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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 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

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

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

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

We propose a Gauss-Legendre quadrature based sampling on the rotation group for the representation of a band-limited signal such that the Fourier transform (FT) of a signal can be exactly computed from its samples. Our figure of merit is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zubair Khalid , Salman Durrani , Rodney A. Kennedy , Yves Wiaux , Jason D. McEwen

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

Vector spherical harmonics on the unit sphere of $\mathbb{R}^3$ have broad applications in geophysics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. In the representation of a tangent vector field, one needs to evaluate the expansion and the Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Quoc T. Le Gia , Ming Li , Yu Guang Wang

We demonstrate a fast spin-s spherical harmonic transform algorithm, which is flexible and exact for band-limited functions. In contrast to previous work, where spin transforms are computed independently, our algorithm permits the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-22 K. M. Huffenberger , B. D. Wandelt

Earth system models (ESMs) are fundamental for understanding Earth's complex climate system. However, the computational demands and storage requirements of ESM simulations limit their utility. For the newly published CESM2-LENS2 data, which…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-27 Yan Song , Zubair Khalid , Marc G. Genton

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

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

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

For the representation of spin-$s$ band-limited functions on the sphere, we propose a sampling scheme with optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of freedom of the function in harmonic space. In comparison to the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Usama Elahi , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

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 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

Many areas of science and engineering encounter data defined on spherical manifolds. Modelling and analysis of spherical data often necessitates spherical harmonic transforms, at high degrees, and increasingly requires efficient computation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

Spherical harmonics are a favorable technique for 3D representation, employing a frequency-based approach through the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Typically, SHT is performed using equiangular sampling grids. However, these grids are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zikuan Li , Anyi Huang , Wenru Jia , Qiaoyun Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang

A rapid transformation is derived between spherical harmonic expansions and their analogues in a bivariate Fourier series. The change of basis is described in two steps: firstly, expansions in normalized associated Legendre functions of all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Richard Mikael Slevinsky

We describe an algorithm for the application of the forward and inverse spherical harmonic transforms. It is based on a new method for rapidly computing the forward and inverse associated Legendre transforms by hierarchically applying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 James Bremer , Ze Chen , Haizhao Yang
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