Window convolution of the galaxy clustering bispectrum

Autor: Wang, Mike Shengbo, Beutler, Florian, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Font-Ribera, A., Gaztañaga, E., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Howlett, C., Kirkby, D., Lambert, A., Landriau, M., Miquel, R., Niz, G., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Sprayberry, D., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A.
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: In galaxy survey analysis, the observed clustering statistics do not directly match theoretical predictions but rather have been processed by a window function that arises from the survey geometry including the sky footprint, redshift-dependent background number density and systematic weights. While window convolution of the power spectrum is well studied, for the bispectrum with a larger number of degrees of freedom, it poses a significant numerical and computational challenge. In this work, we consider the effect of the survey window in the tripolar spherical harmonic decomposition of the bispectrum and lay down a formal procedure for their convolution via a series expansion of configuration-space three-point correlation functions, which was first proposed by Sugiyama et al. (2019). We then provide a linear algebra formulation of the full window convolution, where an unwindowed bispectrum model vector can be directly premultiplied by a window matrix specific to each survey geometry. To validate the pipeline, we focus on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample in the South Galactic Cap (SGC) in the redshift bin $0.4 \leqslant z \leqslant 0.6$. We first perform convergence checks on the measurement of the window function from discrete random catalogues, and then investigate the convergence of the window convolution series expansion truncated at a finite of number of terms as well as the performance of the window matrix. This work highlights the differences in window convolution between the power spectrum and bispectrum, and provides a streamlined pipeline for the latter for current surveys such as DESI and the Euclid mission.
Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures, for submission to JCAP
Databáze: arXiv