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Aims: We assess the sensitivity of void shapes to the nature of dark energy that was pointed out in recent studies. We investigate whether or not void shapes are useable as an observational probe in galaxy redshift surveys. We focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-10 E. G. Patrick Bos , Rien van de Weygaert , Klaus Dolag , Valeria Pettorino

Cosmic voids provide a unique environment to study galaxy formation and evolution. In this paper, we analyse a set of hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of voids, to analyse in detail their inner structures. These voids were identified in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Agustín M. Rodríguez Medrano , Dante J. Paz , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Andrés N. Ruiz

We use simple analytic reasoning to identify physical processes that drive the evolution of the cosmic star formation density in cold dark matter universes. Based on our analysis, we formulate a model to characterise the redshift dependence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

We analyse the evolution of cosmological perturbations which leads to the formation of large voids in the distribution of galaxies. We assume that perturbations are spherical and all components of the Universe - radiation, matter and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj

A dark matter halo is commonly defined as a spherical overdensity of matter with respect to a reference density, such as the critical density or the mean matter density of the Universe. Such definitions can lead to a spurious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Benedikt Diemer , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

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

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 variance is the intrinsic scatter in the number density of galaxies due to fluctuations in the large-scale dark matter density field. In this work, we present a simple analytic model of cosmic variance in the high redshift Universe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 A. C. Trapp , Steven R. Furlanetto

We study the evolution of linear density perturbations in a large spherical void universe which accounts for the acceleration of the cosmic volume expansion without introducing dark energy. The density contrast of this void is not large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 Ryusuke Nishikawa , Chul-Moon Yoo , Ken-ichi Nakao

Understanding the internal structure and spatial distribution of cosmic voids is crucial when considering them as probes of cosmology. We present recent advances in modeling void density- and velocity-profiles in real space, as well as void…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-29 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational effects and cosmic expansion, and ability to span…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sofia Contarini , Giovanni Verza , Alice Pisani

We use a series of N-body simulations of the LCDM cosmology to investigate the redshift evolution since z=1 of the properties and alignment with the large-scale structure of haloes in clusters, filaments, sheets and voids. We find that: (i)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Hahn , C. Marcella Carollo , Cristiano Porciani , Avishai Dekel

We study the spherical evolution model for voids in $\Lambda$CDM, where the evolution of voids is governed by dark energy at an earlier time than that for the whole universe or in overdensities. We show that the presence of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Vasiliy Demchenko , Yan-Chuan Cai , Catherine Heymans , John A Peacock

In this review we discuss several aspects of Cosmic Voids. Voids are a major component of the large scale distribution of matter and galaxies in the Universe. They are of instrumental importance for understanding the emergence of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rien van de Weygaert , Erwin Platen

In this review we outline the major points of ab-initio cosmological models focusing on some galaxy evolution unresolved problems. In particular our knowledge of the star formation rate which leads galaxy evolution, i.e. luminosity, colors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Paola Mazzei

We study the evolution of disk galaxies within the frame of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies. The hydrodynamics of a centrifugally supported gaseous disk and the growth of a stellar disk are calculated in detail taking into account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese

We present a model for the distribution of void sizes and its evolution in the context of hierarchical scenarios of gravitational structure formation. We find that at any cosmic epoch the voids have a size distribution which is well-peaked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ravi K. Sheth , Rien van de Weygaert

We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to characterise the predictions from two independent galaxy formation models for the galactic content of dark matter haloes and its evolution with redshift. Our galaxy samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-16 S. Contreras , I. Zehavi , C. M. Baugh , N. Padilla , P. Norberg

Inspired on the well known dynamical dichotomy predicted in voids, where some underdense regions expand whereas others collapse due to overdense surrounding regions, we explored the interplay between the void inner dynamics and its large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 A. N. Ruiz , D. J. Paz , M. Lares , H. E. Luparello , L. Ceccarelli , D. G. Lambas

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