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Optimal Estimation of the Binned Mask-Free Power Spectrum, Bispectrum, and Trispectrum on the Full Sky: Tensor Edition
Oliver H. E. Philcox
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We derive optimal estimators for the binned two-, three-, and four-point correlators of statistically isotropic tensor fields defined on the sphere, in the presence of arbitrary beams, inpainting, and masking. This is a conceptually straightforward extension of the associated scalar field Philcox (2023), but upgraded to include spin-2 fields such as Cosmic Microwave Background polarization and galaxy shear, and parity-violating physics in all correlators. All estimators can be realized using spin-weighted spherical harmonic transforms and Monte Carlo summation and are are implemented in the public code PolyBin, with computation scaling, at most, with the total number of bins. We perform a suite of validation tests verifying that the estimators are unbiased and, in limiting regimes, minimum variance. These facilitate general binned analyses of higher-point functions, and allow constraints to be placed on various phenomena, such as non-separable inflationary physics (novelly including polarized trispectra), non-linear evolution in the late Universe, and cosmic parity-violation.
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