http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07705
Cosmic voids have been shown to be an effective probe of cosmology, complementary to galaxy clusters. In this work, we present a simple theoretical framework for predicting of the size of the largest voids expected within a given redshift and volume. Our model is based on the exact extreme-value statistics which has previously been successfully applied to massive galaxy clusters. We implement our formalism using the void-abundance model of Sheth and Van de Weygaert and find results that are consistent with dark-matter simulation. We discuss several ways in which our framework can be adapted to other void models.
S. Chongchitnan
Fri, 27 Feb 15
49/60
Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures
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