Dark matter voids in the SDSS galaxy survey
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Author(s)
Leclercq, F
Jasche, J
Sutter, PM
Hamaus, N
Wandelt, B
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
What do we know about voids in the dark matter distribution given the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and assuming the ΛCDM model? Recent application of the Bayesian inference algorithm BORG to the SDSS Data Release 7 main galaxy sample has generated detailed Eulerian and Lagrangian representations of the large-scale structure as well as the possibility to accurately quantify corresponding uncertainties. Building upon these results, we present constrained catalogs of voids in the Sloan volume, aiming at a physical representation of dark matter underdensities and at the alleviation of the problems due to sparsity and biasing on galaxy void catalogs. To do so, we generate data-constrained reconstructions of the presently observed large-scale structure using a fully non-linear gravitational model. We then find and analyze void candidates using the VIDE toolkit. Our methodology therefore predicts the properties of voids based on fusing prior information from simulations and data constraints. For usual void statistics (number function, ellipticity distribution and radial density profile), all the results obtained are in agreement with dark matter simulations. Our dark matter void candidates probe a deeper void hierarchy than voids directly based on the observed galaxies alone. The use of our catalogs therefore opens the way to high-precision void cosmology at the level of the dark matter field. We will make the void catalogs used in this work available at http://www.cosmicvoids.net.
Date Issued
2015-03-26
Date Acceptance
2015-02-21
Citation
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015, 2015 (03), pp.047-047
ISSN
1475-7516
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Start Page
047
End Page
047
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume
2015
Issue
03
Copyright Statement
© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in [insert name of journal]. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The definitive publisher authenticated version is available online at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/047/meta
Subjects
0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2015-03-26