English

Efficient estimators for power spectrum and bispectrum multipole measurements

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-07 v1

Abstract

Large galaxy surveys demand fast and scalable estimators for anisotropic clustering statistics beyond the monopole. We present a suite of efficient FFT-based estimators for power-spectrum and bispectrum multipoles, built upon exact conjugation and parity symmetries of spherical-harmonic--weighted Fourier transforms of real fields. These symmetries eliminate redundant magnetic sub-configurations, thereby reducing the computational cost by a factor of 2. For the Yamamoto power-spectrum multipoles, we further decrease the cost of high-order even multipoles by algebraically expressing L2n{L}_{2n} in terms of lower-order Legendre polynomials, thereby measuring modified high-order multipoles using only low-\ell fields with a small and controlled deviation from the traditional definition. We introduce a new TripoSH bispectrum estimator obtained by compressing the Scoccimarro bispectrum along an alternative triangle side, which substantially reduces the FFT scaling for commonly used quadrupole configurations in the large-kk-bin limit. We also derive an analytic treatment of bispectrum shot noise by integrating spherical-harmonic kernels over the triangle-constrained kk-space volumes, avoiding additional FFTs or costly spherical-Bessel evaluations and enabling fast and accurate shot-noise subtraction. Based on these optimizations, we also introduce CosmoNPC, an open-source Python package for large-scale-structure clustering measurements.

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@article{arxiv.2605.04864,
  title  = {Efficient estimators for power spectrum and bispectrum multipole measurements},
  author = {Yunchen Xie and Ruiyang Zhao and Gan Gu and Xiaoma Wang and Xiaoyong Mu and Yuting Wang and Gong-Bo Zhao and Florian Beutler and John A. Peacock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04864},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

33 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Prepared for submission to ApJ

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