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We present a flexible template-based photometric redshift estimation framework, implemented in C#, that can be seamlessly integrated into a SQL database (or DB) server and executed on-demand in SQL. The DB integration eliminates the need to…

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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 conduct a detailed analysis of the photometric redshift requirements for the proposed Dark Energy Survey (DES) using two sets of mock galaxy simulations and an artificial neural network code - ANNz. In particular, we examine how optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Manda Banerji , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin

The importance of photometric galaxy redshift estimation is rapidly increasing with the development of specialised powerful observational facilities. We develop a new photometric redshift estimation workflow TOPz to provide reliable and…

Various aspects of cosmology require comprehensive all-sky mapping of the cosmic web to considerable depths. In order to probe the whole extragalactic sky beyond 100 Mpc, one must draw on multiwavelength datasets and state-of-the-art…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 Maciej Bilicki

We describe the Munich Difference Imaging Analysis pipeline that we developed and implemented in the framework of the Astro-WISE package to automatically measure high precision light curves of a large number of stellar objects using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Koppenhoefer , R. P. Saglia , A. Riffeser

Astro-WISE is the Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe. It is a scientific information system which consists of hardware and software federated over about a dozen institutes throughout Europe. It has been developed to exploit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Hugo Buddelmeijer , O. Rees Williams , John P. McFarland , Andrey Belikov

We show that mid-infrared data from the all-sky WISE survey can be used as a robust photometric redshift indicator for powerful radio AGN, in the absence of other spectroscopic or multi-band photometric information. Our work is motivated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 M. Glowacki , J. R. Allison , E. M. Sadler , V. A. Moss , T. H. Jarrett

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…

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

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

The Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) is a 100-night spectroscopic survey underway on the Anglo-Australian Telescope using the fibre-fed 2-degree-field (2dF) spectrograph. We have developed a new redshifting application Marz with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-01 Samuel R. Hinton , Tamara M. Davis , Chris Lidman , Karl Glazebrook , Geraint F. Lewis

We present The-wiZZ, an open source and user-friendly software for estimating the redshift distributions of photometric galaxies with unknown redshifts by spatially cross-correlating them against a reference sample with known redshifts. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Christopher B. Morrison , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Samuel J. Schmidt , Ivan K. Baldry , Maciej Bilicki , Ami Choi , Thomas Erben , Peter Schneider

We present an updated version of MegaZ-LRG (Collister et al.,(2007)) with photometric redshifts derived with the neural network method, ANNz as well as five other publicly available photo-z codes (HyperZ, SDSS, Le PHARE, BPZ and ZEBRA) for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 Filipe B. Abdalla , Manda Banerji , Ofer Lahav , Valery Rashkov

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…

Context. Accurate photometric redshift estimation is crucial for cosmological and galaxy evolution studies, especially with the advent of large-scale photometric surveys. Aims. We developed a photo-z estimation code called TOPz (Tartu…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 E. Tempel , J. Laur , Z. R. Jones , R. Kipper , L. J. Liivamägi , D. Pandey , G. Sakteos , A. Tamm , A. N. Triantafyllaki , T. Tuvikene

The redshifts of galaxies are a key attribute that is needed for nearly all extragalactic studies. Since spectroscopic redshifts require additional telescope and human resources, millions of galaxies are known without spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , B. C. Hsieh

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts is crucial to many upcoming galaxy surveys, for example the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Almost all Rubin extragalactic and cosmological science requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Natalia Stylianou , Alex I. Malz , Peter Hatfield , John Franklin Crenshaw , Julia Gschwend

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) survey at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) will use a new optical camera (PAUCam) with a large set of narrow-band filters to perform a photometric galaxy survey with a quasi-spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Pol Martí , Ramon Miquel , Francisco J. Castander , Enrique Gaztañaga , Martin Eriksen , Carles Sánchez

Photo-z algorithms that utilize SED template fitting have matured, and are widely adopted for use on high-redshift near-infrared data that provides a unique window into the early universe. Alternative photo-z methods have been developed,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Grant Merz , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Junyao Li , Qian Yang , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , John Franklin Crenshaw