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The advent of massive broad-band photometric surveys enabled photometric redshift estimates for unprecedented numbers of galaxies and quasars. These estimates can be improved using better algorithms or by obtaining complementary data such…

The identification of physically associated kiloparsec-scale quasar pairs is important for understanding galaxy evolution, the growth of supermassive black holes, and their co-evolution with host galaxies. However, their rarity and the high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xingyu Zhu , Qihang Chen , Liang Jing , Zhuojun Deng , Jun-Qing Xia , Yanxia Zhang , Jianghua Wu

With the availability of the huge amounts of data produced by current and future large multi-band photometric surveys, photometric redshifts have become a crucial tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. In this paper we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Omar Laurino , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppe Longo , Giuseppe Riccio

The identifications of quasars in the redshift range 2.2<z<3 are known to be very inefficient as their optical colors are indistinguishable from those of stars. Recent studies have proposed to use optical variability or near-IR colors to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xue-Bing Wu , Ran Wang , Kasper B. Schmidt , Fuyan Bian , Linhua Jiang , Xiaohui Fan

It is currently unknown whether the Universe was reionized by quasars or stars at z>5. We point out that quasars can be best distinguished from stellar systems by their X-ray emission. Based on a simple hierarchical CDM model, we predict…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zoltan Haiman , Abraham Loeb

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), used as a classifier, to estimate photometric redshifts and associated probability distribution functions (PDF) for galaxies in the Main Galaxy Sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Johanna Pasquet , Emmanuel Bertin , Marie Treyer , Stéphane Arnouts , Dominique Fouchez

Broadband photometry offers a time and cost effective method to reconstruct the continuum emission of celestial objects. Thus, photometric redshift estimation has supported the scientific exploitation of extragalactic multiwavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 S. Fotopoulou , S. Paltani

We present photometric redshifts and associated probability distributions for all detected sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS). The work makes use of the most up-to-date data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Legacy…

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 are studied with a template approach using data from HDF-N and -S . The problem of aliasing in photometric redshift estimates is investigated in some detail and found not to be a significant problem if at least four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Rowan-Robinson

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

The first Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) provides extensive imaging and spectroscopic data for hundreds of millions of photometric objects across several deep fields. Accurate classifications and photometric redshifts (photo-z) for these…

In this paper, we address the problem of spectroscopic redshift estimation in Astronomy. Due to the expansion of the Universe, galaxies recede from each other on average. This movement causes the emitted electromagnetic waves to shift from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Radamanthys Stivaktakis , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Bruno Moraes , Filipe Abdalla , Jean-Luc Starck , Panagiotis Tsakalides

In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza

Photometric redshift estimation is becoming an increasingly important technique, although the currently existing methods present several shortcomings which hinder their application. Here it is shown that most of those drawbacks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Narciso Benitez

We present a novel method to identify candidate high redshift quasars (HzQs; ($z\gtrsim5.5$), which are unique probes of supermassive black hole growth in the early Universe, from large area optical/infrared photometric surveys. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 J. D. Wagenveld , A. Saxena , K. J. Duncan , H. J. A. Röttgering , M. Zhang

We present a new technique to measure multi-wavelength "Super-deblended" photometry from highly confused images, which we apply to Herschel and ground-based far-infrared (FIR) and (sub-)millimeter (mm) data in the northern field of the…

Deep Learning models have been increasingly exploited in astrophysical studies, yet such data-driven algorithms are prone to producing biased outputs detrimental for subsequent analyses. In this work, we investigate two major forms of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Q. Lin , D. Fouchez , J. Pasquet , M. Treyer , R. Ait Ouahmed , S. Arnouts , O. Ilbert