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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…

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We develop a method to identify cosmic voids from the matter density field by adopting a physically-motivated concept that voids are the counterpart of massive clusters. To prove the concept we use a pair of $\Lambda$CDM simulations, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Junsup Shim , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Ho Seong Hwang

In this work we present a new catalogue of Cosmic Filaments obtained from the latest Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) public data. In order to detect filaments, we implement a version of the Subspace-Constrained Mean-Shift algorithm, boosted…

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We identify cosmic voids from galaxy density fields under the theory of void-cluster correspondence. We extend the previous novel void-identification method developed for the matter density field to the galaxy density field for practical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Junsup Shim , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

We examine the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) imprint of voids and superclusters on the cosmic microwave background. We first study results from the Jubilee $N$-body simulation. From Jubilee, we obtain the full-sky ISW signal from structures…

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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

$ $Low density cosmic voids gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB), leaving a negative imprint on the CMB convergence $\kappa$. This effect provides insight into the distribution of matter within voids, and can also be…

This work explores the potential to detect the nonlinear Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect, namely the Rees-Sciama effect (ISWRS), by cross-correlating current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments -- Simons Observatory,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Viviana Cuozzo , Marina Migliaccio , Matteo Calabrese , Carmelita Carbone

The intrinsic alignments of galaxies, i.e., the correlation between galaxy shapes and their environment, are a major source of contamination for weak gravitational lensing surveys. Most studies of intrinsic alignments have so far focused on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 William d'Assignies D. , Nora Elisa Chisari , Nico Hamaus , Sukhdeep Singh

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

The alignment of the CMB Cold Spot and the Eridanus supervoid suggests a physical connection between these two relatively rare objects. We use galaxy cata\-logues with photometric (2MPZ) and spectroscopic (6dF) redshift measurements,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-14 András Kovács , Juan García-Bellido

We investigate the possibility to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect by cross-correlating 21-cm surveys at high redshifts with galaxies, in a way similar to the usual CMB-galaxy cross-correlation. The high-redshift 21-cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Alvise Raccanelli , Ely Kovetz , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski

(abridged) We present the Significant Cosmic Holes in Universe (SCHU) method for identifying cosmic voids and loops of filaments in cosmological datasets and assigning their statistical significance using techniques from topological data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-19 Xin Xu , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Sheridan B. Green , Daisuke Nagai

We construct a map of the time derivative of the gravitational potential traced by SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies. The potential decays on large scales due to cosmic acceleration, leaving an imprint on cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 Benjamin R. Granett , Mark C. Neyrinck , István Szapudi

We investigate the cosmological information contained in the cross-correlation between the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern and galaxy clusters from future wide surveys. Future surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Mario Ballardini , Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Lauro Moscardini , Barbara Sartoris , Luca Valenziano

Our view of the low-redshift Cosmic Web has been revolutionized by galaxy redshift surveys such as 6dFGS, SDSS and 2MRS. However, the trade-off between depth and angular coverage limits a systematic three-dimensional account of the entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Maciej Bilicki , John A. Peacock , Thomas H. Jarrett , Michelle E. Cluver , Louise Steward

The large-scale structure of the universe can only be observed via luminous tracers of the dark matter. However, the clustering statistics of tracers are biased and depend on various properties, such as their host-halo mass and assembly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-24 Giorgia Pollina , Nico Hamaus , Klaus Dolag , Jochen Weller , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini

We investigate the cosmological constraints from the void-lensing cross-correlation assuming the $w$CDM model for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) photometric survey. Using Jiutian simulations, we construct a mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Junhui Yan , Furen Deng , Hengjie Lin , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

We discuss the correlation between late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and the large scale structure of the local universe. This correlation has been proposed and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Seshadri Nadathur , Blake D. Sherwin , Nathan Whitehorn