Catalogues of voids as antihalos in the local Universe [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09439


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 2M++ volume with initial conditions inferred by the BORG algorithm, along with the corresponding inverted set. Our 101 inverted and uninverted simulations, spanning the BORG posterior, each identify ~150,000 “voids as antihalos” with mass exceeding $4.36\times10^{11} : \mathrm{M_\odot}$ (100 particles) at $z=0$ in a full-sky sphere of radius 155 Mpc/h around the Milky Way. We calculate the size function, volume filling fraction, ellipticity, central and average density, specific angular momentum, clustering and stacked density profile of the voids, and cross-correlate them with those produced by VIDE on the same simulations. We make our antihalo and VIDE catalogues publicly available.

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H. Desmond, M. Hutt, J. Devriendt, et. al.
Tue, 21 Sep 21
35/85

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures; submitted to MNRASL