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Cosmic voids, the underdense regions of the Large Scale Structure (LSS), provide cosmological information highly complementary to that obtained from overdense regions. In this work, we investigate the constraining power of the void-shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Wenshuo Xu , Cheng Zhao , Chen Su , Huanyuan Shan , Yu Liu

Massive neutrinos and $f(R)$ modified gravity have degenerate observational signatures that can impact the interpretation of results in galaxy survey experiments, such as cosmological parameter estimations and gravity model tests. Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Renate Mauland , Øystein Elgarøy , David Fonseca Mota , Hans Arnold Winther

Voids are dominant features of the cosmic web. We revisit the cosmological information content of voids and connect void properties with the parameters of the background universe. We combine analytical results with a suite of large n-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Benjamin C. Bromley , Margaret J. Geller

In this review we discuss several aspects of Cosmic Voids. Voids are a major component of the large scale distribution of matter and galaxies in the Universe. They are of instrumental importance for understanding the emergence of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rien van de Weygaert , Erwin Platen

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

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

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

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

We study evolution of voids in cosmological simulations using a new method for tracing voids over cosmic time. The method is based on tracking watershed basins (contiguous regions around density minima) of well developed voids at low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Radosław Wojtak , Devon Powell , Tom Abel

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

Recent works have shown that the properties of galaxy populations in dark matter halos vary with large-scale environments. These results suggest a variation in the halo occupation distribution (HOD) in extreme density environments. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Ignacio G. Alfaro , Facundo Rodriguez , Andrés N. Ruiz , Heliana E. Luparello , Diego Garcia Lambas

We explore the effects of massive neutrinos on the cosmic web using the FLAMINGO simulations. We classify the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters, and find that massive neutrinos affect the environment by decreasing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Leonor N. L. Simões , Krishna Naidoo , Benjamin Joachimi , Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk

We present a comparison of void properties between the standard model of cosmology, $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM), and two alternative cosmological models with evolving and interacting dark sectors: a quintessence model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Eromanga Adermann , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

Cosmic voids are underdense regions within the large-scale structure of the Universe, spanning a wide range of physical scales - from a few megaparsecs (Mpc) to the largest observable structures. Their distinctive properties make them…

Using a mapping from dark matter halos to galaxy properties based on hydrodynamical simulations, we explore the impact of galaxy properties on the void size function and the void-galaxy correlation function. We replicate the properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-01 Rushy R. Panchal , Alice Pisani , David N. Spergel

We present an analytic model for the sizes of voids in the galaxy distribution. Peebles and others have recently emphasized the possibility that the observed characteristics of voids may point to a problem in galaxy formation models, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven Furlanetto , Tsvi Piran

The large-scale distribution of cold dark matter halos is generally assumed to trace the large-scale distribution of matter. In a universe with multiple types of matter fluctuations, as is the case with massive neutrinos, the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Marilena LoVerde

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

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the Universe, are impacted by dark energy and massive neutrinos. In this work, relying on the DEMNUni suite of cosmological simulations, we explore the void size function in cosmologies with both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Giovanni Verza , Carmelita Carbone , Alice Pisani , Alessandro Renzi

We measure the distribution of matter contained within the emptiest regions of the Universe: cosmic voids. We use the large overlap between the Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) and voids identified in the LOWZ and…