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We present 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, characterizing their properties, and providing a platform for more…

Cosmic voids are key elements in our understanding of the large-scale structure of the Universe. They are crucial to constrain cosmological parameters, understand the structure formation and evolution of our Universe, and they could also be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

Cosmic voids are the major volume component in the matter distribution of the Universe. They posses great potential for constraining dark energy as well as for testing theories of gravity. Nevertheless, in spite of their growing popularity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Tommaso Ronconi , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini

Subject of this paper is a detailed analysis of the PINOCCHIO algorithm for studying the relative velocity statistics of merging haloes in Lagrangian perturbation theory. Given a cosmological background model, a power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Lavinia Heisenberg , Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Matthias Bartelmann

We present radial density profiles, as traced by luminous galaxies and dark matter particles, for voids in eleven snapshots of the \texttt{TNG300} simulation. The snapshots span 11.65~Gyr of cosmic time, corresponding to the redshift range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 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

Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Lehman , Nico Schuster , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Nico Hamaus , Christopher T. Davies , Klaus Dolag

Cosmic voids are a promising environment to characterize neutrino-induced effects on the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe. We perform a comprehensive numerical study of the statistical properties of voids, identified both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Elena Massara , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , P. M. Sutter

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib

The sizes and shapes of voids in a galaxy survey depend not only on the physics of structure formation, but also on the sampling density of the survey and on the algorithm used to define voids. Using an N-body simulation with a CDM power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason D. Schmidt , Barbara S. Ryden , Adrian L. Melott

We present a statistical analysis of voids in the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). In order to detect the voids, we have developed two robust algorithms. We define voids as non-overlapping maximal spheres empty of halos or galaxies with…

Cosmic voids are becoming key players in testing the physics of our Universe. Here we concentrate on the abundances and the dynamics of voids as these are among the best candidates to provide information on cosmological parameters. Cai,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Nelson Padilla , Dante Paz , Marcelo Lares , Laura Ceccarelli , Diego Garcia Lambas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Baojiu Li

Void number counts (VNC) indicates the number of low-density regions in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and we propose to use it as an effective cosmological probe. By generating the galaxy mock catalog based on Jiutian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

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

On the smallest scales, three-dimensional large-scale structure surveys contain a wealth of cosmological information which cannot be trivially extracted due to the non-linear dynamical evolution of the density field. Lagrangian perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Héctor Gil-Marín , Benjamin Wandelt

We utilize the Magneticum suite of hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the formation and evolution of cosmic voids from $z = 5.04$ to present day, using cold dark matter and (sub-) halo tracers in high-density samples. This includes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Nico Schuster , Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Klaus Dolag , Jochen Weller

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 propose a novel technique to probe the expansion history of the Universe based on the clustering statistics of cosmic voids. In particular, we compute their two-point statistics in redshift space on the basis of realistic mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-11 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt