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We describe a new test of photometric redshift performance given a spectroscopic redshift sample. This test complements the traditional comparison of redshift {\it differences} by testing whether the probability density functions $p(z)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 David Wittman , Ramya Bhaskar , Ryan Tobin

Computing photo-z for AGN is challenging, primarily due to the interplay of relative emissions associated with the SMBH and its host galaxy. SED fitting methods, effective in pencil-beam surveys, face limitations in all-sky surveys with…

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

We present photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) for the deep wide fields of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), covering an area of $\sim$50 deg$^{2}$, for $\sim$1.8 million objects up to $i_{\textrm{AB}}<23$. The PAUS deep…

Photometric surveys produce large-area maps of the galaxy distribution, but with less accurate redshift information than is obtained from spectroscopic methods. Modern photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithms use galaxy magnitudes, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 J. Asorey , M. Carrasco Kind , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. J. Brunner , J. Thaler

Forthcoming large photometric surveys for cosmology require precise and accurate photometric redshift (photo-z) measurements for the success of their main science objectives. However, to date, no method has been able to produce photo-$z$s…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Euclid Collaboration , G. Desprez , S. Paltani , J. Coupon , I. Almosallam , A. Alvarez-Ayllon , V. Amaro , M. Brescia , M. Brodwin , S. Cavuoti , J. De Vicente-Albendea , S. Fotopoulou , P. W. Hatfield , W. G. Hartley , O. Ilbert , M. J. Jarvis , G. Longo , R. Saha , J. S. Speagle , A. Tramacere , M. Castellano , F. Dubath , A. Galametz , M. Kuemmel , C. Laigle , E. Merlin , J. J. Mohr , S. Pilo , M. Salvato , M. M. Rau , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Bozzo , E. Branchini , J. Brinchmann , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , A. Cappi , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , C. S. Carvalho , R. Casas , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , G. Castignani , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , H. M. Courtois , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , S. de la Torre , H. Degaudenzi , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Douspis , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , A. Ealet , G. Fabbian , M. Fabricius , S. Farrens , P. G. Ferreira , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , G. Gozaliasl , J. Graciá-Carpio , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , M. Hailey , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Humphrey , K. Jahnke , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , M. Kilbinger , C. C. Kirkpatrick , T. D. Kitching , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Meneghetti , R. Benton Metcalf , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. Niemi , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , L. Patrizii , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , D. Potter , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , V. Scottez , A. Secroun , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , D. Stern , F. Sureau , P. Tallada Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , M. Tenti , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , M. Viel , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , L. Whittaker , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca

We use galaxy surface brightness as prior information to improve photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation. We apply our template-based photo-z method to imaging data from the ground-based VVDS survey and the space-based GOODS field from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hans F. Stabenau , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain

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

We use the mock catalog of galaxies, constructed based on the COSMOS galaxy catalog including information on photometric redshifts (photo-z) and SED types of galaxies, in order to study how to define a galaxy subsample suitable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Hisanori Furusawa

Spectroscopic datasets are essential for training and calibrating photometric redshift (photo-$z$) methods. However, spectroscopic redshifts (spec-$z$'s) constitute a biased and sparse sampling of the photometric galaxy population, which…

We report new improved photometric redshifts of 1048 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). A standard chi^2 minimizing method is applied to seven-color UBVIJHK photometry by Fernandez-Soto, Lanzetta, & Yahil (1999). We use 187 template…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hisanori Furusawa , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Mamoru Doi , Sadanori Okamura

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is crucial in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology using current and future large sky surveys. In this study, we employ Random Forest (RF), a machine learning algorithm, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junhao Lu , Zhijian Luo , Zhu Chen , Liping Fu , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Yicheng Li , Xian-Min Meng , Zhirui Tang , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

With the launch of eROSITA (extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array), successfully occurred on 2019 July 13, we are facing the challenge of computing reliable photometric redshifts for 3 million of active galactic nuclei…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Brescia , M. Salvato , S. Cavuoti , T. T. Ananna , G. Riccio , S. M. LaMassa , C. M. Urry , G. Longo

The estimation and utilization of photometric redshift probability density functions (photo-$z$ PDFs) has become increasingly important over the last few years and currently there exist a wide variety of algorithms to compute photo-$z$'s,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

We present ANNz2, a new implementation of the public software for photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation of Collister and Lahav (2004), which now includes generation of full probability distribution functions (PDFs). ANNz2 utilizes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Iftach Sadeh , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav

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…

In order to answer the open questions of modern cosmology and galaxy evolution theory, robust algorithms for calculating photometric redshifts (photo-z) for very large samples of galaxies are needed. Correct estimation of the various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Oleksandra Razim , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Mara Salvato , Giuseppe Longo

We extend the multi-tracer (MT) formalism of the effective field theory of large-scale structure to redshift space, comparing the results of MT to a single-tracer analysis when extracting cosmological parameters from simulations. We used a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-12 Thiago Mergulhão , Henrique Rubira , Rodrigo Voivodic

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) are crucial for the cosmology, galaxy evolution, and transient science drivers of next-generation imaging facilities like the Euclid Mission, the Rubin Observatory, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Emma R. Moran , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey