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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

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is crucial in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology using current and future large sky surveys. In this study, we employ Random Forest (RF), a machine learning algorithm, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junhao Lu , Zhijian Luo , Zhu Chen , Liping Fu , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Yicheng Li , Xian-Min Meng , Zhirui Tang , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

Large direct-imaging surveys usually use a template-fitting technique to estimate photometric redshifts for galaxies, which are then applied to derive important galaxy properties such as luminosities and stellar masses. These estimates can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 B. C. Hsieh , H. K. C. Yee

Supervised and unsupervised homography estimation methods depend on image pairs tailored to specific modalities to achieve high accuracy. However, their performance deteriorates substantially when applied to unseen modalities. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinkun You , Jiaxin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

Large sets of objects with spectroscopic redshift measurements will be needed for imaging dark energy experiments to achieve their full potential, serving two goals:_training_, i.e., the use of objects with known redshift to develop and…

We use simulations to demonstrate that photometric redshift "errors" can be greatly reduced by using the photometric redshift probability distribution p(z) rather than a one-point estimate such as the most likely redshift. In principle this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 D. Wittman

The currently used linear and nonlinear lens inversion techniques are based on distortion estimators whose complicated source redshift dependence makes the influence of the redshift distribution of the sources difficult to take into account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Yves Longaretti

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

The observing strategy of a galaxy survey influences the degree to which its resulting data can be used to accomplish any science goal. LSST is thus seeking metrics of observing strategies for multiple science cases in order to optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-19 Alex I. Malz , François Lanusse , John Franklin Crenshaw , Melissa L. Graham

The current role of data-driven science is constantly increasing its importance within Astrophysics, due to the huge amount of multi-wavelength data collected every day, characterized by complex and high-volume information requiring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Oleksandra Razim , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Longo

The amount, size, and complexity of astronomical data-sets and databases are growing rapidly in the last decades, due to new technologies and dedicated survey telescopes. Besides dealing with poly-structured and complex data, sparse data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Sebastian Lerch

Context. Strong lensing mass measurements require the knowledge of the redshift of both the lens and the source galaxy. Traditionally, spectroscopic redshifts are used for this purpose. Upcoming surveys, however, will lead to the discovery…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-15 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

In the modern galaxy surveys photometric redshifts play a central role in a broad range of studies, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. Using a dataset of about 25,000 galaxies from the second data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo , Mario Radovich , Nicola R. Napolitano , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci

The observational limitations of astronomical surveys lead to significant statistical inference challenges. One such challenge is the estimation of luminosity functions given redshift $z$ and absolute magnitude $M$ measurements from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chad M. Schafer

For numerous earth observation applications, one may benefit from various satellite sensors to address the reconstruction of some process or information of interest. A variety of satellite sensors deliver observation data with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ronan Fablet , Bertrand Chapron

We present zephyr, a novel method that integrates cutting-edge normalizing flow techniques into a mixture density estimation framework, enabling the effective use of heterogeneous training data for photometric redshift inference. Compared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Zechang Sun , Joshua S. Speagle , Song Huang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Zheng Cai

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

We present a new method for inferring photometric redshifts in deep galaxy and quasar surveys, based on a data driven model of latent spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and a physical model of photometric fluxes as a function of redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

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