Filamentary pattern in the cosmic web: galaxy filaments as pearl necklaces

Filamentary Jets as a Cosmic-ray “zevatron”

Strong, anisotropic turbulence reflecting magnetized filaments is considered, to model the diffusive acceleration of particles by shock waves in active galactic nucleus jets. We address that at knot A of the nearby M87 jet, the shock involving the filamentary turbulence can accelerate an iron nucleus to zetta-eV (ZeV; 10 eV) ranges. A smaller value of the particle diffusion coefficient is found...

Cosmic Walls and Filaments Formation in Modied Chaplygin Gas Cosmology

We want to study the perturbation growth of an initial seed of an ellipsoidal shape in Top-Hat collapse model of the structure formation in the Modied Chaplygin gas cosmology. Considering reasonable values of the constants and the parameters of the model under study, we can show that a very small deviation from spherical symmetry (ellipsoidal geometry) in the initial seed leads to a nal highly ...

Dynamics of Cosmic Necklaces

We perform numerical simulations of cosmic necklaces (systems of monopoles connected to two strings each) and investigate the conditions under which monopoles annihilate. When the total monopole energy is large compared to the string energy, we find that the string motion is no longer periodic, and thus the strings will be chopped up by self intersection. When the total monopole energy is much ...

How Filaments Are Woven Into The Cosmic Web

Primordial black holes from cosmic necklaces

Cosmic necklaces are hybrid topological defects consisting of monopoles and strings. We argue that primordial black holes(PBH) may have formed from loops of the necklaces, if there exist stable winding states, such as coils and cycloops. Unlike the standard scenario of PBH formation from string loops, in which it has been suggested that the production ratio f becomes a tiny fraction f ∼ 10−20, ...