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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

We present measurements of the redshift-dependent clustering of a DESI-like luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample selected from the Legacy Survey imaging dataset, and use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to fit the clustering…

We present results of using individual galaxies' redshift probability information derived from a photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithm, SPIDERz, to identify potential catastrophic outliers in photometric redshift determinations. By using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-07 Evan Jones , J. Singal

We introduce Z-Sequence, a novel empirical model that utilises photometric measurements of observed galaxies within a specified search radius to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxy clusters. Z-Sequence itself is composed of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-26 Matthew C. Chan , John P. Stott

The technique of photometric redshifts has become essential for the exploitation of multi-band extragalactic surveys. While the requirements on photo-zs for the study of galaxy evolution mostly pertain to the precision and to the fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Euclid Collaboration , Stéphane Paltani , J. Coupon , W. G. Hartley , A. Alvarez-Ayllon , F. Dubath , J. J. Mohr , M. Schirmer , J. -C. Cuillandre , G. Desprez , O. Ilbert , K. Kuijken , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , S. V. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. -M. Niemi , J. Nightingale , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , C. Surace , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , S. Bardelli , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Farina , J. Graciá-Carpio , V. Lindholm , D. Maino , N. Mauri , C. Neissner , V. Scottez , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. Biviano , A. Blanchard , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , G. Castignani , K. Chambers , A. R. Cooray , H. M. Courtois , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , J. A. Escartin , S. Escoffier , F. Finelli , S. Fotopoulou , K. Ganga , K. George , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , I. Hook , A. Jimenez Muñoz , B. Joachimi , V. Kansal , E. Keihanen , C. C. Kirkpatrick , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , R. Maoli , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , L. Patrizii , J. E. Pollack , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , L. Pozzetti , M. Pöntinen , P. Reimberg , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , J. Steinwagner , R. Teyssier , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , S. E. van Mierlo , A. Veropalumbo , M. Viel , J. R. Weaver

In cosmological analyses, precise redshift determination remains pivotal for understanding cosmic evolution. However, with only a fraction of galaxies having spectroscopic redshifts (spec-$z$s), the challenge lies in estimating redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Anjitha John William , Priyanka Jalan , Maciej Bilicki , Wojciech A. Hellwing

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

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) are crucial for the cosmology, galaxy evolution, and transient science drivers of next-generation imaging facilities like the Euclid Mission, the Rubin Observatory, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Emma R. Moran , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey

Proposed cosmological surveys will make use of photometric redshifts of galaxies that are significantly fainter than any complete spectroscopic redshift surveys that exist to train the photo-z methods. We investigate the photo-z biases that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. J. MacDonald , Gary Bernstein

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…

Computing photo-z for AGN is challenging, primarily due to the interplay of relative emissions associated with the SMBH and its host galaxy. SED fitting methods, effective in pencil-beam surveys, face limitations in all-sky surveys with…

Precision photometric redshifts will be essential for extracting cosmological parameters from the next generation of wide-area imaging surveys. In this paper we introduce a photometric redshift algorithm, ArborZ, based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-06 David W. Gerdes , Adam J. Sypniewski , Timothy A. McKay , Jiangang Hao , Matthew R. Weis , Risa H. Wechsler , Michael T. Busha

We use the photometric redshift method of Chakrabarti & McKee (2008) to infer photometric redshifts of submillimeter galaxies with far-IR (FIR) $\it{Herschel}$ data obtained as part of the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) program. For the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Benjamin Magnelli , Christopher F. McKee , Dieter Lutz , Stefano Berta , Paola Popesso , Francesca Pozzi

We determine the importance of redshift-dependent systematic effects in the determination of stellar masses from broad band spectral energy distributions (SEDs), using high quality kinematic and photometric data of early-type galaxies at…

The success of future large scale weak lensing surveys will critically depend on the accurate estimation of photometric redshifts of very large samples of galaxies. This in turn depends on both the quality of the photometric data and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Bordoloi , S. J. Lilly , A. Amara , P. A. Oesch , S. Bardelli , E. Zucca , D. Vergani , T. Nagao , T. Murayama , Y. Shioya , Y. Taniguchi

We present a machine-learning photometric redshift analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3, using two neural-network based techniques: ANNz2 and MLPQNA. Despite limited coverage of spectroscopic training sets, these ML codes…

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

MiniJPAS is a ~1 deg^2 imaging survey of the AEGIS field in 60 bands, performed to demonstrate the scientific potential of the upcoming JPAS survey. Full coverage of the 3800-9100 \AA range with 54 narrow and 6 broad optical filters allow…

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 deep BVrIK multicolor catalog of galaxies in the field of the high redshift (z=4.7) quasar BR 1202-0725. Reliable colors have been measured for galaxies selected down to R=25. The choice of the optical filters has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Giallongo , S. D'Odorico , A. Fontana , S. Cristiani , E. Egami , E. Hu , R. G. McMahon