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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2010, Article ID 693968, 16 pages doi:10.1155/2010/693968 Review Article Dwarf Galaxies in Voids: Dark Matter Halos and Gas Cooling 1 ¨ 2 Matthias Hoeft and Stefan Gottlober 1 Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany ¨ 2 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, 14482 Potsdam, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Matthias Hoeft, hoeft@tls-tautenburg.de Received 7 July 2009; Accepted 14 January 2010 Academic Editor: Ulrich Hopp ¨ Copyright © 2010 M. Hoeft and S. Gottlober. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Galaxy surveys have shown that luminous galaxies are mainly distributed in large filaments and galaxy clusters. The remaining large volumes are virtually devoid of luminous galaxies. This is in concordance with the formation of the large-scale structure in the universe as derived from cosmological simulations. However, the numerical results indicate that cosmological voids are abundantly populated with dark matter haloes which may in principle host dwarf galaxies. Observational efforts have in contrast revealed that voids are apparently devoid of dwarf galaxies. We investigate the formation of dwarf galaxies in voids by hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Due to the cosmic ultraviolet background radiation low-mass haloes show generally a reduced baryon fraction. We determine the characteristic mass below which dwarf galaxies are baryon deficient. We show t