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We present a method, PhotoWeb, for estimating photometric redshifts of individual galaxies, and their equivalent distance, with megaparsec and even sub-megaparsec accuracy using the Cosmic Web as a constraint over photo-z estimates.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Bahram Mobasher

We explore the accuracy of the clustering-based redshift inference within the MICE2 simulation. This method uses the spatial clustering of galaxies between a spectroscopic reference sample and an unknown sample. The goal of this study is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 V. Scottez , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. Coupon , O. Ilbert , Y. Mellier

We extend existing methods for using cross-correlations to derive redshift distributions for photometric galaxies, without using photometric redshifts. The model presented in this paper simultaneously yields highly accurate and unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Marcel P. van Daalen , Martin White

At the core of the standard cosmological model lies the assumption that the redshift of distant galaxies is independent of photon wavelength. This invariance of cosmological redshift with wavelength is routinely found in all galaxy spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 I. Ferreras , I. Trujillo

More than 150 galaxies have been detected in blank-field millimetre and sub-millimetre surveys. However the redshift distribution of sub-mm galaxies remains uncertain due to the difficulty in identifying their optical-IR counterparts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Itziar Aretxaga , David H. Hughes , Edward Chapin , Enrique Gaztanaga

In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexia Gorecki , Alexandra Abate , Réza Ansari , Aurélien Barrau , Sylvain Baumont , Marc Moniez , Jean-Stéphane Ricol

We present the galaxy-galaxy angular correlations as a function of photometric redshift in a deep-wide galaxy survey centered on the Hubble Deep Field South. Images were obtained with the Big Throughput Camera on the Blanco 4m telescope at…

The aim of this paper is to investigate ways to optimize the accuracy of photometric redshifts for a SNAP like mission. We focus on how the accuracy of the photometric redshifts depends on the magnitude limit and signal-to-noise ratio,…

We present a comparison between the published optical, IR and CO spectroscopic redshifts of 86 (sub-)mm galaxies and their photometric redshifts as derived from long-wavelength radio-mm-FIR photometric data. The redshift accuracy measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Itziar Aretxaga , David H. Hughes , James S. Dunlop

We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 data. These results determine the priors of the redshift distribution of redMaGiC…

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

We present a catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts and k-corrections for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seven Data Release (SDSS-DR7), available on the World Wide Web. The photometric redshifts were estimated with an artificial neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana Laura O'Mill , Fernanda Duplancic , Diego García Lambas , Laerte Sodré

We develop a new method which measures the projected density distribution w_p(r_p)n of photometric galaxies surrounding a set of spectroscopically-identified galaxies, and simultaneously the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Wenting Wang , Y. P. Jing , Cheng Li , Teppei Okumura , Jiaxin Han

Accurately characterizing the redshift distributions of galaxies is essential for analysing deep photometric surveys and testing cosmological models. We present a technique to simultaneously infer redshift distributions and individual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Boris Leistedt , Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris

Rest-frame UV spectral lines of star-forming galaxies are systematically offset from the galaxies' systemic redshifts, probably because of large-scale outflows. We calibrate galaxy redshifts measured from rest-frame UV lines by utilizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Olivera Rakic , Joop Schaye , Charles C. Steidel , Gwen C. Rudie

We present improved methods for using stars found in astronomical exposures to calibrate both star and galaxy colors as well as to adjust the instrument flat field. By developing a spectroscopic model for the SDSS stellar locus in…

In this article we compare the cross-correlation and breakfinder techniques applied to the measurements of redshifts from low-resolution spectra. We assume spectra obtained from multinarrowband imagery, a technique for multi-object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Cabanac , E. F. Borra

We point out a new possibility to determine the average redshift distribution of a large sample of gravitational wave standard sirens, without spectroscopic follow-ups. It is based on the cross correlation between the luminosity-distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Pengjie Zhang