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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

Libpsht (or "library for Performant Spherical Harmonic Transforms") is a collection of algorithms for efficient conversion between spatial-domain and spectral-domain representations of data defined on the sphere. The package supports…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 Martin Reinecke

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

The Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) consists of empirical mode decomposition (EMD), which is a template-free method that represents the combination of different intrinsic modes on a time-frequency map (i.e., the Hilbert spectrum). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Chin-Ping Hu , Chien-Chang Yen , Kuo-Chuan Pan , C. Y. Hui , Kwan-Lok Li , Yu-Chiung Lin , Yi-Sheng Huang , Albert K. H. Kong

We describe S2LET, a fast and robust implementation of the scale-discretised wavelet transform on the sphere. Wavelets are constructed through a tiling of the harmonic line and can be used to probe spatially localised, scale-depended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 B. Leistedt , J. D. McEwen , P. Vandergheynst , Y. Wiaux

We accelerate the computation of spherical harmonic transforms, using what is known as the butterfly scheme. This provides a convenient alternative to the approach taken in the second paper from this series on "Fast algorithms for spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Mark Tygert

In many applications data are measured or defined on a spherical manifold; spherical harmonic transforms are then required to access the frequency content of the data. We derive algorithms to perform forward and inverse spin spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen

The Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelation (HEALPix) scheme is used extensively in astrophysics for data collection and analysis on the sphere. The scheme was originally designed for studying the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Kathryn P. Drake , Grady B. Wright

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

A fast algorithm is developed for the directional correlation of scalar band-limited signals and band-limited steerable filters on the sphere. The asymptotic complexity associated to it through simple quadrature is of order O(L^5), where 2L…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vielva , P. Vandergheynst

Spherical functions appear throughout computer graphics, from spherical harmonic lighting and precomputed radiance transfer to neural radiance fields and procedural planet rendering. Efficient evaluation is critical for real-time…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mohamed Abouagour , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

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

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 present WHFast, a fast and accurate implementation of a Wisdom-Holman symplectic integrator for long-term orbit integrations of planetary systems. WHFast is significantly faster and conserves energy better than all other Wisdom-Holman…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo
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