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Modern galaxy surveys produce redshift probability density functions (PDFs) in addition to traditional photometric redshift (photo-$z$) point estimates. However, the storage of photo-$z$ PDFs may present a challenge with increasingly large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 A. I. Malz , P. J. Marshall , S. J. Schmidt , M. L. Graham , J. DeRose , R. Wechsler

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

Context. Most observational results on the high redshift restframe UV-bright galaxies are based on samples pinpointed using the so called dropout technique or Ly-alpha selection. However, the availability of multifilter data allows now…

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

We use multi-band optical and near-infrared photometric observations of galaxies in the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) to predict photometric redshifts using artificial neural networks. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Derek Wilson , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray , Boris Häußler

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 Galaxy Sample, we explore photometric morphology classification and redshift estimation of galaxies using photometric data and known spectroscopic redshifts. An unsupervised method,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Zhang , Lili Li , Yongheng Zhao

Accurate photometric redshifts are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for photometric redshift estimation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Sam N. Lindsay , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

We describe a new method for measuring the true redshift distribution of any set of objects studied only photometrically. The angular cross-correlation between objects in a photometric sample with objects in some spectroscopic sample as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey A. Newman

Photometric redshift estimation plays a crucial role in modern cosmological surveys for studying the universe's large-scale structures and the evolution of galaxies. Deep learning has emerged as a powerful method to produce accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 R. Ait-Ouahmed , S. Arnouts , J. Pasquet , M. Treyer , E. Bertin

We determine the accuracy of galaxy redshift distributions as estimated from photometric redshift probability distributions $p(z)$. Our method utilises measurements of the angular cross-correlation between photometric galaxies and an…

We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle

We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin , Erin S. Sheldon

We present METAPHOR (Machine-learning Estimation Tool for Accurate PHOtometric Redshifts), a method able to provide a reliable PDF for photometric galaxy redshifts estimated through empirical techniques. METAPHOR is a modular workflow,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Valeria Amaro , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Civita Vellucci , Crescenzo Tortora , Giuseppe Longo

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field in the universe is a fundamental property that plays an essential role in cosmology for estimates such as gravitational weak lensing, non-linear clustering,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Franco D. Albareti

For more that seventy years, the measurements of fluxes of galaxies at different wavelengths and derived colours have been used to estimate their corresponding cosmological distances. From the fields of galaxy and AGN evolution to precision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Mara Salvato , Olivier Ilbert , Ben Hoyle

Studies of cosmology, galaxy evolution, and astronomical transients with current and next-generation wide-field imaging surveys like the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are all critically dependent on estimates of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Yao-Yuan Mao , Markus Michael Rau , Rongpu Zhou

We use the spherical collapse (SC) approximation to derive expressions for the smoothed redshift-space probability distribution function (PDF), as well as the $p$-order hierarchical amplitudes $S_p$, in both real and redshift space. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert J. Scherrer , Enrique Gaztanaga

The analysis of weak gravitational lensing in wide-field imaging surveys is considered to be a major cosmological probe of dark energy. Our capacity to constrain the dark energy equation of state relies on the accurate knowledge of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Euclid Collaboration , O. Ilbert , S. de la Torre , N. Martinet , A. H. Wright , S. Paltani , C. Laigle , I. Davidzon , E. Jullo , H. Hildebrandt , D. C. Masters , A. Amara , C. J. Conselice , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , R. Azzollini , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , S. Borgani , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , A. Cappi , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , A. Costille , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , D. Di Ferdinando , F. Dubath , C. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Fabricius , S. Farrens , P. G. Ferreira , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , G. Gozaliasl , J. Graciá-Carpio , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , C. C. Kirkpatrick , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , R. Benton Metcalf , M. Moresco , B. Morin , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. Niemi , J. Nightingale , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , L. Patrizii , K. Pedersen , R. Pello , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , D. Potter , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , V. Scottez , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , F. Sureau , P. Tallada Crespí , M. Tenti , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , A. Tramacere , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , J. Weller , L. Whittaker , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca