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To fully extract cosmological information from nonlinear galaxy distribution in redshift space, it is essential to include higher-order statistics beyond the two-point correlation function. In this paper, we propose a new decomposition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Naonori S. Sugiyama , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler , Hee-Jong Seo

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

Accurate predictions for the non-linear matter power spectrum are needed to confront theory with observations in current and near future weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. We propose a computationally cheap method to create an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hans Winther , Santiago Casas , Marco Baldi , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Lucas Lombriser , Gong-Bo Zhao

We compute the full-sky angular power spectrum and bispectrum, along with their Fisher matrices, to forecast constraints on cosmological parameters for the BINGO and SKA1-MID Band 2 radio telescopes. This represents the first forecast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Rodrigo F. Pinheiro , André A. Costa , Yu Sang

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

Higher-order clustering statistics, like the galaxy bispectrum, can add complementary cosmological information to what is accessible with two-point statistics, like the power spectrum. While the standard way of measuring the bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Joyce Byun , Andrea Oddo , Cristiano Porciani , Emiliano Sefusatti

The forthcoming generation of galaxy redshift surveys will sample the large-scale structure of the Universe over unprecedented volumes with high-density tracers. This advancement will make robust measurements of three-point clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 Andrea Oddo , Emiliano Sefusatti , Cristiano Porciani , Pierluigi Monaco , Ariel G. Sánchez

Weak lensing has become an increasingly important tool in cosmology and the use of galaxy shapes to measure cosmic shear has become routine. The weak-lensing distortion tensor contains two other effects in addition to the two components of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Daniel B. Thomas , Lee Whittaker , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

We present an efficient and accurate pipeline for the analysis of the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum multipoles at one-loop order in effective field theory (EFT). We provide a systematic theory derivation based on power counting, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Thomas Bakx , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Zvonimir Vlah

Efficient computation of the angular bispectrum is an essential part of modelling large-scale structure observations, but it still remains an extremely challenging task. In this work, we compute the tree-level, unequal-time angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Zucheng Gao , Zvonimir Vlah , Anthony Challinor

We derive optimal estimators for the binned two-, three-, and four-point correlators of statistically isotropic tensor fields defined on the sphere, in the presence of arbitrary beams, inpainting, and masking. This is a conceptually…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Oliver H. E. Philcox

We perform a detailed analysis of the covariance matrix of the spherically averaged galaxy power spectrum and present a new, practical method for estimating this within an arbitrary survey without the need for running mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Cullan Howlett , Will J. Percival

We present the implementation of a fast estimator for the full dark matter bispectrum of a three-dimensional particle distribution relying on a separable modal expansion of the bispectrum. The computational cost of accurate bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 M. M. Schmittfull , D. M. Regan , E. P. S. Shellard

We measure the angular power spectrum and bispectrum of the projected overdensity of photometric DESI luminous red galaxies, and its cross-correlation with maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background lensing convergence from \planck. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Lea Harscouet , David Alonso , Andrina Nicola , Anže Slosar

We present a full $\Lambda$CDM analysis of the BOSS DR12 dataset, including information from the power spectrum multipoles, the real-space power spectrum, the reconstructed power spectrum and the bispectrum monopole. This is the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov

We propose a factorizability ansatz for angular bispectra which permits fast algorithms for forecasting, analysis, and simulation, yet is general enough to encompass many interesting CMB bispectra. We describe a suite of general algorithms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Kendrick M. Smith , Matias Zaldarriaga

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

With the use of simulated supernova catalogs, we show that the statefinder parameters turn out to be poorly and biased estimated by standard cosmography. To this end, we compute their standard deviations and several bias statistics on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Alejandro Aviles , Jaime Klapp , Orlando Luongo

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

Angular statistics of cosmological observables are hard to compute. The main difficulty is due to the presence of highly-oscillatory Bessel functions which need to be integrated over. In this paper, we provide a simple and fast method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-12 Valentin Assassi , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga