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Precision measurements of the galaxy power spectrum P(k) require a data analysis pipeline that is both fast enough to be computationally feasible and accurate enough to take full advantage of high-quality data. We present a rigorous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Andrew Hamilton , Michael Strauss , Michael Vogeley , Alexander Szalay

In measuring the power spectrum of the distribution of large numbers of dark matter particles in simulations, or galaxies in observations, one has to use Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) for calculational efficiency. However, because of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weiguang Cui , Lei Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Yu Wang , Longlong Feng , Volker Springel

$ $Future surveys could obtain tighter constraints on the cosmological parameters with the galaxy power spectrum than with the Cosmic Microwave Background. However, the inclusion of multiple overlapping tracers, redshift bins, and more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Yan Lai , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

We present optimal quadratic estimators for the Fourier analysis of cosmological surveys that detect several different types of tracers of large-scale structure. Our estimators can be used to simultaneously fit the matter power spectrum and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Raul Abramo , Lucas F. Secco , Arthur Loureiro

Upcoming surveys will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing power spectrum in exquisite detail, allowing for strong constraints on the sum of neutrino masses among other cosmological parameters. Standard CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Delon Shen , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

Rank-2 tensor fields of large-scale structure, e.g. a tensor field inferred from shapes of galaxies, open up a window to directly access 2-scalar, 2-vector and 2-tensor modes, where the scalar fields can be measured independently from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-13 Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada

Large galaxy surveys demand fast and scalable estimators for anisotropic clustering statistics beyond the monopole. We present a suite of efficient FFT-based estimators for power-spectrum and bispectrum multipoles, built upon exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yunchen Xie , Ruiyang Zhao , Gan Gu , Xiaoma Wang , Xiaoyong Mu , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Florian Beutler , John A. Peacock

The interpretation of cosmological observables requires the use of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models. Since these models are becoming computationally very expensive and display non-trivial uncertainties, the use of standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez , Raul E. Angulo , Giovanni Aricó , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Jens Stücker

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

We investigate the effect of the window function on the multipole power spectrum in two different ways. First, we consider the convolved power spectrum including the window effect, which is obtained by following the familiar (FKP) method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-15 Takahiro Sato , Gert Hütsi , Gen Nakamura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We propose a method to estimate non-Gaussian error bars on the matter power spectrum from galaxy surveys in the presence of non-trivial survey selection functions. The estimators are often obtained from formalisms like FKP and PKL, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen

Measurements of line-of-sight dependent clustering via the galaxy power spectrum's multipole moments constitute a powerful tool for testing theoretical models in large-scale structure. Recent work shows that this measurement, including a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Nick Hand , Yin Li , Zachary Slepian , Uros Seljak

We derive and implement a full Bayesian large scale structure inference method aiming at precision recovery of the cosmological power spectrum from galaxy redshift surveys. Our approach improves over previous Bayesian methods by performing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

This is the first of a pair of papers which address the problem of measuring the unredshifted power spectrum in optimal fashion from a survey of galaxies, with arbitrary geometry, for Gaussian or non-Gaussian fluctuations, in real or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. J. S. Hamilton

Cross-power spectrum is a quadratic estimator between two maps that can provide unbiased estimate of the underlying power spectrum of the correlated signals, which is therefore used for extracting the power spectrum in the WMAP data. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lung-Yih Chiang , Fei-Fan Chen

As the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is observed to higher and higher angular resolution the size of the resulting datasets becomes a serious constraint on their analysis. In particular current algorithms to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian Borrill

Cosmic microwave background studies of non-Gaussianity involving higher-order multispectra can distinguish between early universe theories that predict nearly identical power spectra. However, the recovery of higher-order multispectra is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens , Asantha Cooray , Joseph Smidt , Peter Coles , Paolo Serra

Cosmic shear is one of the most powerful probes of Dark Energy, targeted by several current and future galaxy surveys. Lensing shear, however, is only sampled at the positions of galaxies with measured shapes in the catalog, making its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Andrina Nicola , Carlos García-García , David Alonso , Jo Dunkley , Pedro G. Ferreira , Anže Slosar , David N. Spergel

Redshift-space distortions in galaxy surveys happen along the radial direction, breaking statistical translation invariance. We construct estimators for radial distortions that, using only Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) of the overdensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Roman Scoccimarro