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We study how well void-finding algorithms identify cosmic void regions and whether we can quantitatively and qualitatively compare the voids they find with dynamical information from the underlying matter distribution. Using the ORIGAMI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Dahlia Veyrat , Kelly A. Douglass , Segev BenZvi

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy population properties in a complete volume-limited sample of 91566 galaxies in the redshift range 0.05 <= z <= 0.095 and with M_r <= -20.0, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sorrentino , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Rifatto

We extract void catalogs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 (SDSS DR16) survey and also from the Millennium simulation. We focus our comparison on distribution of galaxies brighter than $M_r < -18$ inside voids and study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Saeed Tavasoli

The properties of galaxies in low-density regions of the universe suggest an interplay between galaxy formation and environment. However, the specific reason why this particular large-scale environment influences the evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Agustín Rodríguez-Medrano , Volker Springel , Federico Stasyszyn , Dante Paz

Using the sample presented in Pan:2011, we analyse the photometric properties of 88,794 void galaxies and compare them to galaxies in higher density environments with the same absolute magnitude distribution. In Pan et al. (2011), we found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fiona Hoyle , Michael S. Vogeley , Danny Pan

Despite a history that dates back at least a quarter of a century studies of voids in the large--scale structure of the Universe are bedevilled by a major problem: there exist a large number of quite different void--finding algorithms, a…

Using cosmological $N$-body simulations and the void probability function (VPF), we investigate the statistical properties of voids within a wide range of initially Gaussian models for the origin of large-scale structure. We pay particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Blane Little , David H. Weinberg

Voids are the most prominent feature of the large-scale structure of the universe. Still, they have been generally ignored in quantitative analysis of it, essentially due to the lack of an objective tool to identify the voids and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Hagai El-Ad

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 perform a statistical study of the characteristics of galaxies in voids and void walls in the SDSS and 2dFGRS catalogues. We investigate dependencies of the distribution of galaxy spectral types and colours as a function of the relative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Ceccarelli , Nelson Padilla , Diego Garcia Lambas

Cosmic voids are a key component of the large-scale structure that contain a plethora of cosmological information. Typically, voids are identified from the underlying galaxy distribution, which is a biased tracer of the total matter field.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Christopher T. Davies , Enrique Paillas , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

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 study void galaxies in the TNG300 simulation between redshifts $z=3$ and $z=0$. Cosmic void catalogs were constructed using a watershed-based void-finding algorithm, and we define four populations of field galaxies for our investigation:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-18 Olivia Curtis , Bryanne McDonough , Tereasa Brainerd

Cosmic voids, the under-dense regions of the cosmic web, are widely used to constrain cosmology. Voids contain few, isolated galaxies, presumably expected to be less evolved and preserving memory of the pristine Universe. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Melanie Habouzit , Alice Pisani , Andy Goulding , Yohan Dubois , Rachel S. Somerville , Jenny E. Greene

We review and discuss aspects of Cosmic Voids that form the background for our Void Galaxy Survey (see accompanying paper by Stanonik et al.). Following a sketch of the general characteristics of void formation and evolution, we describe…

In this work, we present a study of the void lensing signal or the excess surface mass density (ESMD) around cosmic voids. First, we propose a new void-finder algorithm that is designed to capture the ESMD around voids. We compare our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Renan Boschetti , Pauline Vielzeuf , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Stephanie Escoffier , Eric Jullo

The size, shape and degree of emptiness of void interiors sheds light on the details of galaxy formation. A particularly interesting question is whether void interiors are completely empty or contain a dwarf population. However the nearby…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Brian K. Bucklein , J. Ward Moody , Eric G. Hintz

Upcoming deep optical surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will scan the sky to unprecedented depths and detect billions of galaxies. This amount of detections will however cause the apparent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Manon Ramel , Cyrille Doux , Marine Kuna

We discuss various applications of VIDE, the Void IDentification and Examination toolkit, an open-source Python/C++ code for finding cosmic voids in galaxy redshift surveys and N-body simulations. Based on a substantially enhanced version…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 P. M. Sutter , N. Hamaus , A. Pisani , G. Lavaux , B. D. Wandelt

Upcoming deep optical surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will scan the sky to unprecedented depths, detecting billions of galaxies. However, this amount of detections will lead to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Manon Ramel , Cyrille Doux , Marine Kuna