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The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most effective construction and the characteristics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. C. Coutinho , Sungryong Hong , Kim Albrecht , Arjun Dey , Albert-László Barabási , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The void power spectrum is related to the clustering of low-density regions in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and can be used as an effective cosmological probe to extract the information of the LSS. We generate the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

Cosmic voids are large underdense regions that, together with galaxy clusters, filaments and walls, build up the large-scale structure of the Universe. The void size function provides a powerful probe to test the cosmological framework.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Sofia Contarini , Tommaso Ronconi , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Marco Baldi

We review cosmological inference from galaxy surveys at low and high redshifts, with emphasis on new Southern sky surveys. We focus on several issues: (i) The importance of understanding selection effects in catalogues and matching Northern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Studying the structures (halos and galaxies) within the cosmic environments (void, sheet, filament, and node) where they reside is an ongoing attempt in cosmological studies. The link between the properties of structures and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Hossein Hatamnia , Shant Baghram

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

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

We present new numerical tools to analyse cosmic void catalogues, implemented inside the CosmoBolognaLib, a large set of Open Source C++/Python numerical libraries. The CosmoBolognaLib provides a common numerical environment for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tommaso Ronconi , Federico Marulli

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

Understanding the evolution of galaxies provides crucial insights into a broad range of aspects in astrophysics, including structure formation and growth, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, baryonic physics, and more. It is,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Filipp , Yiping Shu , Ruediger Pakmor , Sherry H. Suyu , Xiaosheng Huang

Galaxies in the most underdense regions of the Universe, known as cosmic voids, exhibit astrophysical properties that suggest a distinct evolutionary path compared to galaxies in denser environments. Numerical simulations indicate that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Dante J. Paz , Damián Mast , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Andrés N. Ruiz

In the present work we focus on future experiments using cluster abundance observations to constraint the Dark Energy equation of state parameter, w. To obtain tight constraints from this kind of experiment, a reliable sample of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-22 M. Soares-Santos , R. R. de Carvalho , F. La Barbera , P. A. A. Lopes , J. Annis

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

The aim of this study is to distinguish genuine cosmic voids, found in a galaxy catalog by the void finder ZOBOV-VIDE, from under-dense regions in a Poisson distribution of objects. For this purpose, we perform two multivariate analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-14 M. -C Cousinou , A. Pisani , A. Tilquin , N. Hamaus , A. -J Hawken , S. Escoffier

Model-independent methods in cosmology has become an essential tool in order to deal with an increasing number of theoretical alternatives for explaining the late-time acceleration of the Universe. In principle, this provides a way of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Vinicius C. Busti , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Diego Saez-Gomez

Upcoming cosmological surveys will provide unprecedented amount of data, which will require innovative statistical methods to maximize the scientific exploitation. Standard cosmological analyses based on abundances, two-point and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Farida Farsian , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Carlo Giocoli

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

This paper presents a systematic literature review focusing on the application of machine learning techniques for deriving observational constraints in cosmology. The goal is to evaluate and synthesize existing research to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Luis Rojas , Sebastián Espinoza , Esteban González , Carlos Maldonado , Fei Luo

Context: We present the first Cosmological Parameter inferences from eROSITA X-ray observations of galaxy clusters using a Machine Learning algorithm. Methods: We train a Random Forest using mock catalogs of clusters from Magneticum…