First measurement of projected phase correlations and large-scale structure constraints
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2022-06-23 v1
Abstract
Phase correlations are an efficient way to extract astrophysical information that is largely independent from the power spectrum. We develop an estimator for the line correlation function (LCF) of projected fields, given by the correlation between the harmonic-space phases at three equidistant points on a great circle. We make a first, 6.5 measurement of phase correlations on data from the 2MPZ survey. Finally, we show that the LCF can significantly improve constraints on parameters describing the galaxy-halo connection that are typically degenerate using only two-point data.
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@article{arxiv.2206.11005,
title = {First measurement of projected phase correlations and large-scale structure constraints},
author = {Felipe Oliveira Franco and Boryana Hadzhiyska and David Alonso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11005},
year = {2022}
}