The sparkling Universe: the coherent motions of cosmic voids

DIEGO GARCIA LAMBAS; MARCELO LARES; LAURA CECCARELLI; ANDRÉS N. RUIZ; DANTE J. PAZ; VICTORIA E. MALDONADO; HELIANA E. LUPARELLO

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2016 vol. 455 p. 99 - 103

We compute the bulk motions of cosmic voids, using a cold dark matter numerical simulation considering the mean velocities of the dark matter inside the void itself and that of the haloes in the surrounding shell. We find coincident values of these two measures in the range ∼300?400km/s, not far from the expected mean peculiar velocities of groups and galaxy clusters. When analysing the distribution of the pairwise relative velocities of voids, we find a remarkable bimodal behaviour consistent with an excess of both systematically approaching and receding voids. We determine that the origin of this bimodality besides in the void large-scale environment, since once voids are classified into void-in-void(R-type) or void-in-cloud (S-type), R-types are found mutually receding away, while S-types approach each other. The magnitude of these systematic relative velocities account for more than 100km/s, reaching large coherence lengths of up to 200 hMpc . We have used samples of voids from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 and the peculiar velocity field inferred from linear theory, finding fully consistent results with the simulation predictions. Thus, their relative motion suggests a scenario of a sparkling universe, with approaching and receding voids according to their local environment.