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We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

We present a study of photometric redshift accuracy in the 3D-HST photometric catalogs, using 3D-HST grism redshifts to quantify and dissect trends in redshift accuracy for galaxies brighter than $H_{F140W}<24$ with an unprecedented and…

Much of the science that is made possible by multiwavelength redshift surveys requires the use of photometric redshifts. But as these surveys become more ambitious, and as we seek to perform increasingly accurate measurements, it becomes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Ryan F. Quadri , Rik J. Williams

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts

In the upcoming era of high-precision galaxy surveys, it becomes necessary to understand the impact of redshift uncertainties on cosmological observables. In this paper we explore the effect of sub-percent photometric redshift errors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Jonás Chaves-Montero , Raúl E. Angulo , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo

Weak gravitational lensing surveys using photometric redshifts can have their cosmological constraints severely degraded by errors in the photo-z scale. We explore the cosmological degradation vs the size of the spectroscopic survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zhaoming Ma , Gary Bernstein

We investigate the impact of statistical and systematic errors on measurements of linear redshift-space distortions (RSD) in future cosmological surveys, analyzing large catalogues of dark-matter halos from the BASICC simulation. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Davide Bianchi , Luigi Guzzo , Enzo Branchini , Elisabetta Majerotto , Sylvain de la Torre , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Raul E. Angulo

The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric redshift distributions is therefore critical for Euclid,…

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

We use N-body-spectro-photometric simulations to investigate the impact of incompleteness and incorrect redshifts in spectroscopic surveys to photometric redshift training and calibration and the resulting effects on cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Carlos E. Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Huan Lin , Michael T. Busha , Risa H. Wechsler

The technique of estimating redshifts using photometric rather than spectroscopic observations has recently received great attention due to its simplicity and the accuracy of the results obtained. In this work, we estimate photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kitsionas , E. Hatziminaoglou , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Georgakakis , O. Giannakis

Spectroscopic redshift errors, including redshift uncertainty and catastrophic failures, can bias cosmological measurements from galaxy redshift surveys at sub-percent level. In this work, we investigate their impact on the full-shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shengyu He , Jiaxi Yu , Antoine Rocher , Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Jean-Paul Kneib , Cheng Zhao , Etienne Burtin , Jiamin Hou

Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of photometric redshift errors and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hiroaki Oyaizu , Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Huan Lin , Joshua Frieman

The uncertainty in the redshift distributions of galaxies has a significant potential impact on the cosmological parameter values inferred from multi-band imaging surveys. The accuracy of the photometric redshifts measured in these surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-05 Augusta Abrahamse , Lloyd Knox , Samuel Schmidt , Paul Thorman , J. Anthony Tyson , Hu Zhan

In this paper we present and characterize a nearest-neighbors color-matching photometric redshift estimator that features a direct relationship between the precision and accuracy of the input magnitudes and the output photometric redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Melissa L. Graham , Andrew J. Connolly , Željko Ivezić , Samuel J. Schmidt , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Jurić , Scott F. Daniel , Peter Yoachim

A goal of forthcoming imaging surveys is to use weak gravitational lensing shear measurements to constrain dark energy. We quantify the importance of uncalibrated photometric redshift outliers to the dark energy goals of forthcoming imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Zhaoming Ma , Dragan Huterer

We forecast the ability of bispectrum estimators to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity using future photometric galaxy redshift surveys. A full-sky survey with photometric redshift resolution of $\sigma_z/(1+z)=0.05$ in the redshift range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Julius Wons , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Jan Hamann , Matthew C. Johnson

We study the sensitivity of weak lensing surveys to the effects of catastrophic redshift errors - cases where the true redshift is misestimated by a significant amount. To compute the biases in cosmological parameters, we adopt an efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Gary Bernstein , Dragan Huterer

This letter studies the synchrophasor measurement error of electric power distribution systems with on-line and off-line measurements using graphical and numerical tests. It demonstrates that the synchrophasor measurement error follows a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Can Huang , Charanraj A. Thimmisetty , Xiao Chen , Mert Korkali , Vaibhav Donde , Emma Stewart , Philip Top , Charles Tong , Liang Min

We present forecast results for constraining the primordial non-Gaussianity from photometric surveys through a large-scale enhancement of the galaxy clustering amplitude. In photometric surveys, the distribution of observed galaxies at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Tomohiro Okamura , Atsushi Taruya

Accurate photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimates are essential to the cosmological science goals of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In this work we use simulated photometry for mock galaxy catalogs…

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