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Void spin distribution as a powerful probe of $\sigma_{8}$

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-06-11 v2

Abstract

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 8h1Mpc8\,h^{-1}{\rm Mpc} (σ8\sigma_{8}) without being severely deteriorated by the degeneracies of σ8\sigma_{8} with cold dark matter density parameter multiplied by the dimensionless Hubble parameter square (Ωcdmh2\Omega_{\rm cdm}h^{2}), total neutrino mass (MνM_{\nu}) and dark energy equation of state (ww). Applying the Void-Finder algorithm~\cite{HV02} to a total of 1515 AbacusSummit NN-body simulations of 1515 different cosmological models~\cite{summit1}, we identify the giant voids and measure the magnitudes of rescaled specific angular momenta of point-like void halos as their spins. The 1515 cosmologies include the Planck Λ\LambdaCDM and 1414 non-Planck models, each of which differs among one another only in one of {σ8, Ωcdmh2, Mν, w}\{\sigma_{8},\ \Omega_{\rm cdm}h^{2},\ M_{\nu},\ w\}. We determine the probability density distribution of void spins for each model and for the first time find it to be well approximated by the generalized Gamma distribution with two characteristic parameters, kk and θ\theta. It turns out that the best-fit values of kk and θ\theta exhibit very sensitive dependence only on σ8\sigma_{8}, being almost insensitive to Ωcdmh2\Omega_{\rm cdm}h^{2}, MνM_{\nu} and ww. This exclusive σ8\sigma_{8}-dependence of the void spin distributions is confirmed to be robust against the variation of the mass and number cuts of void halos. We also test an observational feasibility of estimating the void spins from real data on the galaxy redshifts.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09476,
  title  = {Void spin distribution as a powerful probe of $\sigma_{8}$},
  author = {Geonwoo Kang and Jounghun Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09476},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in JCAP, 15 figures, 3 tables, feasibility test extended, revised version after referee's review

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