the Universe occupy the important position of nodes of the cosmic web.
They are connected among them by filaments, elongated structures composed of dark …

Particle acceleration in strong MHD turbulence

M Lemoine - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Nonthermal acceleration of particles in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a
central role in a wide variety of astrophysical sites. This physics is addressed here in the …

CHILES VI: H i and H α observations for z < 0.1 galaxies; probing H i spin alignment with filaments in the cosmic web

J Blue Bird, J Davis, N Luber… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present neutral hydrogen (H i) and ionized hydrogen (H α) observations of 10 galaxies
out to a redshift of 0.1. The H i observations are from the first epoch (178 h) of the COSMOS …