A Visibility-based Angular Bispectrum Estimator for Radio-interferometric Data

Considering radio-interferometric observations, we present a fast and efficient estimator to compute the binned angular bispectrum (ABS) from gridded visibility data. The estimator makes use of Fast Fourier Transform techniques to compute the ABS covering all possible triangle shapes and sizes. Here...

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Main Authors: Sukhdeep Singh Gill, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sk. Saiyad Ali, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b20
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Summary:Considering radio-interferometric observations, we present a fast and efficient estimator to compute the binned angular bispectrum (ABS) from gridded visibility data. The estimator makes use of Fast Fourier Transform techniques to compute the ABS covering all possible triangle shapes and sizes. Here, we present the formalism of the estimator and validate it using simulated visibility data for the Murchison Widefield Array observations at ν  = 154.25 MHz. We find that our estimator is able to faithfully recover the ABS of the simulated sky signal with  ≈10%–15% accuracy for a wide variety of triangle shapes and sizes across the range of angular multipoles 46 ≤ ℓ ≤ 1320. In future work, we plan to apply this to actual data and also generalize it to estimate the three-dimensional redshifted 21 cm bispectrum.
ISSN:1538-4357