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Spherical top-hat window function
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Spherical top-hat window function
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2026-09-29
A
spherical top-hat
window function
averages
a
field
uniformly inside
a
sphere
of
radius
R
and gives zero
weight
outside it. Its normalized real-
space
kernel is
W
R
(
x
)
=
3/
(
4
π
R
3
)
for
∣
x
∣
≤
R
, and its
Fourier transform
is
W
R
(
k
)
=
3
(
k
R
)
3
s
i
n
(
k
R
)
−
k
R
c
o
s
(
k
R
)
.
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