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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce several billion photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s), enabling cosmological analyses to select a subset of galaxies with the most accurate photo-$z$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Adam Broussard , Eric Gawiser

Aims: We study galaxy clustering and explore the dependence of galaxy properties on the the environment up to a redshift z~1, on the basis of a deep multi-band survey in the Chandra Deep Field South. Methods: We have developed a new method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dario Trevese , Marco Castellano , Adriano Fontana , Emanuele Giallongo

Quasar photometric redshifts are essential for studying cosmology and large-scale structures. However, their complex spectral energy distributions cause significant redshift-color degeneracy, limiting the accuracy of traditional methods. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Jianzhen Chen , Zhijian Luo , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Hubing Xiao , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu

It is well known in astronomy that propagating non-Gaussian prediction uncertainty in photometric redshift estimates is key to reducing bias in downstream cosmological analyses. Similarly, likelihood-free inference approaches, which are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-16 Niccolò Dalmasso , Taylor Pospisil , Ann B. Lee , Rafael Izbicki , Peter E. Freeman , Alex I. Malz

We present a first principle approach to obtain analytical predictions for spherically-averaged cosmic densities in the mildly non-linear regime that go well beyond what is usually achieved by standard perturbation theory. A large deviation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Cora Uhlemann , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Francis Bernardeau , Paulo Reimberg

We present a new algorithm to estimate quasar photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s), by considering the asymmetries in the relative flux distributions of quasars. The relative flux models are built with multivariate Skew-t distributions in the…

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

Context. Studies of galaxy pairs can provide valuable information to jointly understand the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy groups. Consequently, taking into account the new high precision photo-z surveys, it is important to…

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

We present a catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts and k-corrections for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seven Data Release (SDSS-DR7), available on the World Wide Web. The photometric redshifts were estimated with an artificial neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana Laura O'Mill , Fernanda Duplancic , Diego García Lambas , Laerte Sodré

Powerful current and future cosmological constraints using high precision measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies and its weak gravitational lensing effects rely on accurate characterization of the redshift distributions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein

We tested the performance of photometric redshifts for galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep field down to 30th magnitude. We compared photometric redshift estimates from three spectral fitting codes from the literature (EAZY, BPZ and BEAGLE)…

Data-driven approaches play a crucial role in space computing, and our paper focuses on analyzing data to learn more about celestial objects. Photometric redshift, a measure of the shift of light towards the red part of the spectrum, helps…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Krishna Chunduri , Mithun Mahesh

The low statistical errors on cosmological parameters promised by future galaxy surveys will only be realised with the development of new, fast, analysis methods that reduce potential systematic problems to low levels. We present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rossana Ruggeri , Will Percival , Héctor Gil-Marín , Fangzhou Zhu , Gongbo Zhao , Yuting Wang

Calibrating the redshift distributions of photometric galaxy samples is essential in weak lensing studies. The self-calibration method combines angular auto- and cross-correlations between galaxies in multiple photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Haojie Xu , Pengjie Zhang , Hui Peng , Yu Yu , Le Zhang , Ji Yao , Jian Qin , Zeyang Sun , Min He , Xiaohu Yang

We introduce a new effective strategy to assign group and cluster membership probabilities $P_{mem}$ to galaxies using photometric redshift information. Large dynamical ranges both in halo mass and cosmic time are considered. The method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Gianluca Castignani , Christophe Benoist

Cross-correlations between the galaxy number density in a lensing source sample and that in an overlapping spectroscopic sample can in principle be used to calibrate the lensing source redshift distribution. In this paper, we study in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Sudeep Das

Combining different observational probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, is a promising technique for unveiling the physics of the Universe with upcoming dark energy experiments. Whilst this strategy significantly improves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

Precision cosmology requires accurate galaxy redshifts, but next generation optical surveys will observe unprecedented numbers of resolved galaxies, placing strain on the amount of spectroscopic follow-up required. We show how useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Steven Cunnington , Ian Harrison , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon
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