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We describe a new program for determining photometric redshifts, dubbed EAZY. The program is optimized for cases where spectroscopic redshifts are not available, or only available for a biased subset of the galaxies. The code combines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel B. Brammer , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Paolo Coppi

Photometric surveys produce large-area maps of the galaxy distribution, but with less accurate redshift information than is obtained from spectroscopic methods. Modern photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithms use galaxy magnitudes, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 J. Asorey , M. Carrasco Kind , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. J. Brunner , J. Thaler

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a major science project of the Space Application System of the China Manned Space Program. This survey is planned to perform both photometric imaging and slitless spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-23 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Cong K. Xu , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ran Li , Dezi Liu , Yongquan Xue , Li Cao , Xiyang Fu , Xin Zhang , Shen Wang , Hu Zhan

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) are an essential tool for galaxy evolution science with JWST. However, for deep surveys with more limited filter sets (i.e. $N_{\text{filt}} \sim6$) such as large pure parallel surveys, the most commonly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-07 Kenneth J. Duncan

We present a study of photometric redshift performance for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. Using two multi-wavelength datasets, over the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Bo\"otes and COSMOS fields,…

We outline how redshift-space distortions (RSD) can be measured from the angular correlation function w({\theta}), of galaxies selected from photometric surveys. The natural degeneracy between RSD and galaxy bias can be minimized by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ashley J Ross , Will J Percival , Martin Crocce , Anna Cabre , Enrique Gaztanaga

We use the mock catalog of galaxies, constructed based on the COSMOS galaxy catalog including information on photometric redshifts (photo-z) and SED types of galaxies, in order to study how to define a galaxy subsample suitable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Hisanori Furusawa

With the launch of eROSITA (extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array), successfully occurred on 2019 July 13, we are facing the challenge of computing reliable photometric redshifts for 3 million of active galactic nuclei…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Brescia , M. Salvato , S. Cavuoti , T. T. Ananna , G. Riccio , S. M. LaMassa , C. M. Urry , G. Longo

The upcoming galaxy large-scale surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will generate photometry for billions of galaxies. The interpretation of large-scale weak lensing maps, as well as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Alvaro Callejas-Tavera , Erik Molino-Minero-Re , Octavio Valenzuela

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

A trustworthy estimate of the redshift distribution $n(z)$ is crucial for using weak gravitational lensing and large-scale structure of galaxy catalogs to study cosmology. Spectroscopic redshifts for the dim and numerous galaxies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alex I. Malz , David W. Hogg

Stage IV cosmological surveys will map the universe with unprecedented precision, reducing statistical uncertainties to levels where unmodelled systematics can significantly bias inference. In particular, photometric redshift (photo-z)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Carolyn McDonald Mill , C. Danielle Leonard , Markus Michael Rau , Cora Uhlemann , Shahab Joudaki

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 present photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) for the deep wide fields of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), covering an area of $\sim$50 deg$^{2}$, for $\sim$1.8 million objects up to $i_{\textrm{AB}}<23$. The PAUS deep…

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo Motta , Filipe B. Abdalla , Elcio Abdalla , Gabriel S. Costa , Camila Cardoso

Although starburst galaxies have relatively flat spectral energy distributions, their strong optical emission lines and near-UV continua make it very feasible to estimate their redshifts photometrically. In this work, I describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles T. Liu

We tested the performance of photometric redshifts for galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep field down to 30th magnitude. We compared photometric redshift estimates from three spectral fitting codes from the literature (EAZY, BPZ and BEAGLE)…