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We apply instance-based machine learning in the form of a k-nearest neighbor algorithm to the task of estimating photometric redshifts for 55,746 objects spectroscopically classified as quasars in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital…

We describe a new method of combining optical and infrared photometry to select Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) at redshifts $z > 0.6$. We explore this technique using a combination of optical photometry from CFHTLS and HST, infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-27 Abhishek Prakash , Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman , Sandhya M. Rao

Accurate and reliable photometric redshift determination is one of the key aspects for wide-field photometric surveys. Determination of photometric redshift for galaxies, has been traditionally solved by use of machine-learning and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 M. Garcia-Fernandez

We report the first analytical expression purely constructed by a machine to determine photometric redshifts ($z_{\rm phot}$) of galaxies. A simple and reliable functional form is derived using $41,214$ galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Krone-Martins , E. E. O. Ishida , R. S. de Souza

Several papers have recently highlighted the possibility of measuring redshift space distortions from angular auto-correlations of galaxies in photometric redshift bins. In this work we extend this idea to include as observables the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Jacobo Asorey , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

We develop a statistical estimator to infer the redshift probability distribution of a photometric sample of galaxies from its angular cross-correlation in redshift bins with an overlapping spectroscopic sample. This estimator is a minimum…

In this work, we explore methods to improve galaxy redshift predictions by combining different ground truths. Traditional machine learning models rely on training sets with known spectroscopic redshifts, which are precise but only represent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Jonathan Soriano , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Tuan Do

Accurate photometric redshifts are calculated for nearly 200,000 galaxies to a 4.5 micron flux limit of ~13 uJy in the 8.5 deg^2 Spitzer/IRAC Shallow survey. Using a hybrid photometric redshift algorithm incorporating both neural-net and…

Accurate photometric redshifts are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for photometric redshift estimation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Sam N. Lindsay , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, we need to correct fluxes for the change of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called $k$-corrections. At redshifts $z>0.3$, the wavelength shift…

Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

We present a dataset built for machine learning applications consisting of galaxy photometry, images, spectroscopic redshifts, and structural properties. This dataset comprises 286,401 galaxy images and photometry from the Hyper-Suprime-Cam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Evan Jones , Yun Qi Li , Kevin Alfaro

We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin , Erin S. Sheldon

We release photometric redshifts, reaching $\sim$0.7, for $\sim$14M galaxies at $r\leq 20$ in the 11,500 deg$^2$ of the SDSS north and south galactic caps. These estimates were inferred from a convolution neural network (CNN) trained on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 M. Treyer , R. Ait-Ouahmed , J. Pasquet , S. Arnouts , E. Bertin , D. Fouchez

We apply a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify and detect quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 and also to predict the photometric redshifts of quasars. The network takes the variability of objects into account by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Johanna Pasquet-Itam , Jérôme Pasquet

Context: In astronomy, new approaches to process and analyze the exponentially increasing amount of data are inevitable. While classical approaches (e.g. template fitting) are fine for objects of well-known classes, alternative techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 S. D. Kügler , K. Polsterer , M. Hoecker

We investigate the potential and accuracy of clustering-based redshift estimation using the method proposed by M\'enard et al. (2013). This technique enables the inference of redshift distributions from measurements of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel J. Schmidt , Christopher B. Morrison

Using the Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), we have completed a near-infrared spectroscopic survey for K-bright galaxies at z~2.3, selected from the MUSYC survey. We derived spectroscopic redshifts from emission lines or from…

Based on the SDSS and SDSS-WISE quasar datasets, we put forward two schemes to estimate the photometric redshifts of quasars. Our schemes are based on the idea that the samples are firstly classified into subsamples by a classifier and then…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Yanxia Zhang , Jingyi Zhang , Xin Jin , Yongheng Zhao