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With the advent of deep photometric surveys the use of photometric redshifts, obtained with a variety of techniques, has become more and more widespread. Giving access to galaxies with a wide range of luminosities out to high redshifts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralf Kotulla , Uta Fritze

A variety of fundamental astrophysical science topics require the determination of very accurate photometric redshifts (photo-z's). A wide plethora of methods have been developed, based either on template models fitting or on empirical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Massimo Brescia , Civita Vellucci , Crescenzo Tortora , Giuseppe Longo

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated time-domain multi-band ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric survey facility under construction. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that assesses the quality of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yu Liu , Xiao-zhi Lin , Yong-quan Xue , Huynh Anh N. Le

As a contribution to the understanding of the dark energy concept, the Dark energy American French Team (DAFT, in French FADA) has started a large project to characterize statistically high redshift galaxy clusters, infer cosmological…

Determining photometric redshifts to high accuracy is paramount to measure distances in wide-field cosmological experiments. With only photometric information at hand, photo-zs are prone to systematic uncertainties in the intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Z. Ansari , A. Agnello , C. Gall

A new approach to estimating photometric redshifts - using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - is investigated. Unlike the standard template-fitting photometric redshift technique, a large spectroscopically-identified training set is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew E. Firth , Ofer Lahav , Rachel S. Somerville

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

In this paper, we present the methodology of photometric redshift determination with the BATC 15-color system by using hyperz program. Both simulated galaxies and real galaxies with known redshifts were used to estimate the accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lifang Xia , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Hong Wu , Wei-Hsin Sun , Zhaoji Jiang , Suijian Xue , Jiansheng Chen , Wenping Chen

Using a grid of $\sim 2$ million elements ($\Delta z = 0.005$) adapted from COSMOS photometric redshift (photo-z) searches, we investigate the general properties of template-based photo-z likelihood surfaces. We find these surfaces are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Joshua S. Speagle , Peter L. Capak , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Daniel C. Masters , Charles L. Steinhardt

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…

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

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo , Crescenzo Tortora

Photometric redshifts of galaxies obtained by multi-wavelength data are widely used in photometric surveys because of its high efficiency. Although various methods have been developed, template fitting is still adopted as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yicheng Li , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Zhijian Luo , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Xianmin Meng , Junhao Lu , Zhirui Tang , Pengfei Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

Photometric redshift estimation algorithms are often based on representative data from observational campaigns. Data-driven methods of this type are subject to a number of potential deficiencies, such as sample bias and incompleteness.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Nesar Ramachandra , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Alex Alarcon , Arindam Fadikar , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

(Abridged) In this paper we present photometric redshift estimates for a sample of X-ray selected sources detected in the wide field (~2 deg^2), bright [f_{X} (0.5-8 keV)~10^{-14} cgs] XMM-Newton/2dF survey. Unlike deeper X-ray samples…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Kitsionas , E. Hatziminaoglou , A. Georgakakis , I. Georgantopoulos

We use the deepest and the most comprehensive photometric data currently available for GOODS-South galaxies to measure their photometric redshifts. The photometry includes VLT/VIMOS (U-band), HST/ACS (F435W, F606W, F775W, and F850LP bands),…

We present a new algorithm to estimate quasar photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s), by considering the asymmetries in the relative flux distributions of quasars. The relative flux models are built with multivariate Skew-t distributions in the…

Wide, deep photometric surveys require robust photometric redshift estimates (photo-z's) for studies of large-scale structure. These estimates depend critically on accurate photometry. We describe the improvements to the photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Samuel J. Schmidt , Paul Thorman

Evaluating the accuracy and calibration of the redshift posteriors produced by photometric redshift (photo-z) estimators is vital for enabling precision cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics with modern wide-field photometric surveys.…

A new method is developed for estimating photometric redshifts, using realistic template SEDs, extending over four decades in wavelength (i.e from 0.05 $\mu m$ to 1 mm). The SEDs are constructed for four different spectral types of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Mobasher , P. Mazzei