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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

The stacked density profile of cosmic voids in the galaxy distribution provides an important tool for the use of voids for precision cosmology. We study the density profiles of voids identified using the ZOBOV watershed transform algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Nadathur , S. Hotchkiss , J. M. Diego , I. T. Iliev , S. Gottlöber , W. A. Watson , G. Yepes

The halo occupation distribution is a cornerstone in understanding galaxy formation within the large-scale structure.On the other hand, in the context of the large-scale structure of the Universe, voids are regions with singular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Ignacio G. Alfaro , Facundo Rodriguez , Andrés N. Ruiz

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

In this work we investigate the effects of the environment on the evolution of void galaxies. In particular, we study their morphology and explore its dependence with their location within the void where the galaxies reside, as well as with…

Aims: We assess the sensitivity of void shapes to the nature of dark energy that was pointed out in recent studies. We investigate whether or not void shapes are useable as an observational probe in galaxy redshift surveys. We focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-10 E. G. Patrick Bos , Rien van de Weygaert , Klaus Dolag , Valeria Pettorino

The statistical study of voids in the matter distribution promises to be an important tool for precision cosmology, but there are known discrepancies between theoretical models of voids and the voids actually found in large simulations or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

We investigate the time evolution of bias of cosmic density fields. We perform numerical simulations of the evolution of the cosmic web for the conventional $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model. The simulations cover a wide range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , M. Einasto

Cosmic voids are becoming key players in testing the physics of our Universe. Here we concentrate on the abundances and the dynamics of voids as these are among the best candidates to provide information on cosmological parameters. Cai,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Nelson Padilla , Dante Paz , Marcelo Lares , Laura Ceccarelli , Diego Garcia Lambas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Baojiu Li

Cosmic voids are promising cosmological laboratories for studying the dark energy phenomenon and alternative gravity theories. They are receiving special attention nowadays in view of the new generation of galaxy spectroscopic surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Carlos Mauricio Correa

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

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

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 present a new method of finding cosmic voids using tomographic maps of Ly{\alpha} forest flux. We identify cosmological voids with radii of 2 - 12 $h^{-1}$Mpc in a large N-body simulation at $z = 2.5$, and characterize the signal of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Casey W. Stark , Andreu Font-Ribera , Martin White , Khee-Gan Lee

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

Eulerian cosmological codes are especially suited to properly describe the low density regions. This property makes this class of codes excellent tools to study the formation and evolution of cosmic voids. Following such ideas, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Ricciardelli , V. Quilis , S. Planelles

Cosmic voids are low-mass-density regions on intergalactic scales. They are where cosmic expansion and acceleration are most dominant, important places to understand and analyze for cosmology. This entry summarises theoretical underpinnings…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yan-Chuan Cai , Mark Neyrinck

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 use the Magneticum suite of state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations to identify cosmic voids based on the watershed technique and investigate their most fundamental properties across different resolutions in mass and scale. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Nico Schuster , Nico Hamaus , Klaus Dolag , Jochen Weller

An essential aspect of cosmic voids is that these underdense regions provide complementary information about the properties of our Universe. Unlike dense regions, voids are avoided by matter and are less contaminated by baryonic processes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Md Rasel Hossen , Sonia Akter Ema , Krzysztof Bolejko , Geraint F. Lewis