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We study the formation and evolution of voids in the dark matter distribution using various simulations of the popular $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. We identify voids by requiring them to be regions of space with a mean overdensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg M. Colberg , Ravi K. Sheth , Antonaldo Diaferio , Liang Gao , Naoki Yoshida

We investigate the structural, photometric, and dynamical evolution of cosmic voids and their galaxy populations from $z=2.09$ to the present, focusing on void size as a key evolutionary parameter. Using void catalogs from four Millennium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Saeed Tavasoli

Perturbative, or effective field theory (EFT)-based, full-shape analyses of galaxy clustering data involve ``nuisance parameters'' to capture various observational effects such as the galaxy-dark matter connection (galaxy bias). We present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Andrej Obuljen , Michael W. Toomey

Perturbation Theory (PT) applied to a cosmological density field with Gaussian initial fluctuations suggests a specific hierarchy for the correlation functions when the variance is small. In particular quantitative predictions have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Munshi , F. Bernardeau , A. L. Melott , R. Schaeffer

We present a comparison of the properties of galaxies in the most underdense regions of the Universe, where the galaxy number density is less than 10% of the mean density, with galaxies from more typical regions. We have compiled a sample…

We study void galaxies in the TNG300 simulation between redshifts $z=3$ and $z=0$. Cosmic void catalogs were constructed using a watershed-based void-finding algorithm, and we define four populations of field galaxies for our investigation:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-18 Olivia Curtis , Bryanne McDonough , Tereasa Brainerd

Cosmic voids, the less dense patches of the Universe, are promising laboratories to extract cosmological information. Thanks to their unique low density character, voids are extremely sensitive to diffuse components such as neutrinos and…

The halo assembly bias, a phenomenon referring to dependencies of the large-scale bias of a dark matter halo other than its mass, is a fundamental property of the standard cosmological model. First discovered in 2005 from the Millennium Run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yen-Ting Lin , Hironao Miyatake , Hong Guo , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Kai-Feng Chen , Ting-Wen Lan , Yu-Yen Chang

Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest challenges in astrophysics today, due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical processes involved. Here we review the current status of models that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Rachel S. Somerville , Romeel Davé

Voids are a prominent feature of the galaxy distribution but their quantitative study is hindered by the lack of a precise definition of what constitutes a void. Here we propose a definition of voids in point distributions that uses methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose Gaite

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

We perform an extensive analysis of nonlinear and stochastic biasing of galaxies and dark halos in spatially flat low-density CDM universe using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We compare their biasing properties with the predictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Kohji Yoshikawa , Atsushi Taruya , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

Current explanation of the overabundance of dark matter subhalos in the Local Group (LG) indicates that there maybe a limit on mass of a halo, which can host a galaxy. This idea can be tested using voids in the distribution of galaxies: at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anton V. Tikhonov , Anatoly A. Klypin

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

Photometric redshift estimation is an indispensable tool of precision cosmology. One problem that plagues the use of this tool in the era of large-scale sky surveys is that the bright galaxies that are selected for spectroscopic observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-18 Peter E. Freeman , Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee

In this talk, I will show how to determine the biasing factor $b$ from the high-order moments of galaxies. The determination is based on the analytical modeling of primordial peaks and virialized halos and is independent of the currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. JING

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

Conventional approaches to cosmology inference from galaxy redshift surveys are based on n-point functions, which are under rigorous perturbative control on sufficiently large scales. Here, we present an alternative approach, which employs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabian Schmidt , Franz Elsner , Jens Jasche , Nhat Minh Nguyen , Guilhem Lavaux

The formation of the cosmic structures in the late Universe is considered using Vlasov kinetic approach. The crucial point is the use of the gravitational potential with repulsive term of the cosmological constant which provides a solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 V. G. Gurzadyan , N. N. Fimin , V. M. Chechetkin