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We investigate the shapes and mutual alignment of voids in the large scale matter distribution of a LCDM cosmology simulation. The voids are identified using the novel WVF void finder technique. The identified voids are quite nonspherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erwin Platen , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

The large scale distribution of galaxies in the universe displays a complex pattern of clusters, super-clusters, filaments and voids with sizes limited only by the boundaries of the available samples. A quantitative statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Francesco Sylos Labini , Luciano Pietronero

We discuss the intimate relationship between the filamentary features and the rare dense compact cluster nodes in this network, via the large scale tidal field going along with them, following the cosmic web theory developed Bond et al. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert

We measure the topology of volume-limited galaxy samples selected from a parent sample of 314,050 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS), which is now complete enough to describe the fully three-dimensional topology and its…

The expanding complex pattern of filaments, walls and voids build the evolving cosmic web with material flowing from underdense onto high density regions. Here we explore the dynamical behaviour of voids and galaxies in void shells relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-19 Marcelo Lares , Haliana Luparello , Victoria Maldonado , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Laura Cecarelli , Diego Garcia Lambas

We find clusters and superclusters of galaxies using the Data Release 1 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Density fields with smoothing lengthst of 10 and 0.8 Mpc/h are calculated. We found that galaxies and clusters in a high-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Einasto , E. Tago , M. Einasto , E. Saar

Cosmic voids are increasingly recognized as a promising tool for cosmological exploration. Their distribution and density profiles are highly responsive to alterations in gravitational theories, along with the influences of dark energy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Errehymy , S. Hansraj

In this paper we explore the use of spatial clustering algorithms as a new computational approach for modeling the cosmic web. We demonstrate that such algorithms are efficient in terms of computing time needed. We explore three distinct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dimitrios Kelesis , Spyros Basilakos , Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta , Dimitris Fotakis , Andreas Efstathiou

Rich clusters of galaxies are the most massive virialized systems known. Even though they contain only a small fraction of all galaxies, rich clusters provide a powerful tool for the study of galaxy formation, dark matter, large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neta A. Bahcall

We present a numerical proof of the concept that the void spin distributions can provide a tight constraint on the amplitude of matter density fluctuation on the scale of $8\,h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$ ($\sigma_{8}$) without being severely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Geonwoo Kang , Jounghun Lee

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall…

We study how the filamentary pattern of the cosmic web changes if the true gravity deviates from the general relativity (GR) on the large scale. The f(R) gravity whose strength is controlled to satisfy the current observational constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Junsup Shim , Jounghun Lee , Baojiu Li

The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Job Feldbrugge , Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert

We analyse shapes of overdense regions (clusters and superclusters) in controlled N-body simulations of gravitational clustering with power law initial spectra P(k) \propto k^n, n = -3, -2, -1, 0. At values of the density just above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. S. Sathyaprakash , Varun Sahni , Sergei F. Shandarin

We study how the properties of cosmic voids depend on those of the tracer galaxy populations in which they are identified. We use a suite of halo occupation distribution (HOD) mocks in a simulation, identify voids in these populations using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

CONTEXT: Cosmic voids are observed in the distribution of galaxies and, to some extent, in the dark matter distribution. If these distributions have fractal geometry, it must be reflected in the geometry of voids; in particular, we expect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 Jose Gaite

The large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found…

We have developed a machine learning algorithm capable of detecting ``out-of-domain data'' for trustworthy cosmological inference. By using data from two separate suites of cosmological simulations, we show that our algorithm is able to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ethan Tregidga , David Harvey , Luca Biggio , Felix Vecchi

Voids are a dominant feature of the low-redshift galaxy distribution. Several recent surveys have found evidence for the existence of large-scale structure at high redshifts as well. We present analytic estimates of galaxy void sizes at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anson D'Aloisio , Steven R. Furlanetto

We investigate the extent to which the number of clusters of mass exceeding $10^{15}\,M_{\odot}\,h^{-1}$ within the local super-volume ($<135\mathrm{\,Mpc}h^{-1}$) is compatible with the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. Depending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Jens Jasche , Priyamvada Natarajan