Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-11-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS, for high resolution version, see http://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/tim1publication/vo
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13019.x
We investigate the shapes and mutual alignment of voids in the large scale matter distribution of a LCDM cosmology simulation. The voids are identified using the novel WVF void finder technique. The identified voids are quite nonspherical and slightly prolate, with axis ratios in the order of c:b:a approx. 0.5:0.7:1. Their orientations are strongly correlated with significant alignments spanning scales >30 Mpc/h. We also find an intimate link between the cosmic tidal field and the void orientations. Over a very wide range of scales we find a coherent and strong alignment of the voids with the tidal field computed from the smoothed density distribution. This orientation-tide alignment remains significant on scales exceeding twice the typical void size, which shows that the long range external field is responsible for the alignment of the voids. This confirms the view that the large scale tidal force field is the main agent for the large scale spatial organization of the Cosmic Web.
de Weygaert Rien van
Jones Bernard J. T.
Platen Erwin
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