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Wide field images taken in several photometric bands allow simultaneous measurement of redshifts for thousands of galaxies. A variety of algorithms to make this measurement have appeared in the last few years, the majority of which can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Juan De Vicente , Eusebio Sánchez , Ignacio Sevilla

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Improving distance measurements in large imaging surveys is a major challenge to better reveal the distribution of galaxies on a large scale and to link galaxy properties with their environments. Photometric redshifts can be efficiently…

Measuring the redshift of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) requires the use of time-consuming and expensive spectroscopic analysis. However, obtaining redshift measurements of AGNs is crucial as it can enable AGN population studies, provide…

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

Using a grid of $\sim 2$ million elements ($\Delta z = 0.005$) adapted from COSMOS photometric redshift (photo-z) searches, we investigate the general properties of template-based photo-z likelihood surfaces. We find these surfaces are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Joshua S. Speagle , Peter L. Capak , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Daniel C. Masters , Charles L. Steinhardt

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

In this work, we studied the impact of galaxy morphology on photometric redshift (photo-$z$) probability density functions (PDFs). By including galaxy morphological parameters like the radius, axis-ratio, surface brightness and the S\'ersic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 John Y. H. Soo , Benjamin Joachimi

We present a new approach to the problem of estimating the redshift of galaxies from photometric data. The approach uses a genetic algorithm combined with non-linear regression to model the 2SLAQ LRG data set with SDSS DR7 photometry. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Robert Hogan , Malcolm Fairbairn , Navin Seeburn

(abridged)Photometric redshifts for AGN (galaxies hosting an accreting supermassive black hole in their center) are notoriously challenging and currently better computed via SED fitting, assuming that deep photometry for many wavelengths is…

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) are an essential tool for galaxy evolution science with JWST. However, for deep surveys with more limited filter sets (i.e. $N_{\text{filt}} \sim6$) such as large pure parallel surveys, the most commonly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-07 Kenneth J. Duncan

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Coadd Data. We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor Error…

We present redshift probability distributions for galaxies in the SDSS DR8 imaging data. We used the nearest-neighbor weighting algorithm presented in Lima et al. 2008 and Cunha et al. 2009 to derive the ensemble redshift distribution N(z),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Erin S. Sheldon , Carlos Cunha , Rachel Mandelbaum , J. Brinkmann , Benjamin A. Weaver

Photometric redshifts will be a key data product for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as well as for future ground and space-based surveys. The need for photometric redshifts, or photo-zs, arises from sparse…

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

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 (DR6). We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor…

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

We present a new approach to automate the spectroscopic redshift reliability assessment based on machine learning (ML) and characteristics of the redshift probability density function (PDF). We propose to rephrase the spectroscopic redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Jamal , V. Le Brun , O. Le Fèvre , D. Vibert , A. Schmitt , C. Surace , Y. Copin , B. Garilli , M. Moresco , L. Pozzetti

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