Cosmic Voids in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7
Danny C. Pan, Michael S. Vogeley, Fiona Hoyle, Yun-Young Choi,, Changbom Park

TL;DR
This paper analyzes cosmic voids in SDSS DR7 data, identifying over a thousand significant voids, comparing them with simulations, and providing a publicly available catalog to study large-scale structure.
Contribution
It presents a comprehensive catalog of cosmic voids in SDSS DR7 using VoidFinder, and compares observational results with b4CDM simulations, demonstrating consistency between data and models.
Findings
Identified 1054 significant voids with radii > 10 h^{-1} Mpc.
Void sizes and fractions are consistent with b4CDM simulations.
Largest void has a radius just over 30 h^{-1} Mpc.
Abstract
We study the distribution of cosmic voids and void galaxies using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Using the VoidFinder algorithm as described by Hoyle 2002, we identify 1054 statistically significant voids in the northern galactic hemisphere with radii > 10 h^{-1} Mpc. The filling factor of voids in the sample volume is 62%. The largest void is just over 30 h^{-1} Mpc in effective radius. The median effective radius is 17 h^{-1} Mpc. The voids are found to be significantly underdense, with density contrast \delta < -0.85 at the edges of the voids. The radial density profiles of these voids are similar to predictions of dynamically distinct underdensities in gravitational theory. We find 8,046 galaxies brighter than M_r = -20.09 within the voids, accounting for 7% of the galaxies. We compare the results of VoidFinder on SDSS DR7 to mock catalogs generated from a SPH…
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