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Pseudo-$C_\ell$s for spin-$s$ fields with component-wise weighting

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-05-05 v3 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a generalisation of the standard pseudo-CC_\ell approach for power spectrum estimation to the case of spin-ss fields weighted by a general positive-definite weight matrix that couples the different spin components of the field (e.g. QQ and UU maps in CMB polarisation analyses, or γ1\gamma_1 and γ2\gamma_2 shear components in weak lensing). Relevant use cases are, for example, data with significantly anisotropic noise properties, or situations in which different masks must be applied to the different field components. The weight matrix map is separated into a spin-0 part, which corresponds to the "mask" in the standard pseudo-CC_\ell approach, and a spin-2s2s part sourced solely by the anisotropic elements of the matrix, leading to additional coupling between angular scales and E/BE/B modes. The general expressions for the mode-coupling coefficients involving the power spectra of these anisotropic weight components are derived and validated. The generalised algorithm is as computationally efficient as the standard approach. We implement the method in the public code NaMaster.

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@article{arxiv.2410.07077,
  title  = {Pseudo-$C_\ell$s for spin-$s$ fields with component-wise weighting},
  author = {David Alonso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07077},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted in the Open Journal of Astrophysics

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