3 papers
astro-ph.CO2026
Caustic Skeleton and the Local Cosmic Web: the Coma Cluster node and the Pisces-Perseus ridge
Amelie Read, Job Feldbrugge, Celine Boehm +2
We apply caustic skeleton theory to the Manticore-Local simulations, which are Bayesian constrained reconstructions of the Local Universe from the 2M++ galaxy catalogue, and extrac…
astro-ph.CO2026
Galaxy Populations in the IllustrisTNG Caustic Skeleton
Benjamin Hertzsch, Job Feldbrugge, Rien van de Weygaert
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…
astro-ph.CO2025
A New Recipe for Caustic Pancakes: On the Reality of Walls in the Cosmic Web
Benjamin Hertzsch, Job Feldbrugge, Maé Rodriguez +1
The caustic skeleton model is a mathematically rigorous framework for studying the formation history of the emerging cosmic web from the caustics in the underlying dark matter flow…