Harmonic analysis of isotropic fields on the sphere with arbitrary masks
Autor: | Gebhardt, Henry S. Grasshorn, Doré, Olivier |
---|---|
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: | |
Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/038 |
Popis: | Obtaining constraints from the largest scales of a galaxy survey is challenging due to the survey mask allowing only partial measurement of large angular modes. This scatters information from the harmonic-space 2-point function away from the diagonal and introduces coupling between modes. In this paper, we derive a custom eigenbasis adapted to any particular survey geometry so that all information is retained on the diagonal. At the expense of a somewhat complex pixel- and selection-function-window, the result is a diagonal 2-point function with a simple shot noise, and a diagonal covariance matrix in the case of a Gaussian random field. We derive the basis on the surface of a sphere, and we use it to construct a 3D spherical Fourier-Bessel power spectrum estimator assuming a survey geometry that is separable in the angular and radial directions. Comment: 31+4 pages, 13 figures |
Databáze: | arXiv |
Externí odkaz: |