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We present the angular power spectrum derived from the first-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) sky maps. We study a variety of power spectrum estimation methods and data combinations and demonstrate that the results are…

We analyze the three-year WMAP temperature anisotropy data seeking to confirm the power spectrum and likelihoods published by the WMAP team. We apply five independent implementations of four algorithms to the power spectrum estimation and…

The cross spectrum encodes the correlated variability between two time signals. In recent years, the cross spectrum has been used to study astronomical sources, particularly in the field of X-ray timing. In the literature, it has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Edward J. R. Nathan , Adam Ingram , Daniela Huppenkothen , Matteo Bachetti , Javier A. García

Modern datasets have the precision necessary to uncover new information by including higher-order, non-Gaussian information into cosmological inference. The marked power spectrum offers access to such information while preserving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Haruki Ebina , Martin White , Edmond Chaussidon

Angular power spectra are an important measure of the angular clustering of a given distribution. In Cosmology, they are applied to such vastly different observations as galaxy surveys that cover a fraction of the sky and the Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-15 Brett Hayes , Robert Brunner , Volodymyr Kindratenko

The Quadratic Maximum Likelihood estimator can be used to reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra with minimal error bars. Still, it requires an accurate estimate of the datasets noise covariance matrix in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 S. Vanneste , S. Henrot-Versillé , T. Louis , M. Tristram

Extracting the three dimensional power spectrum from the 2D distribution of galaxies has become a standard tool of cosmology. This extraction requires some assumptions about the scaling of the power spectrum with redshift; all treatments to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Scranton , S. Dodelson

It is shown how to decorrelate the (prewhitened) power spectrum measured from a galaxy survey into a set of high resolution uncorrelated band-powers. The treatment includes nonlinearity, but not redshift distortions. Amongst the infinitely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 A. J. S. Hamilton , Max Tegmark

The marked power spectrum - a two-point correlation function of a transformed density field - has emerged as a promising tool for extracting cosmological information from the large-scale structure of the Universe. In this work, we present…

We use a Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) method to estimate the angular power spectrum of the cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background and large scale structure maps as well as their individual auto-spectra. We describe our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Schiavon , F. Finelli , A. Gruppuso , A. Marcos-Caballero , P. Vielva , R. G. Crittenden , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

The power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing will be measured to sub-percent precision with upcoming surveys, enabling tight constraints on the sum of neutrino masses and other cosmological parameters. Measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kendrick M. Smith , Blake D. Sherwin , Sigurd Naess

We derive and numerically implement an algorithm for estimating the 3D power spectrum of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) forest flux fluctuations. The algorithm exploits the unique geometry of Ly-$\alpha$ forest data to efficiently measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Andreu Font-Ribera , Patrick McDonald , Anže Slosar

Cross-spectrum analysis is a commonly-used technique for the detection of phase and amplitude noise of a signal in the presence of interfering noise. It extracts the desired correlated noise from two time series in the presence of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-20 Archita Hati , Craig W. Nelson , David A. Howe

Power-spectrum analysis is an important tool providing critical information about a signal. The range of applications includes communication-systems to DNA-sequencing. If there is interference present on a transmitted signal, it could be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Yogindra Abhyankar , Sajish C. , Yogesh Agarwal , C. R. Subrahmanya , Peeyush Prasad

The most commonly used estimators of the anisotropic galaxy power spectrum employ Fast Fourier transforms, and rely on a specific choice of the line-of-sight that breaks the symmetry between the galaxy pair. This leads to wide-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Florian Beutler , Emanuele Castorina , Pierre Zhang

The angular power spectrum C_l is extracted from the 4 year COBE DMR data with a 20 degree galactic cut, using the narrowest window functions possible. The average power in eight multipole bands is also computed, and plotted together with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Max Tegmark

In this paper, we propose & implement on WMAP 5-year data, a model independent approach of foreground power spectrum estimation for multifrequency observations of CMB experiments. Recently a model independent approach of CMB power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Tuhin Ghosh , Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

We propose a hybrid quadratic estimator to measure cross correlations between gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and differential screening effects arising from fluctuations in the electron column density, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

Using a set of multifrequency cross spectra computed from the 3 year WMAP sky maps, we fit for the unresolved point-source contribution. For a white-noise power spectrum, we find a Q-band amplitude of A=0.011 +/- 0.001 muK^2 sr (antenna…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. M. Huffenberger , H. K. Eriksen , F. K. Hansen

We examine power spectrum estimation from wide-sense stationary signals received at different wireless sensors. We organize multiple sensors into several groups, where each group estimates the temporal correlation only at particular lags,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Dyonisius Dony Ariananda , Daniel Romero , Geert Leus