Can intrinsic alignments of elongated low-mass galaxies be used to map the cosmic web at high redshift?

Viraj Pandya, Joel Primack, Peter Behroozi +13

Hubble Space Telescope observations show that low-mass ($M_{\ast }=10^9-10^{10}{M}_{\odot }$) galaxies at high redshift ($z=1.0-2.5$) tend to be elongated (prolate) rather than disky (oblat…