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Galaxies in the most underdense regions of the Universe, known as cosmic voids, exhibit astrophysical properties that suggest a distinct evolutionary path compared to galaxies in denser environments. Numerical simulations indicate that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Dante J. Paz , Damián Mast , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Andrés N. Ruiz

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 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

We present a statistical analysis of different astrophysical properties of a sample of galaxy pairs in cosmic voids. The sample consists of 72 galaxy pairs with projected separations and relative radial velocities rp<100 h$^{-1}$kpc,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Maria Laura Ceccarelli , Sol Alonso , Diego Garcia Lambas

Cosmic voids, the largest under-dense structures in the Universe, are crucial for exploring galaxy evolution. These vast, sparsely populated regions are home to void galaxies -- predominantly gas-rich, star-forming, and blue -- that evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Mohammad Reza Shojaei , Saeed Tavasoli , Parsa Ghafour

We perform a comparison of the properties of galaxies in compact groups, loose groups and in the field to deepen our understanding of the physical mechanisms acting upon galaxy evolution in different environments. We select samples of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Valeria Coenda , Hernan Muriel , Hector J. Martinez

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

To study the impact of sparsity and galaxy bias on void statistics, we use a single large-volume, high-resolution N-body simulation to compare voids in multiple levels of subsampled dark matter, halo populations, and mock galaxies from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Nico Hamaus , Benjamin D. Wandelt , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Warren

The current Lambda CDM cosmological model predicts that galaxy evolution proceeds more slowly in lower density environments, suggesting that voids are a prime location to search for relatively pristine galaxies that are representative of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 K. Kreckel , K. Croxall , B. Groves , R. van de Weygaert , R. W. Pogge

Evidence shows properties of dark matter haloes may vary with large-scale environment. By studying the halo occupation distribution in cosmic voids it is possible to obtain useful information that can shed light on the subject. The history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ignacio. G. Alfaro , Facundo Rodriguez , Andrés N. Ruiz , Diego Garcia Lambas

Using the method of searching for arbitrary shaped voids in the distribution of volume-limited samples of galaxies from the DR5 SDSS survey, we have identified voids and investigated their characteristics and the change in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anton V. Tikhonov

Explaining the formation and evolution of galaxies is one of the most challenging problems in observational cosmology. Many observations suggest that galaxies we see today could have evolved from the merging of smaller subsystems. Evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Deepak Jain , N. Panchapakesan , S. Mahajan , V. B. Bhatia

Void regions of the Universe offer a special environment for studying cosmology and galaxy formation, which may expose weaknesses in our understanding of these phenomena. Although galaxies in voids are observed to be predominately gas rich,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Darren J. Croton , Glennys R. Farrar

Due to significant galaxy contamination and impurity in stellar mass selected samples (up to 95% from z=0-3), we examine the star formation history, quenching time-scales, and structural evolution of galaxies using a constant number density…

We assess the morphology-density relation, H-alpha linewidth-density relation, and the effects of nearby companions for 300 galaxies selected from low-density environments of the Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey. Both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Grogin , M. J. Geller

We study the optical properties of a large sample of galaxies in low-density regions of the nearby universe. We make a 5/h Mpc-smoothed map of the galaxy density throughout the Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey (CfA2) to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Grogin , M. J. Geller

We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to measure the dependence of the bJ-band galaxy luminosity function on large-scale environment, defined by density contrast in spheres of radius 8h-1Mpc, and on spectral type, determined from principal…

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

We investigate the distribution of normal (faint) galaxies and blue compact galaxies (BCGs) in voids by analyzing their distribution as a function of distance from the void centers and by employing nearest neighbour statistics between…