Void catalogs from SDSS DR7

DOI

We produce several public void catalogs using a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Using new implementations of three different void-finding algorithms, VoidFinder and two ZOBOV-based algorithms (VIDE and REVOLVER), we identify 1163, 531, and 518 cosmic voids with radii >10h^-1^Mpc, respectively, out to a redshift of z=0.114 assuming a Planck 2018 cosmology, and 1184, 535, and 519 cosmic voids assuming a WMAP5 cosmology. We compute effective radii and centers for all voids and find none with an effective radius >54h^-1^Mpc. The median void effective radius is 15-19h^-1^Mpc for all three algorithms. We extract and discuss several properties of the void populations, including radial density profiles, the volume fraction of the catalog contained within voids, and the fraction of galaxies contained within voids. Using 64 mock galaxy catalogs created from the Horizon Run 4 N-body simulation, we compare simulated and observed void properties and find good agreement between the SDSS DR7 and mock catalog results.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/265/7/table1 (VoidFinder output: Maximal spheres for two cosmologies)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/265/7/table3 (V2 output: Voids for two prunings and two cosmologies)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22650007
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/265/7
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/265/7
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/265/7
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/265/7
Provenance
Creator Douglass K.A.; Veyrat D.; BenZvi S.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2023
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics