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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

We develop an analysis pipeline for characterizing the topology of large scale structure and extracting cosmological constraints based on persistent homology. Persistent homology is a technique from topological data analysis that quantifies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

In this work we investigate the effects of the environment on the evolution of void galaxies. In particular, we study their morphology and explore its dependence with their location within the void where the galaxies reside, as well as with…

We report the detection, with a high level of confidence, of coherent outflows around voids found in the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR7). In particular, we developed a robust <|cos theta|> statistical test to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Santiago G. Patiri , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada

A method for detecting voids in the galaxy distribution is presented. Using this method, we have identified 732 voids with a radius of the seed sphere Rseed > 4.0h^{-1}Mpc in a volume-limited sample of galaxies from the southern part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton V. Tikhonov

Using a nearest neighbor analysis, we construct a sample of void galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compare the photometric properties of these galaxies to the population of non-void (wall) galaxies. We trace the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Randall R. Rojas , Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Jon Brinkmann

The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

We identify voids as maximal non-overlapping spheres within the haloes of the Uchuu simulation and three smaller halo simulation boxes with smaller volume and different $\sigma_{8}$ values, and galaxies with redshift in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Elena Fernández-García , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin

We investigate the topology of the new Point Source Catalogue Redshift Survey (PSCz) of IRAS galaxies by means of the genus statistic. The survey maps the local Universe with approximately 15000 galaxies over 84.1 per cent of the sky and…

Persistent homology (PH) is a popular tool for topological data analysis that has found applications across diverse areas of research. It provides a rigorous method to compute robust topological features in discrete experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

We explore the morphology of galaxies living in the proximity of cosmic voids, using a sample of voids identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. At all stellar masses, void galaxies exhibit morphologies of a later type than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Elena Ricciardelli , Antonio Cava , Jesus Varela , Amelie Tamone

Voids represent a unique environment for the study of galaxy evolution, as the lower density environment is expected to result in shorter merger histories and slower evolution of galaxies. This provides an ideal opportunity to test theories…

Euclid is poised to survey galaxies across a cosmological volume of unprecedented size, providing observations of more than a billion objects distributed over a third of the full sky. Approximately 20 million of these galaxies will have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 N. Hamaus , M. Aubert , A. Pisani , S. Contarini , G. Verza , M. -C. Cousinou , S. Escoffier , A. Hawken , G. Lavaux , G. Pollina , B. D. Wandelt , J. Weller , M. Bonici , C. Carbone , L. Guzzo , A. Kovacs , F. Marulli , E. Massara , L. Moscardini , P. Ntelis , W. J. Percival , S. Radinović , M. Sahlén , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , H. A. Winther , N. Auricchio , S. Awan , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , V. Capobianco , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , E. Munari , S. M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. Popa , L. Pozzetti , R. Rebolo , J. Rhodes , H. Rix , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. -L. Starck , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , M. Baldi , S. Camera , S. Mei , C. Neissner , E. Romelli

Topological analysis of galaxy distributions has gathered increasing attention in cosmology, as they are able to capture non-Gaussian features of large-scale structures (LSS) that are overlooked by conventional two-point clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jiayi Li , Cheng Zhao

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

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

The Void Galaxy Survey (VGS) is a multi-wavelength program to study $\sim$60 void galaxies. Each has been selected from the deepest interior regions of identified voids in the SDSS redshift survey on the basis of a unique geometric…

Using the method of searching for arbitrary shaped voids in the distribution of volume-limited samples of galaxies from the DR5 SDSS survey, we have identified voids and investigated their characteristics and the change in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anton V. Tikhonov

The Northern Local Void is a huge underdense region of the nearby Universe situated between the Hercules, Coma and Local Superclusters. We present an investigation of the galaxy distribution in the Northern Local Void using void statistics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Lindner , J. Einasto , M. Einasto , K. J. Fricke