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We present libsharp, a code library for spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs), which evolved from the libpsht library, addressing several of its shortcomings, such as adding MPI support for distributed memory systems and SHTs of fields with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Reinecke , Dag Sverre Seljebotn

The spherical harmonic transform is a powerful tool in the analysis of spherical data sets, such as the cosmic microwave background data. In this work, we present a new scheme for the spherical harmonic transforms that supports both CPU and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Chi Tian , Siyu Li , Hao Liu

We present $\texttt{cunusht}$, a general-purpose Python package that wraps a highly efficient CUDA implementation of the nonuniform spin-$0$ spherical harmonic transform. The method is applicable to arbitrary pixelization schemes, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Sebastian Belkner , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Julien Carron , Nathanael Schaeffer , Martin Reinecke

We present Wavemoth, an experimental open source code for computing scalar spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs). Such transforms are ubiquitous in astronomical data analysis. Our code performs substantially better than existing publicly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-17 D. S. Seljebotn

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization -- is a versatile data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , A. J. Banday , B. D. Wandelt , F. K. Hansen , M. Reinecke , M. Bartelman

HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization) is a widely adopted spherical grid system in astrophysics, cosmology, and Earth sciences. Its equal-area, iso-latitude structure makes it particularly well-suited for large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Xiaopo Cheng , Akshay Subramaniam , Shixun Wu , Noah Brenowitz

We propose a transform for signals defined on the sphere that reveals their localized directional content in the spatio-spectral domain when used in conjunction with an asymmetric window function. We call this transform the directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Z. Khalid , R. A. Kennedy , S. Durrani , P. Sadeghi , Y. Wiaux , J. D. McEwen

In this paper, we report on very efficient algorithms for the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Explicitly vectorized variations of the algorithm based on the Gauss-Legendre quadrature are discussed and implemented in the SHTns library…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Nathanaël Schaeffer

In this paper we describe the main features of the software package named FITSH, intended to provide a standalone environment for analysis of data acquired by imaging astronomical detectors. The package provides utilities both for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Pál

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

Numerical integration on spheres, including the computation of the areas of spherical triangles, is a core computation in geomathematics. The commonly used techniques sometimes suffer from instabilities and significant loss of accuracy. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Yipeng Li , Xiangmin Jiao

A fast and exact algorithm is developed for the spin +-2 spherical harmonics transforms on equi-angular pixelizations on the sphere. It is based on the Driscoll and Healy fast scalar spherical harmonics transform. The theoretical exactness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vandergheynst

HEALPix is a Hierarchical, Equal Area, and iso-Latitude Pixelisation of the sphere designed to support efficiently - local operations on the pixel set, - a hierarchical tree structure for multi-resolution applications, and - the global Fast…

The authors present SHarmonic, a new implementation of the spherical harmonics targeted for electronic-structure calculations. Their approach is to use explicit formulas for the harmonics written in terms of normalized Cartesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Xavier Andrade , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping , Tadashi Ogitsu , Alfredo A. Correa

Spherical Harmonic Transforms (SHT) are at the heart of many scientific and practical applications ranging from climate modelling to cosmological observations. In many of these areas new, cutting-edge science goals have been recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Mikolaj Szydlarski , Pierre Esterie , Joel Falcou , Laura Grigori , R. Stompor

We develop a sampling scheme on the sphere that permits accurate computation of the spherical harmonic transform and its inverse for signals band-limited at $L$ using only $L^2$ samples. We obtain the optimal number of samples given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Apache Spark is a Big Data framework for working on large distributed datasets. Although widely used in the industry, it remains rather limited in the academic community or often restricted to software engineers. The goal of this paper is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 S. Plaszczynski , J. Peloton , C. Arnault , J. E. Campagne

For the accurate representation and reconstruction of band-limited signals on the sphere, an optimal-dimensionality sampling scheme has been recently proposed which requires the optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Wajeeha Nafees , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

ScopeSim is a flexible multipurpose instrument data simulation framework built in Python. It enables both raw and reduced observation data to be simulated for a wide range of telescopes and instruments quickly and efficiently on a personal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kieran Leschinski , Hugo Buddelmeijer , Oliver Czoske , Miguel Verdugo , Gijs Verdoes-Kleijn , Werner Zeilinger
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