Galaxy evolution in the cosmic web: the relative impact of nodes and filaments in the EAGLE simulation

arXiv:2602.20733 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-02-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-02-24

Updated: 2026-07-22

Comments: 28 pages, 11 figures, and 1 table, included analyses on environmental trends at fixed stellar and halo mass, Accepted for publication in JCAP

Journal ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026, 09, 025

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2026/09/025

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Red Sequence — 15× in this paper
• Blue Cloud — 13× in this paper
• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Environmental Quenching — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information-Theoretic Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Galaxy Quenching — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyses of Sloan Digital Sky Survey — 1× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Multiscale Phenomenology of the Cosmic Web
• Evolution of the cosmic web
• Tracing the cosmic web
• Exploring star formation using the filaments in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Five (SDSS DR5)
• Star formation in galaxies falling into clusters along supercluster-scale filaments
• From voids to filaments: environmental transformations of galaxies in the SDSS
• The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Galaxy segregation inside filaments at $z \simeq 0.7$
• COSMOS2015 photometric redshifts probe the impact of filaments on galaxy properties
• Exploring galaxy colour in different environments of the cosmic web with SDSS
• How galaxy properties vary with filament proximity in the SIMBA simulations
• The UV-optical Galaxy Color-Magnitude Diagram I: Basic Properties
• Green Valley Galaxies
• The Green Valley is a Red Herring: Galaxy Zoo reveals two evolutionary pathways towards quenching of star formation in early- and late-type galaxies
• Green valley galaxies in the cosmic web: internal versus environmental quenching
• The long road to the Green Valley: Tracing the evolution of the Green Valley galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
• Galaxy Transformation Across the Cosmic Web: Evolution of Stellar Colours and Star Formation Rates in Filaments
• The correlations between galaxy properties in different environments of the cosmic web
• Galaxy quenching across the Cosmic Web: disentangling mass and environment with SDSS DR18
• Impact of cosmic web on galaxy properties and their correlations: Insights from Principal Component Analysis
• Tracing correlations between galaxy properties across the Cosmic Web: An IllustrisTNG-based study

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