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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

This work is part of a series establishing the redshift framework for the $3\times2$pt analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6). For DES Y6, photometric redshift distributions are estimated using self-organizing maps (SOMs),…

We present a catalog of 1.4 million photometrically-selected quasar candidates in the southern hemisphere over the $\sim 5000\,{\rm deg^2}$ Dark Energy Survey (DES) wide survey area. We combine optical photometry from the DES second data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Qian Yang , Yue Shen

Determining photometric redshifts to high accuracy is paramount to measure distances in wide-field cosmological experiments. With only photometric information at hand, photo-zs are prone to systematic uncertainties in the intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Z. Ansari , A. Agnello , C. Gall

Accurate weak-lensing analysis requires not only accurate measurement of galaxy shapes but also precise and unbiased measurement of galaxy redshifts. The photometric redshift technique appears as the only possibility to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Jouvel , J-P. Kneib , G. Bernstein , O. Ilbert , P. Jelinsky , B. Milliard , A. Ealet , C. Schimd , T. Dahlen , S. Arnouts

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a curated data set derived from DES Data Release 2 (DR2) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 K. Bechtol , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , A. Drlica-Wagner , B. Yanny , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , E. S. Rykoff , J. De Vicente , M. Adamow , D. Anbajagane , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Gschwend , M. Gorsuch , W. G. Hartley , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , R. Kron , T. A. Manning , J. O'Donnell , A. Pieres , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Tabbutt , L. Toribio San Cipriano , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcón , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , P. H. Bernardinelli , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , N. Jeffrey , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , Y. Zhang

In this paper we introduce the \textsc{Deepz} deep learning photometric redshift (photo-$z$) code. As a test case, we apply the code to the PAU survey (PAUS) data in the COSMOS field. \textsc{Deepz} reduces the $\sigma_{68}$ scatter…

Shear peak statistics has gained a lot of attention recently as a practical alternative to the two point statistics for constraining cosmological parameters. We perform a shear peak statistics analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

Precision photometric redshifts will be essential for extracting cosmological parameters from the next generation of wide-area imaging surveys. In this paper we introduce a photometric redshift algorithm, ArborZ, based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-06 David W. Gerdes , Adam J. Sypniewski , Timothy A. McKay , Jiangang Hao , Matthew R. Weis , Risa H. Wechsler , Michael T. Busha

Weak gravitational lensing is a valuable probe of galaxy formation and cosmology. Here we quantify the effects of using photometric redshifts (photo-z) in galaxy-galaxy lensing, for both sources and lenses, both for the immediate goal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Nakajima , R. Mandelbaum , U. Seljak , J. D. Cohn , R. Reyes , R. Cool

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

We describe updates to the \redmapper{} algorithm, a photometric red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed for large photometric surveys. The updated algorithm is applied to $150\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ of Science Verification (SV) data…

We investigate the expected accuracy of redshifts that can be obtained using low-resolution spectroscopic (medium-band) data from the 7-Dimensional Sky Survey (7DS). By leveraging 40 densely sampled filters with widths of full width at half…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Eunhee Ko , Myungshin Im , Yujin Yang , Ji Hoon Kim , Seong-Kook Lee , Gregory S. -H. Paek

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of the southern sky in five optical bands (g,r,i,z,Y) to a depth…

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…

We use N-body-spectro-photometric simulations to investigate the impact of incompleteness and incorrect redshifts in spectroscopic surveys to photometric redshift training and calibration and the resulting effects on cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Carlos E. Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Huan Lin , Michael T. Busha , Risa H. Wechsler

Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe our object selection,…

We present a study of photometric redshift performance for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. Using two multi-wavelength datasets, over the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Bo\"otes and COSMOS fields,…