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We give an outline of an algorithm designed to reconstruct the background cosmological metric within the class of spherically symmetric dust universes that may include a cosmological constant. Luminosity and age data are used to derive…

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We present a simple empirical function for the average density profile of cosmic voids, identified via the watershed technique in $\Lambda$CDM N-body simulations. This function is universal across void size and redshift, accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Peculiar velocities, obtained from direct distance measurements, are data of choice to achieve constrained simulations of the Local Universe reliable down to a scale of a few Megaparsecs. Unlike redshift surveys, peculiar velocities are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jenny G. Sorce , Helene M. Courtois , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully

For dynamical dark energy cosmologies we carry out a series of N-body gravitational simulations, achieving percent level accuracy in the relative mass power spectra at any redshift. Such accuracy in the power spectrum is necessary for next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Matthew J. Francis , Geraint F. Lewis , Eric V. Linder

We present a new algorithm that can reconstruct the full distributions of metric components within the class of spherically symmetric dust universes that may include a cosmological constant. The algorithm is capable of confronting this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Hertzog L. Bester , Julien Larena , Nigel T. Bishop

We use properties of void populations identified in N-body simulations to forecast the ability of upcoming galaxy surveys to differentiate models of f(R) gravity from \Lambda CDM cosmology. We analyze simulations designed to mimic the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter

We review the field of collisionless numerical simulations for the large-scale structure of the Universe. We start by providing the main set of equations solved by these simulations and their connection with General Relativity. We then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn

A promising method for measuring the cosmological parameter combination fsigma_8 is to compare observed peculiar velocities with peculiar velocities predicted from a galaxy density field using perturbation theory. We use N-body simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson

We present a new formulation of Lagrangian perturbation theory which allows accurate predictions of the real- and redshift-space correlation functions of the mass field and dark matter halos. Our formulation involves a non-perturbative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jordan Carlson , Beth Reid , Martin White

Since cosmic shear was first observed in 2000, it has become a key cosmological probe and promises to deliver exquisite dark energy constraints. However, shear is inferred from coherent distortions of galaxy shapes, and the relation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Enya Van den Abeele , Pierre Astier , Anna Niemiec

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

This is the second part of a thorough investigation of the redshift-space effects that affect void properties and the impact they have on cosmological tests. Here, we focus on the void-galaxy cross-correlation function, specifically, on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Carlos M. Correa , Dante J. Paz , Nelson D. Padilla , Ariel G. Sánchez , Andrés N. Ruiz , Raúl E. Angulo

We propose a new method to recover the cosmological initial conditions of the presently observed galaxy distribution, which can serve to run constrained simulations of the Local Universe. Our method, the Reverse Zeldovich Approximation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Timur Doumler , Yehuda Hoffman , Helene Courtois , Stefan Gottloeber

Exact cosmological models for a scalar field in Lyra geometry are studied in the presence of a time-varying effective cosmological term originated from the specific interaction of an auxiliary $\Lambda$ - term with the displacement vector.…

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In this work we present a brief discussion about modified and extended cosmological models using current observational tests. We show that according to these astrophysical samples based in late universe measurements, theories like $f(R)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-25 Celia Escamilla-Rivera

We present a systematic analysis of the statistical properties of cosmic voids using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) and subhaloes from the ELUCID constrained simulation. By comparing voids identified in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

We introduce an emulator-based method to model the cross-correlation between cosmological voids and galaxies. This allows us to model the effect of cosmology on void finding and on the shape of the void-galaxy cross-correlation function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Tristan S. Fraser , Enrique Paillas , Will J. Percival , Seshadri Nadathur , Slađana Radinović , Hans A. Winther

We use simulations of the formation and evolution of the galaxy population in the Local Universe to address the issue of whether the standard theoretical model succeeds in producing empty regions as large and as dark as the observed nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mathis , S. D. M. White

We identify voids as maximal non-overlapping spheres within the haloes of the Uchuu simulation and three smaller halo simulation boxes with smaller volume and different $\sigma_{8}$ values, and galaxies with redshift in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Elena Fernández-García , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin