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Cosmic voids provide a powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe because their dynamics can remain near-linear to the present day. As a result they have the potential to connect large scale structure at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

We perform a statistical study focused on void environments. We examine galaxy density profiles around voids in the SDSS, finding a correlation between void--centric distance to the shell of maximum density and void radius when a maximum in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Ceccarelli , D. Paz , M. Lares , N. Padilla , D. García Lambas

Our goal is to see how density waves of different scale combine to form voids between galaxy systems of various scale. We perform numerical simulations of structure formation in cubes of size 100 and 256 Mpc/h, with resolutions 256^3 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 J. Einasto , I. Suhhonenko , G. Hütsi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

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

We use the universal mass accretion history recently reported for simulations of halo formation in the cold dark matter model (CDM) to analyze the formation and growth of a single halo. We derive the time-dependent density profile three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

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

Cosmic voids are the major volume component in the matter distribution of the Universe. They posses great potential for constraining dark energy as well as for testing theories of gravity. Nevertheless, in spite of their growing popularity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Tommaso Ronconi , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini

We apply and extend standard tools for void statistics to cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations with numerical relativity (NR). We obtain a simulated void catalogue without Newtonian approximations, using a new watershed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Michael J. Williams , Hayley J. Macpherson , David L. Wiltshire , Chris Stevens

Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Lehman , Nico Schuster , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Nico Hamaus , Christopher T. Davies , Klaus Dolag

Cosmic voids are effective cosmological probes to discriminate among competing world models. Their identification is generally based on density or geometry criteria that, because of their very nature, are prone to shot noise. We propose two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrii Elyiv , Federico Marulli , Giorgia Pollina , Marco Baldi , Enzo Branchini , Andrea Cimatti , Lauro Moscardini

Context. Cosmic voids are vast underdense regions in the cosmic web that encode crucial information about structure formation, the composition of the Universe, and its expansion history. Due to their lower density, these regions are less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 M. D. Lepinzan , C. T. Davies , T. Castro , N. Schuster , J. Mohr , P. Monaco

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

We present a new void search algorithm for automated detection of voids in three-dimensional redshift surveys. Based on a model in which the main features of the LSS of the Universe are voids and walls, we classify the galaxies into wall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hagai El-Ad , Tsvi Piran , Luiz Nicolaci da Costa

We study how the properties of cosmic voids depend on those of the tracer galaxy populations in which they are identified. We use a suite of halo occupation distribution (HOD) mocks in a simulation, identify voids in these populations using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

Voids have emerged as a novel probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. These regions of extreme underdensity are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology, and can potentially be used as a testing ground to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

Starting from the geometrical concept of a 4-dimensional de-Sitter configuration of spheres in Euclidean 3-space and modelling voids in the Universe as spheres, we show that a uniform distribution over this configuration space implies a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gary W. Gibbons , Marcus C. Werner , Naoki Yoshida , Sunmyon Chon

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

We study statistical properties of voids in the distribution of mass, dark-matter haloes and galaxies (B_J<-16) in a LCDM numerical simulation populated with galaxies using a semi-analytic galaxy formation model(GALFORM, Cole et al. 2000).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. D. Padilla , L. Ceccarelli , D. G. Lambas

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 \lcdm~cosmology. We analyze multiple simulation realizations, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Baojiu Li , Tsz Yan Lam