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Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) are fundamental in galaxy surveys to address different topics, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), i.e. the ESO public survey on the…

We present a photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimation technique for galaxies in the P\lowercase{an}-STARRS1 (PS1) $3\pi $ survey. Specifically, we train and test a regression and a classification Random-Forest (RF) models using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 A. Baldeschi , M. Stroh , R. Margutti , T. Laskar , A. Miller

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Clustering studies in current photometric galaxy surveys focus solely on auto-correlations, neglecting cross-correlations between redshift bins. We evaluate the potential advantages and drawbacks of incorporating cross-bin correlations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jordan Krywonos , Jessica Muir , Matthew C. Johnson

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

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

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

(abridged) The evolution of galaxy clustering from z=0 to z=4.5 is analyzed using the angular correlation function and the photometric redshift distribution of galaxies brighter than I_{AB}\le 28.5 in the HDF North. The reliability of the…

We present the galaxy-galaxy angular correlations as a function of photometric redshift in a deep-wide galaxy survey centered on the Hubble Deep Field South. Images were obtained with the Big Throughput Camera on the Blanco 4m telescope at…

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

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

Many astrophysical analyses depend on estimates of redshifts (a proxy for distance) determined from photometric (i.e., imaging) data alone. Inaccurate estimates of photometric redshift uncertainties can result in large systematic errors.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Biprateep Dey , Jeffrey A. Newman , Brett H. Andrews , Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , David Zhao , Markus Michael Rau , Alex I. Malz

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts

The scientific impact of current and upcoming photometric galaxy surveys is contingent on our ability to obtain redshift estimates for large numbers of faint galaxies. In the absence of spectroscopically confirmed redshifts, broad-band…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alex I. Malz

Measuring cosmic shear in wide-field imaging surveys requires accurate knowledge of the redshift distribution of all sources. The clustering-redshift technique exploits the angular cross-correlation of a target galaxy sample with unknown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 J. L. van den Busch , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright , C. B. Morrison , C. Blake , B. Joachimi , T. Erben , C. Heymans , K. Kuijken , E. N. Taylor

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…

Aims: The precision of cosmological constraints from imaging surveys hinges on accurately estimating the redshift distribution $ n(z) $ of tomographic bins, especially their mean redshifts. We assess the effectiveness of the clustering…

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The accuracy of galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) can significantly affect the analysis of weak gravitational lensing measurements, especially for future high-precision surveys. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

A trustworthy estimate of the redshift distribution $n(z)$ is crucial for using weak gravitational lensing and large-scale structure of galaxy catalogs to study cosmology. Spectroscopic redshifts for the dim and numerous galaxies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alex I. Malz , David W. Hogg