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We apply the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test to the stacked voids identified using the large-scale structure galaxy catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This galaxy catalog is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

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

We propose a method based on the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test to measure the expansion history of the Universe. It uses the isotropy of the galaxy density gradient field to constrain cosmological parameters. If the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Juhan Kim

We present a non-parametric, model-independent method to reconstruct the spherical density profiles of void stacks in real space, without redshift-space distortions. Our method uses the expected spherical symmetry of stacked voids to build…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Alice Pisani , Guilhem Lavaux , Paul M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The velocity profile of galaxies around voids is a key ingredient for redshift space distortion (RSD) measurements made using the void-galaxy correlation function. In this paper we use simulations to test whether the velocity profile of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Elena Massara , Will J. Percival , Neal Dalal , Seshadri Nadathur , Slađana Radinović , Hans A. Winther , Alex Woodfinden

The void power spectrum is related to the clustering of low-density regions in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and can be used as an effective cosmological probe to extract the information of the LSS. We generate the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

There is now strong evidence that the main contribution to the cosmic energy density is not due to matter, but to another component with negative pressure. Its nature is still unknown: it could be the vacuum energy, manifesting itself as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Cappi

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…

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

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

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

CONTEXT: Cosmic voids are observed in the distribution of galaxies and, to some extent, in the dark matter distribution. If these distributions have fractal geometry, it must be reflected in the geometry of voids; in particular, we expect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 Jose Gaite

Cosmic voids refer to the large empty regions in the universe with a very low number density of galaxies. Voids are likely to be severely disturbed by the tidal effect from the surrounding dark matter. We derive a completely analytic model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daeseong Park , Jounghun Lee

We stack maps of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect produced by the Planck Collaboration around the centers of cosmic voids defined by the distribution of galaxies in the CMASS sample of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 David Alonso , J. Colin Hill , Renée Hložek , David N. Spergel

We identify voids as maximal non-overlapping spheres within the haloes of the Uchuu simulation and three smaller halo simulation boxes with smaller volume and different $\sigma_{8}$ values, and galaxies with redshift in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Elena Fernández-García , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin

It has been proposed that the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ might be measured from geometric effects on large-scale structure. A positive vacuum density leads to correlation-function contours which are squashed in the radial direction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. E. Ballinger , J. A. Peacock , A. F. Heavens

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 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 have emerged as powerful probes for cosmology, providing complementary information on the large-scale structure of the universe. We present the first application of a hydrodynamical framework to model the evolution of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Tommaso Moretti , Giovanni Verza , Noemi Frusciante , Francesco Pace

We investigate the properties of one--dimensional flux ``voids'' (connected regions in the flux distribution above the mean flux level) by comparing hydrodynamical simulations of large cosmological volumes with a set of observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matteo Viel , Joerg M. Colberg , Tae-Sun Kim