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We present a new method of finding cosmic voids using tomographic maps of Ly{\alpha} forest flux. We identify cosmological voids with radii of 2 - 12 $h^{-1}$Mpc in a large N-body simulation at $z = 2.5$, and characterize the signal of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Casey W. Stark , Andreu Font-Ribera , Martin White , Khee-Gan Lee

With a primary goal of conducting precision weak lensing measurements from space, the COSMOS survey has imaged the largest contiguous area observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

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

We present a comparison of void properties between the standard model of cosmology, $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM), and two alternative cosmological models with evolving and interacting dark sectors: a quintessence model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Eromanga Adermann , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

We measure the redshift space reduced void probability function (VPF) for 2dFGRS volume limited galaxy samples covering the absolute magnitude range M_bJ-5logh=-18 to -22. Theoretically, the VPF connects the distribution of voids to the…

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

The study of the interesting cosmological properties of voids in the Universe depends on the efficient and robust identification of such voids in galaxy redshift surveys. Recently, Sutter et al. (2012) have published a public catalogue of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

We present a new approach for quantifying the abundance of galaxy clusters and constraining cosmological parameters using dynamical measurements. In the standard method, galaxy line-of-sight (LOS) velocities, $v$, or velocity dispersions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , J. Cisewski , L. C. Price

Cosmic voids are large, nearly empty regions that lie between the web of galaxies, filaments and walls, and are recognized for their extensive applications in the field of cosmology and astrophysics. Despite their significance, a universal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 P. Ghafour , S. Tavasoli , M. R. Shojaei

What do we know about voids in the dark matter distribution given the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and assuming the $\Lambda\mathrm{CDM}$ model? Recent application of the Bayesian inference algorithm BORG to the SDSS Data Release 7 main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , P. M. Sutter , Nico Hamaus , Benjamin Wandelt

We measure weak lensing mass profiles of voids from a volume-limited sample of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). We find voids using an algorithm designed to maximize the lensing signal by dividing the survey volume into 2D slices, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-12 Joseph Clampitt , Bhuvnesh Jain

We provide a new measurement of the expansion history of the Universe at $z=0.54$ with the cosmic chronometers (CC) method, exploiting the high-quality spectroscopic VLT/MUSE data for three galaxy clusters in close-by redshift bins: SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 E. Tomasetti , M. Moresco , G. Granata , M. D'Addona , P. Bergamini , C. Grillo , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , A. Cimatti , L. Tortorelli , S. Schuldt , M. Meneghetti

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure. In this paper we develop and test a new statistic based on anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Will J Percival , Martin White

Mapping galaxies at low Galactic latitudes and determining their clustering status are fundamental steps in defining the large-scale structure in the nearby Universe. The VVV Near-IR Galaxy Catalogue (VVV NIRGC) allows us to explore this…

We apply and extend standard tools for void statistics to cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations with numerical relativity (NR). We obtain a simulated void catalogue without Newtonian approximations, using a new watershed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Michael J. Williams , Hayley J. Macpherson , David L. Wiltshire , Chris Stevens

We study the distribution of cosmic voids and void galaxies using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Using the VoidFinder algorithm as described by Hoyle 2002, we identify 1054 statistically significant voids in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danny C. Pan , Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Yun-Young Choi , Changbom Park

In this paper we study the sensitivity of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project to the determination of cosmological parameters, employing the Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) method. For comparison,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming powerful Stage IV space-based optical survey equipment. It is expected to explore a number of important cosmological problems in extremely high precision. In this work, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hengjie Lin , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Kwan Chuen Chan , Zuhui Fan , Hu Zhan

We present an overview of the Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS), a new technique for studying astrophysical turbulence that utilizes the line-of-sight statistics of Doppler-broadened spectral lines. We consider the retrieval of turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-03 D. Pogosyan , A. Lazarian