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Xi Kang

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ELUCID-DESI II. Revealing dark matter mass, tidal, and velocity (MTV) fields using galaxy group phase information

We introduce a novel method for reconstructing the cosmic mass, tidal, and velocity (MTV) fields over the redshift range $0 < z < 0.6$ using the phase information of galaxy groups. This approach replaces the explicit theoretical bias correction typically needed to relate galaxy groups to the underlying dark matter density field with a simulation-calibrated statistical mapping, reducing a major source of systematic uncertainty and making the method directly applicable to spectroscopic redshift surveys such as the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS). We evaluate the performance of our MTV reconstruction pipeline with mock redshift surveys that include a comprehensive set of observational selection effects. The galaxy groups used as tracers are identified with an extended halo-based group finder applied to the DESI mock galaxy catalogue with an apparent magnitude limit of $m_z < 19.65$, yielding a galaxy number comparable to that of the DESI BGS faint sample ($m_r < 20.175$). Our tests show that the reconstructed velocities are accurate and unbiased, with a residual dispersion of $\sim 120\ \mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$ across the redshift bins. The recovered velocity field allows us to shift galaxy groups to their real-space positions, thereby correcting for the Kaiser effect. By iteratively applying this Kaiser correction to the galaxy groups, we further reconstruct the tidal field and the mass-density distribution. The reconstruction is stable with respect to the grid resolution. Overall, our results demonstrate that this group-based phase-space reconstruction provides a robust pathway to recovering the dark matter MTV fields, with strong prospects for application to DESI BGS data.

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Observational Evidence for the Kinematic Memory of Cosmic Filaments from Satellite Orbital Orientations

We present an observational study of the kinematic coherence between satellite orbital planes and the cosmic web. Using the SDSS DR12 galaxy sample combined with the Bisous filament catalogue, we investigate whether the orbital motion of satellites preserves the memory of filamentary accretion. For each satellite system, we define a projected orbital-normal vector using galaxy sky positions and line-of-sight velocity offsets. By measuring the angle $\theta$ between this vector and the local projected filament direction, we detect a distinctive preferred orientation: satellite orbital planes tend to contain or lie parallel to the filament axis. This signal deviates from the isotropic expectation at a high significance level of $12.8\sigma$. The strength of this kinematic connection depend strongly on environment and host properties. The preference for orbital planes to track the filament direction is most pronounced for groups in close distance to the filament spine and for more massive hosts. Conversely, at intermediate distances from the filament and at large group-centric radii, the signal reverses, indicating a tendency for orbital planes to be oriented perpendicular to the filament. Our findings provide direct observational evidence for the two-phase model of filamentary accretion, where a transition from initial perpendicular collapse toward the filament spine to subsequent parallel streamwise infall into dark matter haloes governs the orientation of satellite orbital angular momentum and galaxy spin. The observed transition may further trace the characteristic radial scale of filaments, offering a dynamical perspective on the internal structure and assembly of the cosmic filament.

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Tightening Bounds on Warm Dark Matter with High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts

The cold dark matter paradigm successfully explains large-scale structure but faces persistent tensions on small scales. Warm dark matter (WDM) with $\mathrm{keV}$-scale particles can alleviate these issues by suppressing small-scale structure formation. The presence of collapsed structures at high redshifts places strong lower limits on the WDM particle mass $m_x$. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ideal high-redshift probes due to their extreme brightness. Using the most recent \emph{Swift} GRB data accumulated over the past two decades, we derive robust constraints on $m_x$ by conservatively assuming that the comoving GRB formation rate is proportional to the cosmic star formation rate (SFR), with an additional redshift evolution parameterized as $(1+z)^\alpha$. Applying a maximum-likelihood analysis to 118 GRBs with redshift $z<10$ and luminosity $L\ge 4.0\times10^{52}\,\mathrm{erg\,s^{-1}}$, we obtain $m_x \gtrsim 1.23\,\mathrm{keV}$ and $\alpha=1.57^{+1.14}_{-0.57}$ at the 95\% confidence level (CL). The no-evolution scenario ($\alpha=0$), in which the GRB rate exactly traces the SFR without additional redshift evolution, is excluded at the $5\sigma$ level. Adopting the best-fit value $\alpha=1.57$ as a prior tightens the lower limit on $m_x$ to $m_x \gtrsim 1.59\,\mathrm{keV}$ at the 95\% CL. These robust constraints demonstrate that GRBs are a powerful probe of the early Universe. A better understanding of the relationship between the GRB rate and the SFR would enable even tighter limits on WDM models.

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Warped Disk Galaxies: Alignment with the Large-Scale Tidal Field

A possible origin of disk galaxy warps is the misalignment between galactic disks and their host dark matter halos, the orientations of which are found to be statistically aligned with the large-scale tidal field. In this work, we test this scenario by examining the alignment between warped disk galaxies and the large-scale tidal field reconstructed from the ELUCID project. We find a statistically significant alignment signal between disk orientations and the $t_1$ direction, with warped and non-warped galaxies showing different alignment behaviors. Warped galaxies show an excess of intermediate angles and a preference for orientations slightly offset from perfect parallel and perpendicular alignments. In contrast, non-warped galaxies exhibit a deficit of intermediate angles relative to random expectations, which becomes more pronounced after matching to a control sample. We also find a clear mass dependence, with high-mass warped galaxies contributing the excess of intermediate-angle signal. No significant alignment signal in warped galaxies is detected with the $t_3$ direction.

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The dependence of Circumgalactic Medium properties on halo assembly histories in the IllustrisTNG simulations

While halo mass is the dominant factor shaping the embedded galaxies, the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) also depend on halo assembly history. To investigate this, we calculate the formation times for TNG50 halos with masses between $10^{10.5}$ and $10^{12.5} M_\odot$, classifying them into `early-' and `late-forming' populations. It is found that across all mass bins, early-formed halos generally host galaxies with higher stellar mass and higher metallicity, with lower CGM gas mass and lower specific star formation rate (sSFR) at $z\sim0$. For the CGM metallicity, `early' halos with masses below $10^{12}\mathrm{M_\odot}$ show systematically higher gas phase metallicities, whereas in the $10^{12-12.5}\mathrm{M_\odot}$ bin the trend reverses. When examining the origins of the CGM gas, it is found that fresh accretion is insensitive to assembly history, whereas the `late' galaxies experience more wet mergers. These differences in gas properties arise from processes after the formation time, given that the CGM gas masses show no significant differences at formation time. Finally, our analysis of CGM kinematics shows that for halos below $10^{12}\mathrm{M_\odot}$, the cold gas in late-forming halos carries higher specific angular momentum and simply has a higher degree of rotational support, while the same properties in the $10^{12-12.5}\mathrm{M_\odot}$ bin shows no significant dependence on assembly history.

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Feedback-Free Star Formation in Clusters within a Galaxy Simulated at High Resolution in Cosmic Dawn

We perform a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a massive galaxy ($M_s\sim10^{10}\rm M_\odot$ at $z\sim10$) using the GIZMO code. By employing $\leq 3\rm pc$ resolution and a $3.4\rm Myr$ supernova feedback delay, we capture the feedback-free starbursts (FFB) in clusters. The simulation reproduces FFB model predictions and super-bright galaxies observed by JWST. At $z\sim10$, cold streams feed a compact galaxy ($R_{\rm e}\sim1\rm kpc$), with stellar and surface densities ($>10^5\rm cm^{-3}$, $>10^5\rm M_\odot pc^{-2}$) exceeding FFB thresholds. The global star-formation efficiency (SFE) is $\varepsilon_s\sim0.2\text{--}0.3$, associated with a fluctuating star-formation history. We identified over $10^5$ star clusters ($M_{\star}>10^{4.5}\rm M_\odot$) with a nearly scale-free mass distribution (${\rm d}N/{{\rm d}\log M}\propto M^{-1.06}$). Approximately 90\% of star formation occurs in clusters, which at a given time constitute $30\text{--}40\%$ of the total stellar mass. The star formation in most of the clusters of masses $<10^7\rm M_\odot$, occurs in bursts of $<3\rm Myr$ and a local SFE $\sim0.5\pm 0.2$. Cluster metallicities ($-2.01<\log (Z/Z_\odot)<-0.45$) indicate rapid baryon recycling. Feedback-driven outflows exhibit typical temperature of $10^7\rm K$ and typical velocities of $\sim 2000\rm km\ s^{-1}$. In the highly dynamic central $1\rm kpc$, clusters undergo rapid orbital decay and merge to assemble the oblate nuclear stellar cluster. Cluster shapes range from oblate to prolate, with a triaxial median. These clusters are consistent with JWST observations, and a fraction of them may survive to yield the globular clusters (GCs) at low redshifts.

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The FAST Hundred-Deg$^2$ HI Deep (HD$^2$) Survey: Early Results from the Pilot Survey

The Hundred-deg$^2$ HI Deep (HD$^2$) survey carried out with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is planned to map a contiguous region within the DESI DR1 footprint, achieving an effective integration time of 20 minutes for each pointing and a uniform detection sensitivity of 0.28 mJy beam$^{-1}$ at 4.8 km s$^{-1}$ resolution. We present early results from the pilot HD$^2$ survey: a 10 deg$^2$ field overlapping with HSC-SSP and the DESI EDR SV3, observed with an integration time of 7.3 minutes per beam and the rms of 0.45 mJy beam$^{-1}$ at 4.8 km s$^{-1}$ resolution. We identify 339 HI sources at $z<0.09$, corresponding to $\sim$34 detections per deg$^2$, nearly six times higher than the detection rate of the wide-field surveys. Optical counterparts are primarily identified using DESI redshifts, yielding a matching rate and correctness exceeding 90% for galaxies with $r<19.5$ mag, a substantial improvement over SDSS. Under the constraint of $r < 17.8$ mag and $0.01 < z < 0.05$, nearly 50% of galaxies in the DESI BGS samples have HI detections in this pilot survey. The optical properties of these HI-detected galaxies span nearly the entire parameter range of the DESI sample. The gas fraction scaling relations versus stellar mass, stellar mass surface density, NUV-r, and specific star formation rate are consistent with previous surveys, e.g., ALFALFA, DINGO, and xGASS. These results justify the feasibility of the full HD$^2$ survey, which will build a high-completeness HI census over a contiguous area to probe the cold gas scaling relations of galaxies over different scales.

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Closing the Observational Gap in Cosmic Dynamics: AI-Enabled Reconstruction of the Universe's Vorticity and Rotational Flow Morphology

The cosmic vorticity field, an essential tracer of nonlinear structure formation, has remained observationally inaccessible because transverse galaxy motions are difficult to measure and analytic models struggle to capture shell-crossing. Here we report an empirical reconstruction of this field by applying an artificial intelligence framework trained on simulations of the concordance LambdaCDM model to Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies. The recovered three-dimensional velocity and vorticity fields reveal coherent vortical structures, including spiral flows in clusters, filaments, and voids, and the cosmic web inferred from vorticity closely matches that derived from density segmentation. The power spectra of the reconstructed velocity and vorticity fields agree statistically with LambdaCDM predictions, and the inferred velocity field effectively removes redshift-space distortions, yielding an almost isotropic clustering signal. These converging lines of evidence, obtained from an independent perspective, reinforce the concordance cosmological model. By closing a long-standing observational gap, our results highlight the potential of AI-driven reconstruction to access otherwise unobservable quantities and to address fundamental questions in cosmology and galaxy formation.

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Recovering the infall mass for Milky Way satellite galaxy Sextans

Understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way (MW) requires detailed knowledge of its satellite galaxies. In this study, we focus on the Sextans dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, a faint, dark matter (DM)-dominated satellite, to investigate the role of tidal and baryonic effects in shaping its observed properties. Using tailored $N$-body simulations, we explore possible orbits of Sextans in different MW models to reconstruct its progenitor's properties. Our simulations demonstrate the stars in Sextans are only mildly affected by galactic tides and the stellar kinematics provide robust constraints on its dynamical mass within the half-light radius, while the tidal mass loss of its DM component depends primarily on MW mass. The recovered infall mass of Sextans ranges from $1.22$ to $3.14\times10^9\rm\,M_\odot$ for MW masses from $0.8$ to $2\times10^{12}\rm\,M_\odot$. If the DM density remained as cuspy as NFW profile, the infall mass would be smaller by a factor of 2. Although with large ranges, the possible infall masses of Sextans recovered by our simulations are consistent with the stellar mass-halo mass relation in TNG50 and abundance matching results. We find some cases for the cuspy DM density profile where the infall mass is smaller than $10^9\rm\,M_\odot$, possibly indicating that star formation in Sextans is more efficient than in other satellites. The recovered DM halo structural parameters from our simulations provide valuable constraints for future studies on the DM content and formation history of Sextans.

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Unveiling the Sources of X-ray Luminosity in DESI Galaxy Groups: Insights from the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey

We use the first eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS1) to investigate the contributions of AGN and extended gas to the total X-ray luminosity ($L_X$) of galaxy groups with different halo masses ($M_h$) at different redshifts. The presence of AGN in their central galaxies is identified using multi-wavelength catalogs, including the X-ray counterparts, the ASKAP radio catalog, and the DESI spectroscopic measurements. We apply the stacking method to obtain sufficient statistics for the X-ray surface brightness profile and the $L_X$ for groups with different central AGN properties. We find that the X-ray groups exhibit the highest $L_X$, followed by groups with QSO, radio, BPT-AGN, and non-AGN centrals. Moreover, the $L_X$ of the $M_h \lesssim 10^{13}h^{-1}M_\odot$ groups is dominated by the central AGN, while the X-ray emission from extended gas tends to be more prominent in the $M_h \gtrsim 10^{13}h^{-1}M_\odot$ groups. In groups where the AGN play a major role in X-ray emission, the contribution from extended gas is minor, resulting in significant uncertainties concerning the extended X-ray emission. When the subset containing the X-ray detected counterparts is excluded, the extended gas component becomes easier to obtain. A correlation has been identified between the X-ray luminosity of the central AGN and extended gas. However, once we account for the positional offset, their correlation becomes less prominent. Currently, the results are not conclusive enough to confirm whether there is a connection between the AGN feedback and extended gas. However, they provide a new perspective on the feedback processes in the history of group assembly.

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Mock Observations for the CSST Mission: Main Surveys -- the Mock Catalogue

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a flagship space mission, designed to carry out a large-area sky survey to explore the nature of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. The onboard multi-band imaging and slitless spectroscopic modules will enable us to obtain photometric data for billions of galaxies and stars, as well as hundreds of millions of spectroscopic measurements, advancing various scientific analyses such as galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing. To support the image simulations for the main survey of the CSST mission, we present a mock catalogue of stars and galaxies. For stars, the mock catalogue is generated using either Galaxia or TRILEGAL, both of which provide a range of stellar properties to meet the requirements of CSST image simulations. For galaxies, we built a mock light-cone up to redshift z~3.5 from the cosmological Nbody simulation and populated the mock galaxy catalogue from the dark mater haloes using a semi-analytical galaxy formation model. We then performed a full-sky ray-tracing simulation of weak gravitational lensing to obtain lensing shear at the position of each galaxy in the light-cone. To support both multi-band imaging and slitless spectroscopic simulations, we computed the spectral energy distribution (SED) for each galaxy based on its star formation history using a supervised deep-learning model and determined the magnitudes in each band using the CSST throughputs. Finally, the properties of our mock galaxies include positions, redshifts, stellar masses, shapes, sizes, SEDs, lensing shears and magnifications. We have validated our mock catalogue against observational data and theoretical models, with results showing good overall agreement. The catalogue provides a flexible dataset for the development of CSST image processing and can support a wide range of cosmological analyses within the CSST mission.

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Warped Disk Galaxies: Statistical Properties from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8

Warped structures are often observed in disk galaxies, yet their physical origin is still under investigation. We present a systematic study of warped edge-on disk galaxies based on imaging data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8, with the expectation that this large sample size, enabled by wide-area surveys, will offer new perspectives on the formation of disk warps. Using a deep learning approach, we trained an EfficientNet-B3 convolutional neural network to classify the morphology of edge-on-disk galaxies into warped and non-warped categories. Our model was trained on a curated and visually verified set of labeled galaxy images and applied to a large dataset of over 595,651 edge-on disk galaxies selected from the Galaxy Zoo DESI catalog. Our results provide the largest warp catalog to date, consisting of 23996 warped edge-on disk galaxies, and reveal statistical trends between warp occurrence and galaxy properties. Compared to their non-warped counterparts, these warped disk galaxies tend to have bluer colors, lower stellar masses, higher gas fractions and star-formation rates, smaller S\'ersic indices and larger disk sizes. In addition, warped disk galaxies show higher projected number densities of neighboring galaxies than their non-warped counterparts, particularly within \( R_{\mathrm{proj}} \lesssim 50~\mathrm{kpc} \), where the local number density is roughly twice as high.

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A Vertically Orientated Dark Matter Halo Marks a Flip of the Galactic Disk

Unveiling the 3D shape of the Milky Way's dark-matter halo is critical to understanding its formation history. We created an innovative dynamical model with minimal assumptions on the internal dynamical structures and accommodates a highly flexible triaxial DM halo. By applying the method to 6D phase-space data of K-giant stars from LAMOST + Gaia, we robustly determine the 3D dark-matter distribution of the Milky Way out to approximately $50$ kpc. We discover a triaxial, nearly oblate dark-matter halo with $q_{\rm DM} = Z/X= 0.92\pm0.08$, $p_{\rm DM} = Y/X= 0.8\pm0.2$ averagely within 50 kpc, where $Z$ axis is defined perpendicular to the stellar disk. The axes ratio $q_{\rm DM} > p_{\rm DM}$ is strongly preferred; the long-intermediate axis plane of the dark-matter halo is unexpectedly vertical to the Galactic disk, yet aligned with the `plane of satellites'. This striking configuration suggests that the Galactic disk (and the inner halo) has flipped, likely torqued by minor mergers, from an original alignment with the outer dark-matter halo and satellite plane, as supported by Milky Way analogues from Auriga and TNG50. By allowing $q_{\rm DM}(r)$ and $p_{\rm DM}(r)$ vary with radii, we find tentative evidence that the dark-matter halo is twisted, that it agrees alignment with the disk in the inner regions and transitions to a vertical orientation at $r\gtrsim 20$ kpc, supporting the disk flip scenario prediction. Such disk reorientation is non-trivial yet its physical mechanism is straightforward to comprehend and naturally originates a vertical satellite plane. Our findings offer a unified framework that links dark-matter halo orientation, satellite alignment, and disk evolution, reinforcing the internal consistency of the Milky Way in $\Lambda$CDM model.

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Unveiling the galactic baryon cycle process by an empirical model

We propose an empirical model to describe and constrain the baryon cycle process during galaxy evolution. This model utilizes the evolution of star formation rate, derived from the stellar mass-halo mass relations (SHMRs) across different redshifts, and the cold gas content, derived from the NeutralUniverseMachine model, to constrain gas accretion and recycle of gas outflow in the model galaxy. Additionally, through detailed modeling of each cycle process, particularly the recycling process, and utilizing the gas-phase mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at $z=0$ as a constraint, our model establishes a relation between the recycle fraction and halo mass. It is found that the fraction of gas recycled from the outflow is a function of halo mass, with a value of $25\%$ in galaxies with halo mass $\sim10^{10.4}M_{\rm \odot}$, increasing to $75\%$ in halos with mass $\sim 10^{12}M_{\rm \odot}$. We also find that the mass loading factor from the FIRE-2 simulation matches well with the constraints from both observational data and our model. Furthermore, using the gas content and metallicity of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) obtained from hydrodynamical simulations as constraints, our model predicts that on average $70\%$ of universal baryon accretion is accreted to the halo and $80\%$ of the non-recycled gas in the outflow has escaped from the galaxy, entering the intergalactic medium (IGM). However, we note that future observational data are needed to finally constrain the mass and metal exchange between the CGM and the IGM.

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Modeling the impacts of galaxy intrinsic alignments on weak lensing peak statistics

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) peak statistics capture cosmic non-linear structures and can provide additional cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation analyses. They have been applied to different WL surveys successfully. To further facilitate their high precision applications, it is very timely to investigate the impacts of different systematics on WL peak statistics and how to mitigate them. Concerning the influence from galaxy intrinsic alignments (IAs), in this paper, we develop a theoretical model for WL high peaks taking into account the IA effects. It is an extension of our previous halo-based model. The IA corrections mainly include the modification of the lensing profile of clusters of galaxies due to the alignments of satellite galaxies and the additional shape noise correlations. We validate our model using simulations with the semi-analytical galaxy formation. We consider the cases where the satellite galaxies are averagely radially aligned toward the centers of their host clusters but with different dispersions $\sigma_{\theta}$. We show that our model works well for $\sigma_{\theta}>45^{\circ}$. If the IA corrections are not included in the model, for the Euclid/CSST-like source galaxy distribution and the survey area of $\sim 1000 deg^2$, the IA induced bias on $S_8$ can reach $\sim 8\sigma$ even for $\sigma_{\theta}=75^{\circ}$. With our model, not only the bias can be well mitigated, but also we can constrain the satellite IA to the level of {\bf $\sigma(\sigma_{\theta})\sim \pm 24^{\circ}$} simultaneously from WL high peak analyses alone using data from such a survey.

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Introduction to the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST)

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band observation capabilities. It can simultaneously conduct precise measurements of the Universe by performing multi-color photometric imaging and slitless spectroscopic surveys. The CSST is equipped with five scientific instruments, i.e. Multi-band Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Survey Camera (SC), Multi-Channel Imager (MCI), Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS), Cool Planet Imaging Coronagraph (CPI-C), and THz Spectrometer (TS). Using these instruments, CSST is expected to make significant contributions and discoveries across various astronomical fields, including cosmology, galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN), the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, stars, exoplanets, Solar System objects, astrometry, and transients and variable sources. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the CSST instruments, observational capabilities, data products, and scientific potential.

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Observed Anti-parallel Correlation Between Spiral Galaxy and Cosmic Filament Spins

Understanding the origin of galactic angular momentum and its connection to the cosmic web remains a pivotal issue in galaxy formation. Using kinematic data from the MaNGA survey, we investigate the alignment between the spin directions of spiral galaxies and their host cosmic filaments. By incorporating filament spin measurements derived from redshift asymmetry across filament spines, we reveal a mass-dependent anti-parallel correlation: low-mass spiral galaxies ($\log_{10}(M_*/M_\odot) \lesssim 10$) exhibit a statistically significant anti-parallel alignment between their stellar/gas spins and filament spins, while high-mass spirals show no such trend. Spatial analysis further indicates that high-mass spirals preferentially reside near filament spines, whereas low-mass spirals occupy filament outskirts. These findings extend previous alignment studies that neglected directional spin correlations and provide new insights into how cosmic environments shape galactic angular momentum. The observed anti-parallel trend suggests a critical role for filament spin in regulating the angular momentum acquisition of low-mass spirals. This anti-parallel alignment is significantly enhanced for low-mass spirals residing in dynamically cold filaments, highlighting the importance of filament properties in shaping galaxy spin.

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ViT-based Local Volume dwarf galaxy Identificationin (VIDA) in the CSST survey

Identifying dwarf galaxies within the Local Volume is crucial for constraining the luminosity function of satellite galaxies in the nearby universe. We report the detection capabilities of dwarf galaxies within the Local Volume using the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). Based on the simulated imaging data of CSST, we develop a detection and classification pipeline that combines traditional image-based search techniques with advanced machine learning classification models. The simulated Local Volume dwarf galaxies can be identified using a pre-processing method for "extended source detection", followed by classification with a pretrained ViT-Base model. This pipeline achieves a true positive rate (TPR) exceeding 85% with a false positive rate (FPR) of only 0.1%. We quantify the detection completeness of Local Volume dwarf galaxies across a three-dimensional parameter space defined by absolute magnitude ($M_V$), half-light radius ($R_h$), and heliocentric distance, based on simulated single-exposure CSST wide-field imaging survey data. For unresolved or semi-resolved dwarf galaxies, our method achieves a significantly deeper absolute magnitude detection limit compared to catalog-based approaches, reaching $M_V = -7$ within 10 \Mpc. By combining this image-based approach with traditional stellar catalog-based "matched filter" techniques, our automated framework established in this work can identify dwarf galaxies within 20 \Mpc for the CSST mission.

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