English

Beyond the traditional Line-of-Sight approach of cosmological angular statistics

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-10-31 v2

Abstract

We present a new efficient method to compute the angular power spectra of large-scale structure observables that circumvents the numerical integration over Bessel functions, expanding on a recently proposed algorithm based on FFTlog. This new approach has better convergence properties. The method is explicitly implemented in the CLASS code for the case of number count CC_\ell's (including redshift-space distortions, weak lensing, and all other relativistic corrections) and cosmic shear CC_\ell's. In both cases our approach speeds up the calculation of the exact CC_\ell's (without the Limber approximation) by a factor of order 400 at a fixed precision target of 0.1%.

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@article{arxiv.1807.09540,
  title  = {Beyond the traditional Line-of-Sight approach of cosmological angular statistics},
  author = {Nils Schöneberg and Marko Simonović and Julien Lesgourgues and Matias Zaldarriaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09540},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

40 pages, 6 figures; v2: one reference added