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Density Profiles of TNG300 Voids across Cosmic Time

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arxiv 2504.15902 v1 pith:M22XS3XJ submitted 2025-04-22 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.CO

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We present radial density profiles, as traced by luminous galaxies and dark matter particles, for voids in eleven snapshots of the \texttt{TNG300} simulation. The snapshots span 11.65~Gyr of cosmic time, corresponding to the redshift range $0 \le z \le 3$. Using the comoving galaxy fields, voids were identified via a well-tested, watershed transformation-based algorithm. Voids were defined to be underdense regions that are unlikely to have arisen from Poisson noise, resulting in the selection of $\sim100-200$ of the largest underdense regions in each snapshot. At all redshifts, the radial density profiles as traced by both the galaxies and the dark matter resemble inverse top-hat functions. However, details of the functions (particularly the underdensities of the innermost regions and the overdensities of the ridges) evolve considerably more for the dark matter density profiles than for the galaxy density profiles. At all redshifts, a linear relationship between the galaxy and dark matter density profiles exists, and the slope of the relationship is similar to the bias estimates for \texttt{TNG300} snapshots. Lastly, we identify distinct environments in which voids can exist, defining ``void-in-void" and ``void-in-cloud" populations (i.e., voids that reside in larger underdense or overdense regions, respectively) and we investigate ways in which the relative densities of dark matter and galaxies in the interiors and ridges of these structures vary as a function of void environment.

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    astro-ph.CO 2025-09 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Cosmic voids traced by halos become stable at late times, and the matter around them evolves linearly, supporting their use as clean dark-energy probes.

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    astro-ph.CO 2026-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Galaxy and subhalo mass fractions relative to dark matter decrease towards the centres of matched cosmic voids, with galaxy-to-subhalo ratios limited by the scarcity of massive subhaloes.

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