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Efficient computation of the galaxy angular bispectrum in redshift space

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Abstract

Efficient computation of the angular bispectrum is an essential part of modelling large-scale structure observations, but it still remains an extremely challenging task. In this work, we compute the tree-level, unequal-time angular bispectrum in both real and redshift space. By deriving full-sky results, we show that the bispectrum can be expressed as a sum of products of two angular power spectra, enabling the use of our recently developed flat-sky approximation to enhance computational efficiency significantly. This flat-sky formalism preserves key line-of-sight mode information while discarding extraneous full-sky contributions. We validate our approach by comparing it with direct full-sky integration, finding excellent agreement across a wide range of scales and redshifts for all bispectrum configurations. At redshift z=1z = 1, we achieve sub-percent agreement (for multipoles 5\ell \gtrsim 5) between full-sky and flat-sky results for equilateral, squeezed, and folded configurations, using narrow Gaussian radial window functions (σz=0.01\sigma_z = 0.01) in both equal-time and unequal-time scenarios. On small scales, where direct full-sky integration becomes computationally prohibitive, our results align with the Limber approximation (where applicable), confirming the robustness and accuracy of our implementation. To facilitate future studies, we provide a \texttt{Python} implementation of our results, which is publicly available on \texttt{GitHub}.

Comments: 28 pages, 7 figures. Prepared to submit to JCAP. Comments are welcome

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.30246,
  title  = {Efficient computation of the galaxy angular bispectrum in redshift space},
  author = {Zucheng Gao and Zvonimir Vlah and Anthony Challinor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30246},
  year   = {2026}
}