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Many of the cosmological tests to be performed by planned dark energy experiments will require extremely well-characterized photometric redshift measurements. Current estimates are that the true mean redshift of the objects in each photo-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

The redshifts of galaxies are a key attribute that is needed for nearly all extragalactic studies. Since spectroscopic redshifts require additional telescope and human resources, millions of galaxies are known without spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , B. C. Hsieh

To measure the mass of foreground objects with weak gravitational lensing, one needs to estimate the redshift distribution of lensed background sources. This is commonly done in an empirical fashion, i.e. with a reference sample of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Daniel Gruen , Fabrice Brimioulle

We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Commissioning Camera. Employing the Redshift…

Weak gravitational lensing surveys using photometric redshifts can have their cosmological constraints severely degraded by errors in the photo-z scale. We explore the cosmological degradation vs the size of the spectroscopic survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zhaoming Ma , Gary Bernstein

Proposed cosmological surveys will make use of photometric redshifts of galaxies that are significantly fainter than any complete spectroscopic redshift surveys that exist to train the photo-z methods. We investigate the photo-z biases that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. J. MacDonald , Gary Bernstein

We investigate the accuracy of 4000\AA/Balmer-break based redshifts by combining Hubble Space Telescope ({\it HST}) grism data with photometry. The grism spectra are from the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Bhavin A. Joshi , Seth Cohen , Rogier A. Windhorst , Rolf Jansen , Norbert Pirzkal , Nimish P. Hathi

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

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

Photo-z algorithms that utilize SED template fitting have matured, and are widely adopted for use on high-redshift near-infrared data that provides a unique window into the early universe. Alternative photo-z methods have been developed,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Grant Merz , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Junyao Li , Qian Yang , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , John Franklin Crenshaw

A significant challenge facing photometric surveys for cosmological purposes is the need to produce reliable redshift estimates. The estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-zs) has been consolidated as the standard strategy to bypass the…

We present methods to (i) graphically identify robust redshifts using emission lines in the (sub)mm regime, (ii) evaluate the capabilities of different (sub)mm practices for measuring spectroscopic redshifts, and (iii) optimise future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Tom J. L. C. Bakx , Helmut Dannerbauer

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

We conduct a detailed analysis of the photometric redshift requirements for the proposed Dark Energy Survey (DES) using two sets of mock galaxy simulations and an artificial neural network code - ANNz. In particular, we examine how optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Manda Banerji , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin

We present ZEBRA, the Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer. The current version of ZEBRA combines and extends several of the classical approaches to produce accurate photometric redshifts down to faint magnitudes. In particular,…

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…

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…

We study the impact of catastrophic errors occurring in the photometric redshifts of galaxies on cosmological parameter estimates with cosmic shear tomography. We consider a fiducial survey with 9-filter set and perform photo-z measurement…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 L. Sun , Z. -H. Fan , C. Tao , J. -P. Kneib , S. Jouvel , A. Tilquin

We study the performance of the hybrid template-machine-learning photometric redshift (photo-$z$) algorithm Delight, which uses Gaussian processes, on a subset of the early data release of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey…

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