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%% pix2alm 
% Find spherical harmonic decomposition of function on sphere

%% Syntax
%  alm = pix2alm(v)
%  alm = pix2alm(v, lmax)

%% Input Arguments
%  v       array of pixel values
%  lMax    (optional) max order of harmonic to calculate
%
%  nPix = numel(v), with nPix = 12*nSide^2 for nSide a power of 2. 
%  lMax defaults to 2*floor(nSide/3)

%% Return Arguments
%  alm     coefficients of spherical harmonic expansion

%% Description
% Let $x_k$ denote the location of pixel $k$ and $v_k$ the function value
% at $x_k$. Then
%
% $$alm(j) = \frac{4\pi}{N}\sum_{k=0}^{N-1} Y_{LM}^{\dagger}(x_k) v_k$$
%
% where $j=(L+1)^2+M-L$ and $N$ is the number of pixels (12*nSide^2)

%% Example
% estimate alm of dummy data
ns = 2^4;
np = 12*ns^2;
v = ylm(ns,1,1) + ylm(ns,2,-2) + ylm(ns,3,0) + rand(1,np)/10; 
lMax = 4;
alm = pix2alm(v,lMax);
for L = 0:3
  fprintf('L = %d: ',L);
  fprintf('%7.3f ',abs(alm((L+1)^2+(-L:L)-L)));
  fprintf('\n');
end

%% See also
% alm2pix

%% Requires
% ylm

%%
% Copyright 2010-2011 Lee Samuel Finn. <mealpix_notices.html Terms of Use>.