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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

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

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…

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

Recent works have discovered a relatively tight correlation between $\Omega_{\rm m}$ and properties of individual simulated galaxies. Because of this, it has been shown that constraints on $\Omega_{\rm m}$ can be placed using the properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Chaitanya Chawak , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Nicolas Echeverri Rojas , Yueying Ni , ChangHoon Hahn , Daniel Angles-Alcazar

We present the first cosmological constraints using only the observed photometry of galaxies. Villaescusa-Navarro et al. (2022; arXiv:2201.02202) recently demonstrated that the internal physical properties of a single simulated galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 ChangHoon Hahn , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Peter Melchior , Romain Teyssier

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…

Standard cosmological analyses typically treat galaxy formation and cosmological parameter inference as decoupled problems, relying on population-level statistics such as clustering, lensing, or halo abundances. However, classical studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kito Liao , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Romain Teyssier , Natalí S. M. de Santi

Many approaches to obtaining cosmological constraints rely on the connection between galaxies and dark matter. However, the distribution of galaxies is dependent on their formation and evolution as well as the cosmological model, and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Rachel Reddick , Jeremy Tinker , Risa Wechsler , Yu Lu

Cosmic voids, the less dense patches of the Universe, are promising laboratories to extract cosmological information. Thanks to their unique low density character, voids are extremely sensitive to diffuse components such as neutrinos and…

The large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found…

Cosmic voids contain higher-order cosmological information and are of interest for astroparticle physics. Finding genuine matter underdensities in sparse galaxy surveys is, however, an underconstrained problem. Traditional void finding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Leander Thiele

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 explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

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

[Abridged] Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally-bound systems in the universe and are widely considered to be an effective cosmological probe. We propose the first Machine Learning method using galaxy cluster properties to…

Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational effects and cosmic expansion, and ability to span…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sofia Contarini , Giovanni Verza , Alice Pisani

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

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

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
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