Harmonic analysis of isotropic fields on the sphere with arbitrary masks

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/038zbMATH Open1486.85004arXiv2109.13352OpenAlexW3202480327MaRDI QIDQ5863307FDOQ5863307

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)

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.

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)

Cites Work

• Data analysis and representation on a general domain using eigenfunctions of Laplacian
• Statistical methods for climate scientists
• Integral constraints in spectroscopic surveys

Cited In (3)

• 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

Uses Software

• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• Healpix

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