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CONTEXT. Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations predict flows of the intergalactic medium along the radial vector of the voids, approximately in the direction of the infall of matter at the early stages of the galaxy formation. AIMS. These…

We consider the prospects for detecting weak gravitational lensing by underdensities (voids) in the large-scale matter distribution. We derive the basic expressions for magnification and distortion by spherical voids. Clustering of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Luca Amendola , Joshua A. Frieman , Ioav Waga

Void size function (VSF) contains information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS), and can be used to derive the properties of dark energy and dark matter. We predict the VSFs measured from the spectroscopic galaxy survey operated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Jiaxin Han , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

The voids between galaxies are identified with the volumes of the Poisson Voronoi tessellation. Two new survival functions for the apparent radii of voids are derived. The sectional normalized area of the Poisson Voronoi tessellation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Galaxies in the most underdense regions of the Universe, known as cosmic voids, exhibit astrophysical properties that suggest a distinct evolutionary path compared to galaxies in denser environments. Numerical simulations indicate that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Dante J. Paz , Damián Mast , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Andrés N. Ruiz

The interstellar medium of galaxies is filled with holes, bubbles, and shells, typically interpreted as remnants of stellar evolution. There is growing interest in the study of their properties to investigate stellar and supernova feedback.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Abolfazl Taghribi , Marco Canducci , Michele Mastropietro , Sven De Rijcke , Reynier Frans Peletier , Peter Tino , Kerstin Bunte

We investigate the properties of one--dimensional flux ``voids'' (connected regions in the flux distribution above the mean flux level) by comparing hydrodynamical simulations of large cosmological volumes with a set of observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matteo Viel , Joerg M. Colberg , Tae-Sun Kim

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

We study the prospects for measuring the dark matter distribution of voids with stacked weak lensing. We select voids from a large set of $N$-body simulations, and explore their lensing signals with the full ray-tracing simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yuichi Higuchi , Masamune Oguri , Takashi Hamana

We present a general analytical formalism to calculate accurately several statistics related to underdense regions in the Universe. The statistics are computed for dark matter halo and galaxy distributions both in real space and redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan Betancort-Rijo , Santiago G. Patiri , Francisco Prada , Antonio Enea Romano

Galaxies in cosmic voids have been reported with properties related to a delayed evolution with respect to the Universe in general. These characteristics reflect the interaction of galaxies with the environment. However, it is not clear the…

We present a novel parameter-free cosmological void finder (\textsc{dive}, Delaunay TrIangulation Void findEr) based on Delaunay Triangulation (DT), which efficiently computes the empty spheres constrained by a discrete set of tracers. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Cheng Zhao , Charling Tao , Yu Liang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Chia-Hsun Chuang

We investigate the large scale matter distribution adopting QSOs as matter tracer. The quasar catalogue based on the SDSS DR7 is used. The void finding algorithm is presented and statistical properties of void sizes and shapes are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 A. M. Sołtan

I present the results of a search for intergalactic hydrogen clouds in voids. Clouds are detected by their HI LyA absorption lines in the HST spectra of low-redshift AGN. The parameter with which the environments of clouds are characterized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. V. Manning

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

A recently-proposed algorithm identifies voids in simulations as the regions associated with halos when the initial overdensity field is negated. We apply this method to the real Universe by running a suite of constrained simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Harry Desmond , Maxwell L. Hutt , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

Voids form a prominent aspect of the Megaparsec distribution of galaxies and matter. Not only do they represent a key constituent of the Cosmic Web, they also are one of the cleanest probes and measures of global cosmological parameters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rien van de Weygaert

We use the void probability statistics to study the redshift-space galaxy distribution as described by a volume-limited subsample of the Perseus-Pisces survey. We compare the results with the same analysis realized on artificial samples,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Ghigna , S. Borgani , S. Bonometto , L. Guzzo , A. Klypin , J. R. Primack , R. Giovanelli , M. Haynes

Using cosmological $N$-body simulations and the void probability function (VPF), we investigate the statistical properties of voids within a wide range of initially Gaussian models for the origin of large-scale structure. We pay particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Blane Little , David H. Weinberg