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In cosmological analyses, precise redshift determination remains pivotal for understanding cosmic evolution. However, with only a fraction of galaxies having spectroscopic redshifts (spec-$z$s), the challenge lies in estimating redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Anjitha John William , Priyanka Jalan , Maciej Bilicki , Wojciech A. Hellwing

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods -- ANNZ2, BPZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. Bonnett , M. A. Troxel , W. Hartley , A. Amara , B. Leistedt , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bridle , C. Bruderer , M. T. Busha , M. Carrasco Kind , M. J. Childress , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , T. F. Eifler , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , T. Kacprzak , A. King , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , R. Miquel , C. R. O'Neill , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. Refregier , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , S. Uddin , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker

Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

Accurate photometric redshifts are among the key requirements for precision weak lensing measurements. Both the large size of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the existence of large spectroscopic redshift samples that are…

The number of galaxies at a given flux as a function of the redshift, $z$, is derived when the $z$-distance relation is non-standard. In order to compare different models, the same formalism is also applied to the standard cosmology. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 L. Zaninetti

Wide-area imaging surveys are one of the key ways of advancing our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation physics, and the large-scale structure of the Universe in the coming years. These surveys typically require calculating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 P. W. Hatfield , I. A. Almosallam , M. J. Jarvis , N. Adams , R. A. A. Bowler , Z. Gomes , S. J. Roberts , C. Schreiber

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

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

Accurately characterizing the redshift distributions of galaxies is essential for analysing deep photometric surveys and testing cosmological models. We present a technique to simultaneously infer redshift distributions and individual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Boris Leistedt , Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris

Around $10^5$ strongly lensed galaxies are expected to be discovered with Euclid and the LSST. Utilising these large samples to study the inner structure of lens galaxies requires source redshifts, to turn lens models into mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Danial Langeroodi , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Henk Hoekstra , Adriano Agnello

We present a method, PhotoWeb, for estimating photometric redshifts of individual galaxies, and their equivalent distance, with megaparsec and even sub-megaparsec accuracy using the Cosmic Web as a constraint over photo-z estimates.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Bahram Mobasher

The need to analyze the available large synoptic multi-band surveys drives the development of new data-analysis methods. Photometric redshift estimation is one field of application where such new methods improved the results, substantially.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Antonio D'Isanto , Kai Lars Polsterer

Photometric redshift uncertainties are a major source of systematic error for ongoing and future photometric surveys. We study different sources of redshift error caused by choosing a suboptimal redshift histogram bin width and propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Markus Michael Rau , Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Stella Seitz

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

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo , Crescenzo Tortora

Photometric redshifts are essential in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology, as they enable analyses of objects too numerous or faint for spectroscopy. The Rubin Observatory, Euclid, and Roman Space Telescope will soon provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel Gruen

We present a photometric method for identifying stars, galaxies and quasars in multi-color surveys and estimating multi-color redshifts for the extragalactic objects. We use a library of >65000 color templates for comparison with observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Wolf , Klaus Meisenheimer , Hermann-Josef Röser

Using the Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), we have completed a near-infrared spectroscopic survey for K-bright galaxies at z~2.3, selected from the MUSYC survey. We derived spectroscopic redshifts from emission lines or from…

Stage IV cosmological surveys will map the universe with unprecedented precision, reducing statistical uncertainties to levels where unmodelled systematics can significantly bias inference. In particular, photometric redshift (photo-z)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Carolyn McDonald Mill , C. Danielle Leonard , Markus Michael Rau , Cora Uhlemann , Shahab Joudaki

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn