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The large-scale structure of the Universe is a rich source of information to test the consistency of General Relativity on cosmological scales. We briefly describe how the observed distributions of galaxies is affected by redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Daniel Sobral-Blanco

The expansion of the universe causes spacetime curvature, distinguishing between distances measured along and transverse to the line of sight. The ratio of these distances, e.g. the cosmic shear distortion of a sphere defined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric V. Linder

We report on the first application of the Alcock-Paczynski test to stacked voids in spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys.We use voids from the Sutter et al. (2012) void catalog, which was derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , David H. Weinberg

We examine the cosmological redshift-space distortion effect on the power spectrum of the objects at high-redshifts, which is an unavoidable observational contamination in general relativistic cosmology. In particular, we consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiromitsu Magira , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

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

One of the main problems of observational cosmology is to determine the range in which a reliable measurement of galaxy correlations is possible. This corresponds to determine the shape of the correlation function, its possible evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-18 Francesco Sylos Labini , Daniil Tekhanovich , Yurij V. Baryshev

We provide an accurate forecast of the expected constraining power from the main void statistics -- the void size function and the void-galaxy cross-correlation function -- to be measured by the Roman reference High Latitude Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Giovanni Verza , Giulia Degni , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus , Elena Massara , Andrew Benson , Stéphanie Escoffier , Yun Wang , Zhongxu Zhai , Olivier Doré

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method utilizes the redshift evolution of the AP distortion to place constraints on cosmological parameters. It has proved to be a robust method that can separate the AP signature from the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiaolin Luo , Ziyong Wu , Xiao-Dong Li , Miao Li , Zhigang Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu

Cosmic voids are the largest and most underdense structures in the Universe. Their properties have been shown to encode precious information about the laws and constituents of the Universe. We show that machine learning techniques can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Bonny Y. Wang , Alice Pisani , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We propose a methodology to measure the cosmological spatial curvature by employing the deviation from statistical isotropy due to the Alcock-Paczy\'nski effect of large scale galaxy clustering. This approach has a higher degree of model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Luca Amendola , Marco Marinucci , Miguel Quartin

Modifications to General Relativity (GR) often incorporate screening mechanisms in order to remain compatible with existing tests of gravity. The screening is less efficient in underdense regions, which suggests that cosmic voids can be a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

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

We utilize the Magneticum suite of hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the formation and evolution of cosmic voids from $z = 5.04$ to present day, using cold dark matter and (sub-) halo tracers in high-density samples. This includes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Nico Schuster , Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Klaus Dolag , Jochen Weller

We develop a methodology to use the redshift dependence of the galaxy 2-point correlation function (2pCF) across the line-of-sight, $\xi(r_{\bot})$, as a probe of cosmological parameters. The positions of galaxies in comoving Cartesian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Hyunbae Park , Cheng Cheng , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

The formation of large voids in the Cosmic Web from the initial adiabatic cosmological perturbations of space-time metric, density and velocity of matter is investigated in cosmological model with the dynamical dark energy accelerating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 B. Novosyadlyj , M. Tsizh

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 \Lambda CDM cosmology. We analyze simulations designed to mimic the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter

We perform a comprehensive redshift-space distortion analysis based on cosmic voids in the large-scale distribution of galaxies observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. To this end, we measure multipoles of the void-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Nico Hamaus , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Alice Pisani , Marie Aubert , Stéphanie Escoffier , Jochen Weller

We suggest to use the observationally measured and theoretically justified correlation between size and rotational velocity of galactic discs as a viable method to select a set of high redshift standard rods which may be used to explore the…

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

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test is a robust large-scale structure (LSS) measurement that receives little contamination from the redshift space distortion (RSD). It has placed tight cosmological constraints by using small and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Dong Li , Haitao Miao , Xin Wang , Xue Zhang , Feng Fang , Xiaolin Luo , Qing-Guo Huang , Miao Li