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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 440, Issue 1, Pages 601-609Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu307
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methods: numerical; cosmology: observations; dark matter; large-scale structure of Universe
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [AYA2010-21322-C03-01]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO-2009-103]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [3I2005, 3I2406]
- FITE (Fondos de Inversin de Teruel)
- [AYA2012-30789]
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The massive exploitation of cosmic voids for precision cosmology in the upcoming dark energy experiments requires a robust understanding of their internal structure, particularly of their density profile. We show that the void density profile is insensitive to the void radius both in a catalogue of observed voids and in voids from a large cosmological simulation. However, the observed and simulated voids display remarkably different profile shapes, with the former having much steeper profiles than the latter. Sparsity cannot be the main reason for this discrepancy, as we demonstrate that the profile can be recovered with reasonable accuracy even with very sparse samples of tracers. On the other hand, the observed profile shows a significant dependence on the galaxy sample used to trace the matter distribution. Samples including low-mass galaxies lead to shallower profiles with respect to the samples where only massive galaxies are used, as faint galaxies live closer to the void centre. We argue that galaxies are biased tracers when used to probe the matter distribution within voids.
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