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Observed Antiparallel Correlation between Spiral Galaxy and Cosmic Filament Spins

  • Authors: Hao-da Wang, 昊达 汪, Peng Wang, 鹏 王, Min Bao, 敏 鲍, Yanmei Chen, 燕梅 陈, Xiao-xiao Tang, 潇潇 唐, Youcai Zhang, 友财 张, Xi Kang, 熙 康, Quan Guo, 铨 郭, Ming-Jie Sheng, 明捷 盛, Hao-Ran Yu, 浩然 于

Hao-da Wang et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 987 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Left panel: the position angle misalignment, Δϕ ≡ ϕstar − ϕgas, between stellar and gas components as a function of galaxy stellar mass, ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })﹩. The blue line with error bars corresponds to spiral galaxies. Error bars represent typical 1σ uncertainties. Middle panel: the number distribution of spiral galaxies as a function of galaxy stellar mass, ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })﹩. Galaxies are divided into two subsamples of almost equal size according to the ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })=10.118﹩, indicated by the vertical dotted line. Right panel: the distribution of filament dynamical temperature ﹩{z}_{\mathrm{rms}}/{{\rm{\Delta }}}_{{{\rm{Z}}}_{\mathrm{AB}}}﹩ (see Section 2.2 for more details). Filaments are divided into either “cold” or “hot” by ﹩{z}_{\mathrm{rms}}/{{\rm{\Delta }}}_{{{\rm{Z}}}_{\mathrm{AB}}}=1﹩, as indicated by the vertical red dotted line.

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