Harmonic analysis of isotropic fields on the sphere with arbitrary masks

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/038MaRDI QIDQ5863307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt, Olivier Doré

Publication date 11 March 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13352

zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumredshift surveyscosmological parameters from LSS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

Abstract: Obtaining constraints from the largest scales of a galaxy survey is challenging due to the survey mask allowing only partial measurement of large angular modes. This scatters information from the harmonic-space 2-point function away from the diagonal and introduces coupling between modes. In this paper, we derive a custom eigenbasis adapted to any particular survey geometry so that all information is retained on the diagonal. At the expense of a somewhat complex pixel- and selection-function-window, the result is a diagonal 2-point function with a simple shot noise, and a diagonal covariance matrix in the case of a Gaussian random field. We derive the basis on the surface of a sphere, and we use it to construct a 3D spherical Fourier-Bessel power spectrum estimator assuming a survey geometry that is separable in the angular and radial directions.

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• The galaxy power spectrum on the lightcone: deep, wide-angle redshift surveys and the turnover scale
• Harmonic analysis of directing fields
• Harmonic fields on the extended projective disk and a problem in optics

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• Healpix
• DLMF

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