THE SIZE, SHAPE, AND ORIENTATION OF COSMOLOGICAL VOIDS IN THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

We present a detailed description of our void finding algorithm which is an extension of the prescription by Hoyle and Vogeley. We include a discussion of the reproducibility and robustness of the algorithm as well as the statistical significance of the detected voids. We apply our void finder to the Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and identify 232 cosmological voids. A void catalog which contains the most salient properties of the detected voids is created. We present a statistical analysis of the distribution of the size, shape, and orientation of our identified cosmological voids. We also investigate possible trends with redshift for 0.04 {