The Cosmic Ballet II: spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with large-scale filaments in the EAGLE simulation
| Autor: | Marius Cautun, Rien van de Weygaert, Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena, Carlos S. Frenk, Elmo Tempel |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Astronomy |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics 01 natural sciences methods: numerical Protein filament 0103 physical sciences Perpendicular 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics Spiral galaxy COSMIC cancer database Mass distribution Spins 010308 nuclear & particles physics Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Galaxy galaxies: haloes Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Elliptical galaxy large-scale structure of Universe Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487, 1607-1625. Oxford University Press Monthly notices of the royal astronomical society, 2019, Vol.487(2), pp.1607-1625 [Peer Reviewed Journal] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stz1343 |
| Popis: | We investigate the alignment of galaxies and haloes relative to cosmic web filaments using the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation. We identify filaments by applying the NEXUS+ method to the mass distribution and the Bisous formalism to the galaxy distribution. Both web finders return similar filamentary structures that are well aligned and that contain comparable galaxy populations. EAGLE haloes have an identical spin alignment with filaments as their counterparts in dark matter only simulations: a complex mass dependent trend with low mass haloes spinning preferentially parallel to and high mass haloes spinning preferentially perpendicular to filaments. In contrast, galaxy spins do not show such a spin transition and have a propensity for perpendicular alignments at all masses, with the degree of alignment being largest for massive galaxies. This result is valid for both NEXUS+ and Bisous filaments. When splitting by morphology, we find that elliptical galaxies show a stronger orthogonal spin--filament alignment than spiral galaxies of similar mass. The same is true of their haloes, with the host haloes of elliptical galaxies having a larger degree of orthogonal alignment than the host haloes of spirals. Due to the misalignment between galaxy shape and spin, galaxy minor axes are oriented differently with filaments than galaxy spins. We find that the galaxies whose minor axis is perpendicular to a filament are much better aligned with their host haloes. This suggests that many of the same physical processes determine both the galaxy--filament and the galaxy--halo alignments. Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to MNRAS |
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