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We study the formation and evolution of voids in the dark matter distribution using various simulations of the popular $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. We identify voids by requiring them to be regions of space with a mean overdensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg M. Colberg , Ravi K. Sheth , Antonaldo Diaferio , Liang Gao , Naoki Yoshida

The properties of large underdensities in the distribution of galaxies in the Universe, known as cosmic voids, are potentially sensitive probes of fundamental physics. We use data from the MultiDark suite of N-body simulations and multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-24 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss , Robert Crittenden

Understanding the internal structure and spatial distribution of cosmic voids is crucial when considering them as probes of cosmology. We present recent advances in modeling void density- and velocity-profiles in real space, as well as void…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-29 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Cosmic voids offer an extraordinary opportunity to study the effects of massive neutrinos on cosmological scales. Because they are freely streaming, neutrinos can penetrate the interior of voids more easily than cold dark matter or baryons,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 Nico Schuster , Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Carmelita Carbone , Christina D. Kreisch , Giorgia Pollina , Jochen Weller

Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational effects and cosmic expansion, and ability to span…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sofia Contarini , Giovanni Verza , Alice Pisani

Cosmic voids are biased tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe. Separate universe simulations (SUS) enable accurate measurements of this biasing relation by implementing the peak-background split (PBS). In this work, we apply…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Kwan Chuen Chan , Yin Li , Matteo Biagetti , Nico Hamaus

Cosmic voids are becoming key players in testing the physics of our Universe. Here we concentrate on the abundances and the dynamics of voids as these are among the best candidates to provide information on cosmological parameters. Cai,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Nelson Padilla , Dante Paz , Marcelo Lares , Laura Ceccarelli , Diego Garcia Lambas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Baojiu Li

The sizes and shapes of voids in a galaxy survey depend not only on the physics of structure formation, but also on the sampling density of the survey and on the algorithm used to define voids. Using an N-body simulation with a CDM power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason D. Schmidt , Barbara S. Ryden , Adrian L. Melott

Cosmic voids are an important probe of large-scale structure that can constrain cosmological parameters and test cosmological models. We present a new paradigm for void studies: void detection in weak lensing convergence maps. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Galaxy bias, the unknown relationship between the clustering of galaxies and the underlying dark matter density field is a major hurdle for cosmological inference from large-scale structure. While traditional analyses focus on the absolute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Nico Hamaus , Benjamin D. Wandelt , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Michael S. Warren

Cosmic voids are progressively emerging as a new viable cosmological probe. Their abundance and density profiles are sensitive to modifications of gravity, as well as to dark energy and neutrinos. The main goal of this work is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi

We extract void catalogs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 (SDSS DR16) survey and also from the Millennium simulation. We focus our comparison on distribution of galaxies brighter than $M_r < -18$ inside voids and study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Saeed Tavasoli

Taking N-body simulations with volumes and particle densities tuned to match the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic main sample, we assess the ability of current void catalogs (e.g., Sutter et al. 2012b) to distinguish a model of coupled dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. M. Sutter , Edoardo Carlesi , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Alexander Knebe

We investigate the properties of voids and void galaxies in the \texttt{TNG300} simulation. Using a luminous galaxy catalog and a spherical void finding algorithm, we identify 5,078 voids at redshift $z = 0$. Within the voids, mass does not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-05 Olivia Curtis , Bryanne McDonough , Tereasa G. Brainerd

We discuss the universality and self-similarity of void density profiles, for voids in realistic mock luminous red galaxy (LRG) catalogues from the Jubilee simulation, as well as in void catalogues constructed from the SDSS LRG and Main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 S. Nadathur , S. Hotchkiss , J. M. Diego , I. T. Iliev , S. Gottlöber , W. A. Watson , G. Yepes

In this work we analyse the properties of cosmic voids in standard and coupled dark energy cosmologies. Using large numerical simulations, we investigate the effects produced by the dark energy coupling on three statistics: the filling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Giorgia Pollina , Marco Baldi , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini

An essential aspect of cosmic voids is that these underdense regions provide complementary information about the properties of our Universe. Unlike dense regions, voids are avoided by matter and are less contaminated by baryonic processes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Md Rasel Hossen , Sonia Akter Ema , Krzysztof Bolejko , Geraint F. Lewis

We present radial density profiles, as traced by luminous galaxies and dark matter particles, for voids in eleven snapshots of the \texttt{TNG300} simulation. The snapshots span 11.65~Gyr of cosmic time, corresponding to the redshift range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Olivia Curtis , Bryanne McDonough , Tereasa Brainerd

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

Cosmic voids, the largest underdense regions in the Universe, provide unique laboratories for studying galaxy formation and constitute powerful probes of cosmology. Recent work has shown that individual galaxy bias (b_i), which quantifies…