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The use of photometric redshifts in cosmology is increasing. Often, however these photo-zs are treated like spectroscopic observations, in that the peak of the photometric redshift, rather than the full probability density function (PDF),…

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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 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…

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We want to derive bias free, accurate photometric redshifts for those fields of the CFHTLS-Wide data which are covered in the u*, g', r', i' and z' filters and are public on January 2008. These are 37 square degrees in the W1, W3 and W4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-21 Fabrice Brimioulle , Michael Lerchster , Stella Seitz , Ralf Bender , Jan Snigula

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

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We present a new machine learning model for estimating photometric redshifts with improved accuracy for galaxies in Pan-STARRS1 data release 1. Depending on the estimation range of redshifts, this model based on neural networks can handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Arindam Fadikar , Stefan M. Wild , Jonas Chaves-Montero

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

The OmegaCAM wide-field optical imager is the sole instrument on the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory. The instrument, as well as the telescope, have been designed for surveys with very good, natural seeing-limited image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn , Konrad H. Kuijken , Edwin A. Valentijn , Danny R. Boxhoorn , Kor G. Begeman , Erik R. Deul , Ewout M. Helmich , Roeland Rengelink

The availability of large, public, multi-modal astronomical datasets presents an opportunity to execute novel research that straddles the line between science of AI and science of astronomy. Photometric redshift estimation is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Andrew Engel , Gautham Narayan , Nell Byler

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…

We investigate the impact of photometric signal-to-noise (S/N) on the precision of photometric redshifts in multi-band imaging surveys, using both simulations and real data. We simulate the optical 4-band (BVRz) Deep Lens Survey (DLS,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. E. Margoniner , D. M. Wittman

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

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

Estimating redshift is a central task in astrophysics, but its measurement is costly and time-consuming. In addition, current image-based methods are often validated on homogeneous datasets. The development and comparison of networks able…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Alessandro Meroni , Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago , Piero Fraternali

Accurate photo-z measurements are important to construct a large-scale structure map of X-ray Universe in the ongoing SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. We present machine learning Random Forest-based models for probabilistic photo-z predictions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Viktor Borisov , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov , RU eROSITA catalog group

We present AstroWISP: a collection of image processing tools for source extraction, background determination, point spread function/pixel response function fitting, and aperture photometry. AstroWISP is particularly well-suited for working…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Kaloyan Penev , Angel Romero , S. Javad Jafarzadeh , Olivier Guyon , Wilfred Gee , Preethi Krishnamoorthy

The W-CDF-S and ELAIS-S1 fields will be two of the LSST Deep Drilling fields, but the availability of spectroscopic redshifts within these two fields is still limited on deg^2 scales. To prepare for future science, we use EAZY to estimate…

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) provides a large and deep photometric catalog of galaxies in the $z'$ and $R_c$ bands for ~90 square degrees of sky, and supplemental $V$ and $B$ data have been obtained for 33.6 deg$^{2}$. We compile a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Hsieh , H. K. C. Yee , H. Lin , M. D. Gladders