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Computing 3 point correlation function randoms counts without the randoms catalogue

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-05-22 v2

Abstract

As we move towards future galaxy surveys, the three-point statistics will be increasingly leveraged to enhance the constraining power of the data on cosmological parameters. An essential part of the three-point function estimation is performing triplet counts of synthetic data points in random catalogues. Since triplet counting algorithms scale at best as O(N2logN)\mathcal{O}(N^2\log N) with the number of particles and the random catalogues are typically at least 50 times denser than the data; this tends to be by far the most time-consuming part of the measurements. Here we present a simple method of computing the necessary triplet counts involving uniform random distributions through simple one-dimensional integrals. The method speeds up the computation of the three-point function by orders of magnitude, eliminating the need for random catalogues, with the simultaneous pair and triplet counting of the data points alone being sufficient.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09715,
  title  = {Computing 3 point correlation function randoms counts without the randoms catalogue},
  author = {David W. Pearson and Lado Samushia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09715},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted to MNRAS Letters

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