CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

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Nicolò Dalmasso
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CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

Post by Nicolò Dalmasso » March 20 2021

Hello everybody,

I've a question regarding the factorization that CAMB use when is calculating the angular power spectrum (Cl).
What is the correct factorization with these "counts" set to "True"?

pars.SourceTerms.counts_density = True
pars.SourceTerms.counts_redshift = True
pars.SourceTerms.counts_lensing = True

For instance I know that the correct factorization for the case:

pars.SourceTerms.counts_density = True
pars.SourceTerms.counts_redshift = True
pars.SourceTerms.counts_lensing = False

is: Cl_CAMB[i,j]= (bi*bj)*(Cl_bb[i,j]) + (fi*fj)*(Cl_ff[i,j]) + (bi*fj + bj*fi)*(Cl_bf[i,j])


Thanks in advance.

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Re: CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

Post by Antony Lewis » March 22 2021

CAMB doesn't calculate it using a factorization, it calculates a single source term include the various sources adding them, then calculate the C_l. counts_lensing includes magnification bias.

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Re: CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

Post by Nicolò Dalmasso » March 22 2021

Yes, that is for sure, but my question was:

If I want to do the reverse and reobtain the value that CAMB gives me in this particular set of parameters what is the correct factorization to use?

Like I said I know that the correct factorization to reobtain the (density,redshift) case is the one that I written before, but I'm not sure about the (density,redshift,lensing) case.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

Post by Antony Lewis » March 23 2021

You'd just have to add the auto and all the crosses for the magnification bias term.

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Re: CAMB-- Power spectrum factorization

Post by Nicolò Dalmasso » March 30 2021

Thanks!

I've tried to use:

Cl_CAMB[i,j]= (bi*bj)*(Cl_bb[i,j]) + (fi*fj)*(Cl_ff[i,j]) + (si*sj)*(Cl_ss[i,j]) + (bi*fj + bj*fi)*(Cl_bf[i,j]) + (bi*sj + bj*si)*(Cl_bs[i,j]) + (fi*sj + fj*si)*(Cl_sf[i,j])


but it seems to be incorrect and does not recreate the one calculated by CAMB, so I do not know what term I'm missing.

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