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We present a new method of finding cosmic voids using tomographic maps of Ly{\alpha} forest flux. We identify cosmological voids with radii of 2 - 12 $h^{-1}$Mpc in a large N-body simulation at $z = 2.5$, and characterize the signal of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Casey W. Stark , Andreu Font-Ribera , Martin White , Khee-Gan Lee

Alignments of galaxy clusters (the Binggeli effect), as well as of galaxies themselves have long been studied both observationally and theoretically. Here we test the influence of large-scales structures and tidal fields on the shapes and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Altay , J. M. Colberg , R. A. C. Croft

We present a statistical analysis of voids in the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). In order to detect the voids, we have developed two robust algorithms. We define voids as non-overlapping maximal spheres empty of halos or galaxies with…

Using the high resolution cosmological N-body simulation MareNostrum Universe we study the orientation of shape and angular momentum of galaxy-size dark matter haloes around large voids. We find that haloes located on the shells of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Cuesta , J. E. Betancort-Rijo , S. Gottloeber , S. G. Patiri , G. Yepes , F. Prada

We explore fundamental properties of the distribution of low mass dark matter halos within the cosmic web using warm dark matter (WDM) and cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological simulations. Using self abundance-matched mock galaxy catalogs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-16 Darren S. Reed , Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Doug Potter , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

Modelling cosmic voids as spheres in Euclidean space, the notion of a de-Sitter configuration space is introduced. It is shown that a uniform distribution over this configuration space yields a power-law approximating the void size…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-02 M. C. Werner

Cosmic voids as typical under-density regions in the large scale Universe are known for their hyperbolic properties as an ability to deviate the photon beams. The under-density then is acting as the negative curvature in the hyperbolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 M. Samsonyan , A. A. Kocharyan , A. Stepanian , V. G. Gurzadyan

The well-developed separate universe technique enables accurate calibration of the response of any observable to an isotropic long-wavelength density fluctuation. The large-scale environment also hosts tidal modes that perturb all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Yin Li , Teppei Okumura

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

The cosmic web structure is studied with the concepts and methods of fractal geometry, employing the adhesion model of cosmological dynamics as a basic reference. The structures of matter clusters and cosmic voids in cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Jose Gaite

Galaxies are not distributed randomly in the cosmic web but are instead arranged in filaments and sheets surrounding cosmic voids. Observationally there is still no convincing evidence of a link between the properties of galaxies and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Tempel , R. S. Stoica , E. Saar

We investigate the time evolution of bias of cosmic density fields. We perform numerical simulations of the evolution of the cosmic web for the conventional $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model. The simulations cover a wide range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , M. Einasto

We perform a comprehensive redshift-space distortion analysis based on cosmic voids in the large-scale distribution of galaxies observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. To this end, we measure multipoles of the void-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Nico Hamaus , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Alice Pisani , Marie Aubert , Stéphanie Escoffier , Jochen Weller

The Universe is mostly composed of large and relatively empty domains known as cosmic voids, whereas its matter content is predominantly distributed along their boundaries. The remaining material inside them, either dark or luminous matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Paul M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Stéphanie Escoffier , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jochen Weller

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

We present the results of our analysis of the geometrical tidal tail characteristics for nearby and distant interacting galaxies. The sample includes more than two hundred nearby galaxies and about seven hundred distant ones. The distant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. H. Mohamed , V. P. Reshetnikov , N. Ya. Sotnikova

(Abridged) We investigate the power of void statistics to constrain galaxy bias and the amplitude of dark matter fluctuations. We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to describe the relation between galaxies and dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Warren

Using cosmological $N$-body simulations and the void probability function (VPF), we investigate the statistical properties of voids within a wide range of initially Gaussian models for the origin of large-scale structure. We pay particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Blane Little , David H. Weinberg

Following up on previous studies, we here complete a full analysis of the void size distributions of the Cosmic Void Catalog (CVC) based on three different simulation and mock catalogs; dark matter, haloes and galaxies. Based on this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Esra Russell , Jean-Renaud Pycke