The spin and orientation of dark matter halos within cosmic filaments

Details The spin and orientation of dark matter halos within cosmic filaments The spin and orientation of dark matter halos within cosmic filaments

2009-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/0906.1654v3

Astrophys.J.706:747-761,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

13 pages, 16 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/747

Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is far less well established than the identification of dark matter halos or voids. One method is based on the smoothed dark matter density field, the other uses the halo distributions directly. We apply both techniques to one high resolution N-body simulation and reconstruct the filamentary/sheet like network of the dark matter density field. We focus on investigating the properties of the dark matter halos inside these structures, in particular on the directions of their spins and the orientation of their shapes with respect to the directions of the filaments and sheets. We find that both the spin and the major axes of filament-halos with masses <= 10^{13} M_sun/h are preferentially aligned with the direction of the filaments. The spins and major axes of halos in sheets tend to lie parallel to the sheets. There is an opposite mass dependence of the alignment strengths for the spin (negative) and major (positive) axes, i.e. with increasing halo mass the major axis tends to be more strongly aligned with the direction of the filament whereas the alignment between halo spin and filament becomes weaker with increasing halo mass. The alignment strengths as a function of distance to the most massive node halo indicate that there is a transit large scale environment impact: from the 2-D collapse phase of the filament to the 3-D collapse phase of the cluster/node halo at small separation. Overall, the two algorithms for filament/sheet identification investigated here agree well with each other. The method based on halos alone can be easily adapted for use with observational data sets.

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