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We construct a pseudospectral method for the solution of time-dependent, non-linear partial differential equations on a three-dimensional spherical shell. The problem we address is the treatment of tensor fields on the sphere. As a test…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Bernd Bruegmann

A fast and exact algorithm is developed for the spin +-2 spherical harmonics transforms on equi-angular pixelizations on the sphere. It is based on the Driscoll and Healy fast scalar spherical harmonics transform. The theoretical exactness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vandergheynst

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

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 this paper we describe the spherical harmonic transit telescope, a novel formalism for the analysis of transit radio telescopes. This all-sky approach bypasses the curved sky complications of traditional interferometry and so is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 J. Richard Shaw , Kris Sigurdson , Ue-Li Pen , Albert Stebbins , Michael Sitwell

Light pollution poses a growing threat to optical astronomy, in addition to its detrimental impacts on the natural environment, the intangible heritage of humankind related to the contemplation of the starry sky and, potentially, on human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Salvador Bará , Fabio Falchi , Riccardo Furgoni , Raul C. Lima

Synchrosqueezing transform (SST) is a useful tool for vibration signal analysis due to its high time-frequency (TF) concentration and reconstruction properties. However, existing SST requires much processing time for large-scale data. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Dong He , Hongrui Cao

We present the generalized iterative residual fitting (IRF) for the computation of the spherical harmonic transform (SHT) of band-limited signals on the sphere. The proposed method is based on the partitioning of the subspace of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Usama Elahi , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time ($\simeq$15 seconds) proposed, the…

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 introduce a novel strategy for cosmological Boltzmann codes leading to an increase in speed by a factor of \sim 30 for small scale Fourier modes. We (re-)investigate the tight coupling approximation and obtain analytic formulae reaching…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Doran

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

We have developed an algorithm for transferring radiation in three-dimensional space. The algorithm computes radiation source and sink terms using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method, based on a formulation in which the integral of any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Renyue Cen

A rapid algorithm is derived for the Helmholtz--Hodge decomposition on the surface of the sphere in spherical coordinates. The algorithm uncouples modes of spherical harmonics with different absolute order, writes the conversion as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Julien Molina , Richard Mikael Slevinsky

We present a harmonic model for the data analysis of an all-sky cosmic microwave background survey, such as Planck, where the survey is obtained through ring-scans of the sky. In this model, resampling and pixelisation of the data are…

We study accuracy, robustness and self-consistency of pixel-domain simulations of the gravitational lensing effect on the primordial CMB anisotropies due to the large-scale structure of the Universe. In particular, we investigate dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Giulio Fabbian , Radek Stompor

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

Discrete transforms such as the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and the discrete Hartley transform (DHT) are important tools in numerical analysis. The successful application of transform techniques relies on the existence of efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-02-06 H. M. de Oliveira , R. J. Cintra , R. M. Campello de Souza

The plane wave method is most widely used for solving the Kohn-Sham equations in first-principles materials science computations. In this procedure, the three-dimensional (3-dim) trial wave functions' fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xingyu Gao , Zeyao Mo , Jun Fang , Han Wang

In this letter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT)-enhanced low-complexity super-resolution sensing algorithm for near-field source localization with both angle and range estimation is proposed. Most traditional near-field source localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yuxiao Wu , Huizhi Wang , Yong Zeng