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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 investigate the potential of using cosmic voids as a probe to constrain cosmological parameters through the gravitational lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and make predictions for the next generation surveys. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Teeraparb Chantavat , Utane Sawangwit , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Large cosmological datasets have been probing the properties of our universe and constraining the parameters of dark matter and dark energy with increasing precision. Deep learning techniques have shown potential to be smarter, and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Zoltán Haiman

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

While cosmic voids are now recognized as a valuable cosmological probe, identifying them in a galaxy catalog is challenging for multiple reasons: observational effects such as holes in the mask or magnitude selection hinder the detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rosa Malandrino , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Stuart McAlpine , Jens Jasche

We present a novel approach for estimating cosmological parameters, $\Omega_m$, $\sigma_8$, $w_0$, and one derived parameter, $S_8$, from 3D lightcone data of dark matter halos in redshift space covering a sky area of $40^\circ \times…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Se Yeon Hwang , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Inkyu Park , Sungwook E. Hong

Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Lehman , Nico Schuster , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Nico Hamaus , Christopher T. Davies , Klaus Dolag

Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann

Cosmic voids are key elements in our understanding of the large-scale structure of the Universe. They are crucial to constrain cosmological parameters, understand the structure formation and evolution of our Universe, and they could also be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

Cosmic voids are an important probe of large-scale structure that can constrain cosmological parameters and test cosmological models. We present a new paradigm for void studies: void detection in weak lensing convergence maps. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Cosmological simulations like CAMELS and IllustrisTNG characterize hundreds of thousands of galaxies using various internal properties. Previous studies have demonstrated that machine learning can be used to infer the cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Amanda Lue , Shy Genel , Marc Huertas-Company , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matthew Ho

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

We present the first cosmological constraints derived from the analysis of the void size function. This work relies on the final BOSS DR12 data set, a large spectroscopic galaxy catalog, ideal for the identification of cosmic voids. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Sofia Contarini , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Marco Baldi

The large under-dense regions in the cosmological matter density field, known as cosmic voids, are powerful probes of cosmology but their potential is currently under-exploited. Observationally, voids are identified within the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Andrés N. Salcedo , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus

Non-trivial spatial topology of the Universe may give rise to potentially measurable signatures in the cosmic microwave background. We explore different machine learning approaches to classify harmonic-space realizations of the microwave…

Galaxies can be characterized by many internal properties such as stellar mass, gas metallicity, and star-formation rate. We quantify the amount of cosmological and astrophysical information that the internal properties of individual…

The Universe is mostly composed of large and relatively empty domains known as cosmic voids, whereas its matter content is predominantly distributed along their boundaries. The remaining material inside them, either dark or luminous matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Paul M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Stéphanie Escoffier , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jochen Weller

Cosmic voids in the large-scale structure of the Universe affect the peculiar motions of objects in their vicinity. Although these motions are difficult to observe directly, the clustering pattern of their surrounding tracers in redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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