The Spine of the Cosmic Web

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2008-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/0809.5104v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication HIGH-RES version: http://skysrv.pha.jhu.edu/~miguel/SpineWeb/

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We present the SpineWeb framework for the topological analysis of the Cosmic Web and the identification of its walls, filaments and cluster nodes. Based on the watershed segmentation of the cosmic density field, the SpineWeb method invokes the local adjacency properties of the boundaries between the watershed basins to trace the critical points in the density field and the separatrices defined by them. The separatrices are classified into walls and the spine, the network of filaments and nodes in the matter distribution. Testing the method with a heuristic Voronoi model yields outstanding results. Following the discussion of the test results, we apply the SpineWeb method to a set of cosmological N-body simulations. The latter illustrates the potential for studying the structure and dynamics of the Cosmic Web.

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