Dancing in the dark: galactic properties trace spin swings along the cosmic web
ArXiv 1402.1165 (2014)
Authors:
Yohan Dubois, Christophe Pichon, Charlotte Welker, Damien Le Borgne, Julien Devriendt, Clotilde Laigle, Sandrine Codis, Dmitry Pogosyan, Stéphane Arnouts, Karim Benabed, Emmanuel Bertin, Jeremy Blaizot, François Bouchet, Jean-François Cardoso, Stéphane Colombi, Valérie de Lapparent, Vincent Desjacques, Raphaël Gavazzi, Susan Kassin, Taysun Kimm, Henry McCracken, Bruno Milliard, Sébastien Peirani, Simon Prunet, Stéphane Rouberol, Joseph Silk, Adrianne Slyz, Thierry Sousbie, Romain Teyssier, Laurence Tresse, Marie Treyer, Didier Vibert, Marta Volonteri
Abstract:
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 the redshift range 1.2
