Gabor Transforms on the Sphere with Applications to CMB Power Spectrum Estimation

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2002-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207464v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 336 (2002) 1304

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

37 pages, 31 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05878.x

The Fourier transform of a dataset apodised with a window function is known as the Gabor transform. In this paper we extend the Gabor transform formalism to the sphere with the intention of applying it to CMB data analysis. The Gabor coefficients on the sphere known as the pseudo power spectrum is studied for windows of different size. By assuming that the pseudo power spectrum coefficients are Gaussian distributed, we formulate a likelihood ansatz using these as input parameters to estimate the full sky power spectrum from a patch on the sky. Since this likelihood can be calculated quickly without having to invert huge matrices, this allows for fast power spectrum estimation. By using the pseudo power spectrum from several patches on the sky together, the full sky power spectrum can be estimated from full-sky or nearly full-sky observations.

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