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 filaments, aligning their spins with the filaments, whereas high mass halos grow by mergers along filaments, generating spins perpendicular to the filament. We search for this alignment signal using filaments identified with the "Cosmic Web Reconstruction" algorithm applied to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample and galaxy spins from the MaNGA integral-field unit survey. MaNGA produces a map of the galaxy's rotational velocity, allowing direct measurement of the galaxy's spin direction, or unit angular momentum vector projected onto the sky. We find no evidence for alignment between galaxy spins and filament directions. We do find hints of a mass-dependent alignment signal, which is in 2-3$σ$ tension with the mass-dependent alignment signal in the MassiveBlack-II and Illustris hydrodynamical simulations. However, the tension vanishes when galaxy spin is measured using the H$α$ emission line velocity rather than stellar velocity. Finally, in simulations we find that the mass-dependent transition from aligned to anti-aligned dark matter halo spins is not necessarily present in stellar spins: we find a stellar spin transition in Illustris but not in MassiveBlack-II, highlighting the sensitivity of spin-filament alignments to feedback prescriptions and subgrid physics.
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 Survey using Disperse and the 3D spins of MaNGA galaxies are estimated using the thin disk approximation with integral field spectroscopy kinematics. Late-type spiral galaxies are found to have their spins parallel to the closest filament's axis. The alignment signal is found to be dominated by low-mass spirals. Spins of S0-type galaxies tend to be oriented preferentially in perpendicular direction with respect to the fila…
Galaxies, as well as their satellites, are known to form within the cosmic web: the large, multi-scale distribution of matter in the universe. It is known that the surrounding large scale structure (LSS) can impact and influence the formation of galaxies, e.g. the spin and shape of haloes or galaxies are correlated with the LSS and the correlation depends on halo mass or galaxy morphology. In this work, we use group and filament catalogues constructed from the SDSS DR12 to investigate the correlation between satellite systems and the large scale filaments they are located in. We find that the …
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 exploit the SAMI Galaxy Survey to identify 3D spin axes from spatially-resolved stellar kinematics and to decompose the galaxy into the kinematic bulge and disc components. The GAMA survey is used to reconstruct the cosmic filaments. The mass of the bulge, defined as the product of stellar mass and bulge-to-total flux ratio M_bulge=M_star x (B/T), is the primary parameter of correlation with spin-filament alignments: gal…
The alignment between halo spins and the cosmic web is still poorly understood despite being a widely studied topic. Here, we study this alignment within the context of tidal torque theory (TTT) and deviations from it. To this end, we analyze the evolution of the shape and spin direction of proto-haloes, i.e. of all the volume elements associated to a $z=0$ halo, with respect to the present-day filaments. We find that the major axis of proto-haloes undergoes a major change, from being strongly perpendicular to the filament spine in the initial conditions, to being preferentially aligned at the…
The Evolution of the Spin Alignments of Dark Matter Halos in the Cosmic Web
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María（费德里科·圣玛丽亚技术大学）；Millenium Nucleus for Galaxies (MINGAL)（星系千年核心（MINGAL））；Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550（斯特拉斯堡天文台，斯特拉斯堡大学，法国国家科学研究中心，UMR 7550）；Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)（科尔多瓦天文台，科尔多瓦国立大学（UNC））；Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental, CONICET-UNC（理论与实验天体物理研究所，阿根廷国家科学研究委员会-科尔多瓦国立大学）
We explore the evolution of halo spins in the cosmic web using a very large sample of dark matter haloes in the $Λ$CDM Planck-Millennium N-body simulation. We use the NEXUS+ multiscale formalism to identify the hierarchy of filaments and sheets of the cosmic web at several redshifts. We find that at all times the magnitude of halo spins correlates with the web environment, being largest in filaments, and, for the first time, we show that it also correlates with filament thickness as well as the angle between spin-orientation and the spine of the host filament. For example, massive haloes in th…
B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): VI. Grain alignment mechanisms in the massive quiescent filament G16.96+0.27 using dust polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2
Indian Institute of Astrophysics（印度天体物理研究所）；Pondicherry University（本地治里大学）；Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute（韩国天文与空间科学研究所）；University of Science and Technology, Korea（韩国科学技术院）；Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海天文台）；Center for Astrophysics and Science Exploration, Vietnam National Space Cen（越南国家空间中心天体物理学与科学探索中心）
We study the 3D axis of rotation (3D spin) of 77 HI galaxies from the MIGHTEE-HI Early Science observations, and its relation to the filaments of the cosmic web. For this HI-selected sample, the alignment between the spin axis and the closest filament ($\lvert \cos ψ\rvert$) is higher for galaxies closer to the filaments, with $\langle\lvert \cos ψ\rvert\rangle= 0.66 \pm 0.04$ for galaxies $<5$ Mpc from their closest filament compared to $\langle\lvert \cos ψ\rvert\rangle= 0.37 \pm 0.08$ for galaxies at $5 < d <10$ Mpc. We find that galaxies with a low HI-to-stellar mass ratio ($\log_{10}(M_{\…
B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): IV. Grain alignment mechanisms in Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) using polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2
Where Galaxies Point: First Measurement of the Large-Scale Axial Intrinsic Alignment
Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas（巴西物理研究中心）；Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro（里约热内卢联邦大学）；Observatório Nacional（国家天文台）；Universidade Federal do Rio Grande（里奥格兰德联邦大学）；Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto（欧罗普雷图联邦大学）；INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste（意大利国家天体物理研究所的里雅斯特天文台）
B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): III. Grain alignment and disruption mechanisms in G34.43+0.24 using polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2
CHILES VI: HI and H$α$ Observations for z < 0.1 Galaxies; Probing HI Spin Alignment with Filaments in the Cosmic Web
我们目前的中性氢（HI）和电离氢（H $α$）的观测10个星系的红移为0.1。HI观测来自COSMOS HI大型河外巡天（智利）的第一个纪元（178小时）。我们的样本是HI偏置的，由10个晚型星系组成，HI质量范围从$1.8\times10^{7}$ M $_{\odot}$到$1.1\times10^{10}$ M $_{\odot}$。我们发现，虽然大多数星系的形态和运动学的不规则性，他们一般遵循的标度关系中发现的较大的样本。我们发现，HI和H $α$速度达到旋转曲线的平坦部分。我们确定的大尺度结构在附近的智利体积使用DisPerSE与光谱目录从SDSS。我们探索的气体性质的星系作为一个功能的位置在宇宙网络。我们还比较了角动量矢量（自旋）的星系最近的宇宙网丝的方向。我们的研究结果表明，星系自旋往往与宇宙网细丝对齐，并显示出与自旋角对齐相关的过渡质量的暗示。
Formation of HI Clouds in Shock-compressed Interstellar Medium: Physical Origin of Angular Correlation Between Filamentary Structure and Magnetic Field
We find that the minor axes of the ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in Abell 2634 tend to be aligned with the major axis of the central dominant galaxy, at a $\gtrsim 95\%$ confidence level. This alignment is produced by the bright UDGs with the absolute magnitudes $M_r<-15.3$ mag, and outer-region UDGs with $R>0.5R_{200}$. The alignment signal implies that these bright, outer-region UDGs are very likely to acquire their angular momenta from the vortices around the large-scale filament before they were accreted into A2634, and form their extended stellar bodies outside of the cluster; in this sce…
Most cosmological structures in the universe spin. 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 poorly understood. We have investigated the possibility that filaments of galaxies - cylindrical tendrils of matter hundreds of millions of light-years across, are themselves spinning. By stacking thousands of filaments together and examining the velocity of galaxies perpendicular to the filament's axis (via their red and blue shift), we have found that these objects t…
Spin$-$orbit alignment (SOA; i.e., the vector alignment between the halo spin and the orbital angular momentum of neighboring halos) provides an important clue to how galactic angular momenta develop. For this study, we extract virial-radius-wise contact halo pairs with mass ratios between 1/10 and 10 from a set of cosmological $N$-body simulations. In the spin--orbit angle distribution, we find a significant SOA in that 52.7%$\pm$0.2% of neighbors are on the prograde orbit. The SOA of our sample is mainly driven by low-mass target halos ($<10^{11.5}h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) with close merging neighbo…
The Milky Way atlas for linear filaments II. clump rotation versus filament orientation
Chongqing University（重庆大学）；Peking University（北京大学）；S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences（S.N.玻色基础科学国家中心）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院国家天文台）
The major interactions are known to trigger star formation in galaxies and alter their colour. We study the major interactions in filaments and sheets using the SDSS data to understand the influence of large-scale environments on the galaxy interactions. We identify the galaxies in filaments and sheets using the local dimension and also find the major pairs residing in these environments. The star formation rate and colour of the interacting galaxies as a function of pair separation are separately analyzed in filaments and sheets. The analysis is repeated for three volume limited samples cover…
SIMPLIFI-Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: A Legacy Investigation of Filaments. II. Enhancement of grain alignment near embedded protostars in the DR21 Ridge
Chalmers University of Technology（查尔姆斯理工大学）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Leiden University（莱顿大学）；Universität Heidelberg（海德堡大学）；Boston University（波士顿大学）；NASA Ames Research Center（美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心）；University of Massachusetts, Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校）；Queen’s University（女王大学）
