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We develop a pseudo power spectrum technique for measuring the lensing power spectrum from weak lensing surveys in both the full sky and flat sky limits. The power spectrum approaches have a number of advantages over the traditional…

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Accurate estimation of galaxy cluster masses is a central problem in cosmology. Turbulence is believed to introduce significant deviations from the hydrostatic mass estimates. Estimation of turbulence properties is complicated by projection…

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Spectral analysis in conjunction with discrete data in one and more dimensions can become a challenging task, because the methods are sometimes difficult to understand. This paper intends to provide an overview about the usage of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-01 Martin Seilmayer , Matthias Ratajczak

In practice, the finite number of samples of the spherical radiation pattern or antenna gain are taken on the sphere for both the reconstruction of the antenna radiation pattern and the computation of mobile handset performance measures…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-03 Umair Ahmed , Zubair Khalid

We pose and solve the analogue of Slepian's time-frequency concentration problem on the surface of the unit sphere to determine an orthogonal family of strictly bandlimited functions that are optimally concentrated within a closed region of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen , Mark A. Wieczorek

Spatial variables can be observed in many different forms, such as regularly sampled random fields (lattice data), point processes, and randomly sampled spatial processes. Joint analysis of such collections of observations is clearly…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-20 Jake P. Grainger , Tuomas A. Rajala , David J. Murrell , Sofia C. Olhede

Measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background is most often based on a spherical harmonic analysis of the observed temperature anisotropies. Even if all-sky maps are obtained, however, it is likely that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel J. Mortlock , Anthony D. Challinor , Michael P. Hobson

We present two novel methods for the estimation of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We assume an absolute CMB experiment with arbitrary asymmetric beams and arbitrary sky coverage. The methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Elina Keihänen , Kimmo Kiiveri , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Martin Reinecke

The relative root mean squared errors (RMSE) of nonparametric methods for spectral estimation is compared for microwave scattering data of plasma fluctuations. These methods reduce the variance of the periodogram estimate by averaging the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-15 Kurt S. Riedel , Alexander Sidorenko , David J. Thomson

We propose a sampling scheme on the sphere and develop a corresponding spherical harmonic transform (SHT) for the accurate reconstruction of the diffusion signal in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). By exploiting the antipodal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Alice P. Bates , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy

In a mixed generalized linear model, the goal is to learn multiple signals from unlabeled observations: each sample comes from exactly one signal, but it is not known which one. We consider the prototypical problem of estimating two…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Yihan Zhang , Marco Mondelli , Ramji Venkataramanan

We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bo Wang , Li-Lian Wang , Ziqing Xie

Mie theory is a powerful method to model electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered sphere. Usually, the incident beam is expanded to its vector spherical harmonic representation defined by beam shape coefficients, and the multilayer…

Forthcoming high-resolution observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation will generate datasets many orders of magnitude larger than have been obtained to date. The size and complexity of such datasets presents a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Julian Borrill

In frequency domain analysis for spatial data, spectral averages based on the periodogram often play an important role in understanding spatial covariance structure, but also have complicated sampling distributions due to complex variances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Souvick Bera , Daniel J. Nordman , Soutir Bandyopadhyay

We present a theoretical and exact analysis of the bispectrum of projected galaxy catalogues. The result can be generalized to evaluate the projection in spherical harmonics of any 3D bispectrum and therefore has applications to cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Sabino Matarrese

We focus on an alignment-free method to estimate the underlying signal from a large number of noisy randomly shifted observations. Specifically, we estimate the mean, power spectrum, and bispectrum of the signal from the observations. Since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Hua Chen , Mona Zehni , Zhizhen Zhao

In this paper, we present a wideband subspace estimation method that characterizes the signal subspace through its orthogonal projection matrix at each frequency. Fundamentally, the method models this projection matrix as a function of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 J. Selva

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis for estimating the angular distribution of power in an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using ground-based laser interferometers. The standard isotropic and gravitational-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Eric Thrane , Stefan Ballmer , Joseph D. Romano , Sanjit Mitra , Dipongkar Talukder , Sukanta Bose , Vuk Mandic

To probe cosmological fields beyond the Gaussian level, three-point statistics can be used, all of which are related to the bispectrum. Hence, measurements of CMB anisotropies, galaxy clustering, and weak gravitational lensing alike have to…

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