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3D weak lensing with spin wavelets on the ball
We construct the spin flaglet transform, a wavelet transform to analyze spin
signals in three dimensions. Spin flaglets can probe signal content localized
simultaneously in space and frequency and, moreover, are separable so that
their angular and radial properties can be controlled independently. They are
particularly suited to analyzing of cosmological observations such as the weak
gravitational lensing of galaxies. Such observations have a unique 3D
geometrical setting since they are natively made on the sky, have spin angular
symmetries, and are extended in the radial direction by additional distance or
redshift information. Flaglets are constructed in the harmonic space defined by
the Fourier-Laguerre transform, previously defined for scalar functions and
extended here to signals with spin symmetries. Thanks to various sampling
theorems, both the Fourier-Laguerre and flaglet transforms are theoretically
exact when applied to bandlimited signals. In other words, in numerical
computations the only loss of information is due to the finite representation
of floating point numbers. We develop a 3D framework relating the weak lensing
power spectrum to covariances of flaglet coefficients. We suggest that the
resulting novel flaglet weak lensing estimator offers a powerful alternative to
common 2D and 3D approaches to accurately capture cosmological information.
While standard weak lensing analyses focus on either real or harmonic space
representations (i.e., correlation functions or Fourier-Bessel power spectra,
respectively), a wavelet approach inherits the advantages of both techniques,
where both complicated sky coverage and uncertainties associated with the
physical modeling of small scales can be handled effectively. Our codes to
compute the Fourier-Laguerre and flaglet transforms are made publicly
available.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication in PR
Asymptotic expansions and fast computation of oscillatory Hilbert transforms
In this paper, we study the asymptotics and fast computation of the one-sided
oscillatory Hilbert transforms of the form where the bar indicates the Cauchy principal value and is a
real-valued function with analytic continuation in the first quadrant, except
possibly a branch point of algebraic type at the origin. When , the
integral is interpreted as a Hadamard finite-part integral, provided it is
divergent. Asymptotic expansions in inverse powers of are derived for
each fixed , which clarify the large behavior of this
transform. We then present efficient and affordable approaches for numerical
evaluation of such oscillatory transforms. Depending on the position of , we
classify our discussion into three regimes, namely, or
, and . Numerical experiments show that the convergence
of the proposed methods greatly improve when the frequency increases.
Some extensions to oscillatory Hilbert transforms with Bessel oscillators are
briefly discussed as well.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures, 4 table
Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect. II: Finite Volume Effects
In a companion paper [quant-ph/9904013] we have investigated several
variations of Schwinger's proposed mechanism for sonoluminescence. We
demonstrated that any realistic version of Schwinger's mechanism must depend on
extremely rapid (femtosecond) changes in refractive index, and discussed ways
in which this might be physically plausible. To keep that discussion tractable,
the technical computations in that paper were limited to the case of a
homogeneous dielectric medium. In this paper we investigate the additional
complications introduced by finite-volume effects. The basic physical scenario
remains the same, but we now deal with finite spherical bubbles, and so must
decompose the electromagnetic field into Spherical Harmonics and Bessel
functions. We demonstrate how to set up the formalism for calculating Bogolubov
coefficients in the sudden approximation, and show that we qualitatively retain
the results previously obtained using the homogeneous-dielectric (infinite
volume) approximation.Comment: 23 pages, LaTeX 209, ReV-TeX 3.2, five figure
Rotation method for accelerating multiple-spherical Bessel function integrals against a numerical source function
A common problem in cosmology is to integrate the product of two or more
spherical Bessel functions (sBFs) with different configuration-space arguments
against the power spectrum or its square, weighted by powers of wavenumber.
Naively computing them scales as with the number of
configuration space arguments and the grid size, and they cannot be
done with Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs). Here we show that by rewriting the
sBFs as sums of products of sine and cosine and then using the product to sum
identities, these integrals can then be performed using 1-D FFTs with scaling. This "rotation" method has the potential to
accelerate significantly a number of calculations in cosmology, such as
perturbation theory predictions of loop integrals, higher order correlation
functions, and analytic templates for correlation function covariance matrices.
We implement this approach numerically both in a free-standing,
publicly-available \textsc{Python} code and within the larger,
publicly-available package \texttt{mcfit}. The rotation method evaluated with
direct integrations already offers a factor of 6-10 speed-up over the
naive approach in our test cases. Using FFTs, which the rotation method
enables, then further improves this to a speed-up of
over the naive approach. The rotation method should be useful in light of
upcoming large datasets such as DESI or LSST. In analysing these datasets
recomputation of these integrals a substantial number of times, for instance to
update perturbation theory predictions or covariance matrices as the input
linear power spectrum is changed, will be one piece in a Monte Carlo Markov
Chain cosmological parameter search: thus the overall savings from our method
should be significant
Theoretical analysis of the electrical aspects of the basic electro-impulse problem in aircraft de-icing applications
A method of modelling a system consisting of a cylindrical coil with its axis perpendicular to a metal plate of finite thickness, and a simple electrical circuit for producing a transient current in the coil, is discussed in the context of using such a system for de-icing aircraft surfaces. A transmission line model of the coil and metal plate is developed as the heart of the system model. It is shown that this transmission model is central to calculation of the coil impedance, the coil current, the magnetic fields established on the surfaces of the metal plate, and the resultant total force between the coil and the plate. FORTRAN algorithms were developed for numerical calculation of each of these quantities, and the algorithms were applied to an experimental prototype system in which these quantities had been measured. Good agreement is seen to exist between the predicted and measured results
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