Galaxy Populations in the IllustrisTNG Caustic Skeleton

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The caustic skeleton is a parameter-free and mathematically rigorous formalism for tracing the hierarchical formation history of the multiscale cosmic web from the singularities in the underlying dark matter flow. In the present study, we explicitly use the multistreaming nature of the cosmic mass distribution to address the influence of the web-like embedding on the galaxy populations and discern their properties in the different environments of the present-day cosmic web. To this end, we construct the multiscale caustic skeleton of the dark mass distribution in the state-of-the-art suite of the large-scale IllustrisTNG simulations. In addition to the multistreaming dark matter density field, we assess the characteristic properties of the intergalactic baryonic gas in the vicinity of the caustics. Next, we associate the galaxies with the voids, walls, filaments and cluster nodes, and investigate their population-level colours and star formation activities. A unique feature of the analysis is that it explicitly addresses the multiscale aspects with respect to the galaxy population, assessing issues such as the fraction of (blue) galaxies as a function of the scale of the cosmic web pattern and its caustic features. We find that the galaxy properties form a continuum in the scale-space cosmic web. Intimately coupled to the hierarchical build-up of the cosmic structure, it also allows us to systematically assess the impact of the formation time of the various structural components of the cosmic web on the galaxy properties. This furthers insight into the establishment of the observed colour-density relation of galaxies.
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Authors Benjamin Hertzsch, Job Feldbrugge, Rien van de Weygaert
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1724
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1724
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