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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

How do observed voids relate to the underlying dark matter distribution? To examine the spatial distribution of dark matter contained within voids identified in galaxy surveys, we apply Halo Occupation Distribution models representing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Warren

We investigate the properties of voids and void galaxies in the \texttt{TNG300} simulation. Using a luminous galaxy catalog and a spherical void finding algorithm, we identify 5,078 voids at redshift $z = 0$. Within the voids, mass does not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-05 Olivia Curtis , Bryanne McDonough , Tereasa G. Brainerd

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

A timely combination of new theoretical ideas and observational discoveries has brought about significant advances in our understanding of cosmic evolution. Computer simulations have played a key role in these developments by providing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Carlos S. Frenk

Current models of galaxy formation applied to understanding the large-scale structure of the universe have two parts. The first is an accurate solution of the equations of motion for the dark matter due to gravitational clustering. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

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

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

Understanding the formation and evolution of the cosmic web of galaxies is a fundamental goal of cosmology, using various tracers of the cosmic large-scale structure at an ever wider range of redshifts. Our principal aim is to advance the…

Evidence shows properties of dark matter haloes may vary with large-scale environment. By studying the halo occupation distribution in cosmic voids it is possible to obtain useful information that can shed light on the subject. The history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ignacio. G. Alfaro , Facundo Rodriguez , Andrés N. Ruiz , Diego Garcia Lambas

We present the latest version of Pinocchio, a code that generates catalogues of DM haloes in an approximate but fast way with respect to an N-body simulation. This code version extends the computation of particle and halo displacements up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Emiliano Munari , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Sefusatti , Emanuele Castorina , Faizan G. Mohammad , Stefano Anselmi , Stefano Borgani

The statistical study of voids in the matter distribution promises to be an important tool for precision cosmology, but there are known discrepancies between theoretical models of voids and the voids actually found in large simulations or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

A recently-proposed algorithm identifies voids in simulations as the regions associated with halos when the initial overdensity field is negated. We apply this method to the real Universe by running a suite of constrained simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Harry Desmond , Maxwell L. Hutt , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

The stacked density profile of cosmic voids in the galaxy distribution provides an important tool for the use of voids for precision cosmology. We study the density profiles of voids identified using the ZOBOV watershed transform algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Nadathur , S. Hotchkiss , J. M. Diego , I. T. Iliev , S. Gottlöber , W. A. Watson , G. Yepes

Our goal is to see how density waves of different scale combine to form voids between galaxy systems of various scale. We perform numerical simulations of structure formation in cubes of size 100 and 256 Mpc/h, with resolutions 256^3 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 J. Einasto , I. Suhhonenko , G. Hütsi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

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

Cosmic voids refer to the large empty regions in the universe with a very low number density of galaxies. Voids are likely to be severely disturbed by the tidal effect from the surrounding dark matter. We derive a completely analytic model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daeseong Park , Jounghun Lee

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 review and discuss aspects of Cosmic Voids that form the background for our Void Galaxy Survey (see accompanying paper by Stanonik et al.). Following a sketch of the general characteristics of void formation and evolution, we describe…

We present a cosmic void catalog using the large-scale structure galaxy catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This galaxy catalog is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12 and is the final…