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We present a catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12. We use various supervised learning algorithms to calculate redshifts using photometric attributes on a spectroscopic training…

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We analyze the small-scale clustering in "MegaZ-LRG", a large photometric-redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies extracted from the imaging dataset of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. MegaZ-LRG, presented in a companion paper, spans the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Chris Blake , Adrian Collister , Ofer Lahav

We apply Bayesian statistics with prior probabilities of galaxy surface luminosity (SL) to improve photometric redshifts. We apply the method to a sample of 1266 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the GOODS North and South fields at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lifang Xia , Seth Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Norman Grogin , Nimish P. Hathi , Rogier A. Windhorst , Nor Pirzkal , Chun Xu

In this paper, we present the methodology of photometric redshift determination with the BATC 15-color system by using hyperz program. Both simulated galaxies and real galaxies with known redshifts were used to estimate the accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lifang Xia , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Hong Wu , Wei-Hsin Sun , Zhaoji Jiang , Suijian Xue , Jiansheng Chen , Wenping Chen

We present a catalog of 5598 ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates with effective radius $r_e > 5.3$ arcsec distributed throughout the southern portion of the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey covering $\sim$ 15000 deg$^2$. The catalog is most…

Discrepancies between cosmological parameter estimates from cosmic shear surveys and from recent Planck cosmic microwave background measurements challenge the ability of the highly successful $\Lambda$CDM model to describe the nature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Maximilian Autenrieth , Angus H. Wright , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , David C. Stenning , Benjamin Joachimi

Large imaging surveys will rely on photometric redshifts (photo-z's), which are typically estimated through machine learning methods. Currently planned spectroscopic surveys will not be deep enough to produce a representative training…

We present the results of a photometric redshift analysis designed to identify z>6 galaxies from the near-IR HST imaging in three deep fields (HUDF, HUDF09-2 & ERS). By adopting a rigorous set of criteria for rejecting low-z interlopers,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , L. de Ravel , M. Cirasuolo , R. S. Ellis , M. Schenker , B. E. Robertson , A. M. Koekemoer , D. P. Stark , R. A. A. Bowler

We discuss a method to build up and study a sample of distant galaxies, with 2<z<5, using the gravitational amplification effect in cluster-lenses for which the mass distribution is well known. The candidates are selected close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Pello , J. P. Kneib , G. Bruzual , J. M. Miralles

We present a new non-parametric method to quantify morphologies of galaxies based on a particular family of learning machines called support vector machines. The method, that can be seen as a generalization of the classical CAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Huertas-Company , D. Rouan , L. Tasca , G. Soucail , O. Le Fevre

Machine learning techniques offer a plethora of opportunities in tackling big data within the astronomical community. We present the set of Generalized Linear Models as a fast alternative for determining photometric redshifts of galaxies, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

Precision-era optical cluster cosmology calls for a precise definition of the red sequence (RS), consistent across redshift. To this end, we present the Red Dragon algorithm: an error-corrected multivariate Gaussian mixture model (GMM).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 William K. Black , August Evrard

In the era of large sky surveys, photometric redshifts (photo-z) represent crucial information for galaxy evolution and cosmology studies. In this work, we propose a new Machine Learning (ML) tool called Galaxy morphoto-Z with neural…

We perform an analysis of photometric redshifts estimated by using a non-representative training sets in magnitude space. We use the ANNz2 and GPz algorithms to estimate the photometric redshift both in simulations as well as in real data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-12 J. D. Rivera , B. Moraes , A. I. Merson , S. Jouvel , F. B. Abdalla , M. C. B Abdalla

We conduct a comprehensive study of the effects of incorporating galaxy morphology information in photometric redshift estimation. Using machine learning methods, we assess the changes in the scatter and catastrophic outlier fraction of…

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…

To address the challenge of estimating redshifts when only single-band images are available, this study introduces a deep learning model named ViT-MDNz. Leveraging robust statistical priors learned from large-scale data concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Zhijian Luo , Yangyang Li , Jianzhen Chen , Qishen Cao , Duo Cao , Shaohua Zhang , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

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…

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) are promising probes for clustering measurements at high redshift, $z>2$, a region only covered so far by Lyman-$\alpha$ forest measurements. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of selecting LBGs by…