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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 measure weak lensing mass profiles of voids from a volume-limited sample of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). We find voids using an algorithm designed to maximize the lensing signal by dividing the survey volume into 2D slices, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-12 Joseph Clampitt , Bhuvnesh Jain

The aim of this study is to distinguish genuine cosmic voids, found in a galaxy catalog by the void finder ZOBOV-VIDE, from under-dense regions in a Poisson distribution of objects. For this purpose, we perform two multivariate analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-14 M. -C Cousinou , A. Pisani , A. Tilquin , N. Hamaus , A. -J Hawken , S. Escoffier

Cosmic void has been proven to be an effective cosmological probe of the large-scale structure (LSS). However, since voids are usually identified in spectroscopic galaxy surveys, they are generally limited to low number density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Yingxiao Song , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

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…

An analysis of voids using cosmological N-body simulations of cold dark matter models is presented. It employs a robust statistics of voids, that was recently applied to discriminate between data from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Arbabi-Bidgoli , V. Mueller

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 investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy population properties in a complete volume-limited sample of 91566 galaxies in the redshift range 0.05 <= z <= 0.095 and with M_r <= -20.0, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sorrentino , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Rifatto

We present VIDE, the Void IDentification and Examination toolkit, an open-source Python/C++ code for finding cosmic voids in galaxy redshift surveys and N-body simulations, characterizing their properties, and providing a platform for more…

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 present a public catalogue of voids in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy surveys. This catalogue contains information on the location, sizes, densities, shapes and bounding surfaces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Seshadri Nadathur

We investigate the structural, photometric, and dynamical evolution of cosmic voids and their galaxy populations from $z=2.09$ to the present, focusing on void size as a key evolutionary parameter. Using void catalogs from four Millennium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Saeed Tavasoli

Cosmic voids are a promising environment to characterize neutrino-induced effects on the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe. We perform a comprehensive numerical study of the statistical properties of voids, identified both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Elena Massara , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , P. M. Sutter

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

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

One of the most striking features in galaxy redshift surveys is the ubiquitous presence of voids. However, voids have not been extensively studied due to observational limitations. Until recently, galaxy redshift surveys included only a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fiona Hoyle , Michael S Vogeley

We present a detailed description of our void finding algorithm which is an extension of the prescription by Hoyle and Vogeley (2002). We include a discussion of the reproducibility and robustness of the algorithm as well as the statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Caroline Foster , Lorne A. Nelson

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

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