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Cosmic voids are an important probe of large-scale structure that can constrain cosmological parameters and test cosmological models. We present a new paradigm for void studies: void detection in weak lensing convergence maps. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Cosmic voids are effective cosmological probes to discriminate among competing world models. Their identification is generally based on density or geometry criteria that, because of their very nature, are prone to shot noise. We propose two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrii Elyiv , Federico Marulli , Giorgia Pollina , Marco Baldi , Enzo Branchini , Andrea Cimatti , Lauro Moscardini

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

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

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

The aim of this study is to distinguish genuine cosmic voids, found in a galaxy catalog by the void finder ZOBOV-VIDE, from under-dense regions in a Poisson distribution of objects. For this purpose, we perform two multivariate analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-14 M. -C Cousinou , A. Pisani , A. Tilquin , N. Hamaus , A. -J Hawken , S. Escoffier

Cosmic voids are large underdense regions that, together with galaxy clusters, filaments and walls, build up the large-scale structure of the Universe. The void size function provides a powerful probe to test the cosmological framework.…

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

Understanding galaxy properties may be the key to unlocking some of the most intriguing mysteries of modern cosmology. Recent work relied on machine learning to extract cosmological constraints on $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ using only one galaxy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Bonny Y. Wang , Alice Pisani

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

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

We apply the BORG algorithm to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 main sample galaxies. The method results in the physical inference of the initial density field at a scale factor $a~=~10^{-3}$, evolving gravitationally to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-06 Florent Leclercq

The dark sirens method combines gravitational waves and catalogs of galaxies to constrain the cosmological expansion history, merger rates and mass distributions of compact objects, and the laws of gravity. However, the incompleteness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

Voids are the most prominent feature of the LSS of the universe. Still, they have been generally ignored in quantitative analysis of it, essentially due to the lack of an objective tool to identify and quantify the voids. To overcome this,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hagai El-Ad , Tsvi Piran

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

Cosmic voids, the largest underdense regions in the Universe, provide unique laboratories for studying galaxy formation and constitute powerful probes of cosmology. Recent work has shown that individual galaxy bias (b_i), which quantifies…

The properties of large underdensities in the distribution of galaxies in the Universe, known as cosmic voids, are potentially sensitive probes of fundamental physics. We use data from the MultiDark suite of N-body simulations and multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-24 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss , Robert Crittenden

Galaxy bias, the unknown relationship between the clustering of galaxies and the underlying dark matter density field is a major hurdle for cosmological inference from large-scale structure. While traditional analyses focus on the absolute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Nico Hamaus , Benjamin D. Wandelt , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Michael S. Warren

Cosmic voids are underdense regions within the large-scale structure of the Universe, spanning a wide range of physical scales - from a few megaparsecs (Mpc) to the largest observable structures. Their distinctive properties make them…

Cosmic voids are a key component of the large-scale structure that contain a plethora of cosmological information. Typically, voids are identified from the underlying galaxy distribution, which is a biased tracer of the total matter field.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Christopher T. Davies , Enrique Paillas , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li
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