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A variety of methods have been proposed to define and to quantify galaxy environments. While these techniques work well in general with spectroscopic redshift samples, their application to photometric redshift surveys remains uncertain. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Chuan-Chin Lai , Lihwai Lin , Hung-Yu Jian , Tzi-Hong Chiueh , Alex Merson , Carlton Baugh , Sebastien Foucaud , Chin-Wei Chen , Wen-Ping Chen

We present and compare in this paper new photometric redshift catalogs of the galaxies in three public fields: the NTT Deep Field, the HDF-N and the HDF-S. Photometric redshifts have been obtained for thewhole sample, by adopting a $\chi^2$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Fontana , S. D'Odorico , F. Poli , E. Giallongo , S. Arnouts , S. Cristiani , A. Moorwood , P. Saracco

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

The uncertainty in the redshift distributions of galaxies has a significant potential impact on the cosmological parameter values inferred from multi-band imaging surveys. The accuracy of the photometric redshifts measured in these surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-05 Augusta Abrahamse , Lloyd Knox , Samuel Schmidt , Paul Thorman , J. Anthony Tyson , Hu Zhan

The observed two-point correlation functions of galaxies in redshift space become anisotropic due to the geometry of the universe as well as due to the presence of the peculiar velocity field. On the basis of linear perturbation theory, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takahiro T. Nakamura , Takahiko Matsubara , Yasushi Suto

We present a Bayesian hierarchical framework to analyze photometric galaxy survey data with stellar population synthesis (SPS) models. Our method couples robust modeling of spectral energy distributions with a population model and a noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Boris Leistedt , Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Mortlock , Joel Leja

Recent extensive, multi-color deep surveys of galaxies open a possibility to get observational estimation of sizes for the largest structures in the Universe. Photometric redshift accuracy (about 0.03(1+z)) allows directly study clustering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-16 N. V. Nabokov , Yu. V. Baryshev

The properties of galaxies in the local universe have been shown to depend upon their environment. Future large scale photometric surveys such as DES and Euclid will be vital to gain insight into the evolution of galaxy properties and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 James Etherington , Daniel Thomas

Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter density field with gravitational lensing. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 J. Myles , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , C. Sánchez , S. Everett , J. DeRose , J. McCullough , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , M. A. Troxel , S. Dodelson , A. Campos , N. MacCrann , B. Yin , M. Raveri , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , A. Choi , J. Cordero , K. Eckert , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , J. Gschwend , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , N. Kuropatkin , H. Lin , D. Masters , R. Miquel , J. Prat , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , W. Wester

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

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

We present photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) for the deep wide fields of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), covering an area of $\sim$50 deg$^{2}$, for $\sim$1.8 million objects up to $i_{\textrm{AB}}<23$. The PAUS deep…

We present the initial results from a deep, multi-band photometric survey of selected high Galactic latitude redshift fields. Previous work using the photographic data of Koo and Kron demonstrated that the distribution of galaxies in the…

One of the major science goals over the coming decade is to test fundamental physics with probes of the cosmic large-scale structure out to high redshift. Here we present a fully Bayesian approach to infer the three-dimensional cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Natalia Porqueres , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten Enßlin

Several papers have recently highlighted the possibility of measuring redshift space distortions from angular auto-correlations of galaxies in photometric redshift bins. In this work we extend this idea to include as observables the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Jacobo Asorey , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

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 measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the option to simultaneously estimate dust extinction (i.e. E(B-V))…

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts