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We discuss a method aiming to use photometric redshifts in lensing clusters to access the population of distant background sources. The amplification provided by gravitational lensing allows to calibrate photometric redshifts 1 to 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roser Pello , Jean-Paul Kneib , Micol Bolzonella , Joan-Marc Miralles

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

We investigate in this paper the error on the cluster redshift estimate as a function of: (1) the number of galaxy structures along the line of sight; (2) the morphology of the clusters (regular/substructures); (3) the nature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Adami , M. Ulmer

We first present a catalogue of photometric redshifts for 14.68 million galaxies derived from the 7-band photometric data of Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer using the nearest-neighbour…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-20 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

Accurate redshift calibration is required to obtain unbiased cosmological information from large-scale galaxy surveys. In a forward modelling approach, the redshift distribution n(z) of a galaxy sample is measured using a parametric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Dominic Grimm , Luca Tortorelli

We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

Various aspects of cosmology require comprehensive all-sky mapping of the cosmic web to considerable depths. In order to probe the whole extragalactic sky beyond 100 Mpc, one must draw on multiwavelength datasets and state-of-the-art…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 Maciej Bilicki

The development of the state-of-the-art telescopic systems capable of performing expansive sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Euclid, and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has significantly…

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 investigate the effects of potential sources of systematic error on the angular and photometric redshift, z_phot, distributions of a sample of redshift 0.4 < z < 0.7 massive galaxies whose selection matches that of the Baryon Oscillation…

Photometric redshift estimation is becoming an increasingly important technique, although the currently existing methods present several shortcomings which hinder their application. Here it is shown that most of those drawbacks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Narciso Benitez

We present an analysis of the evolution of galaxy clustering in the redshift interval 0<z<4.5 in the HDF-S. The HST optical data are combined with infrared ISAAC/VLT observations, and photometric redshifts are used for all the galaxies…

We present a new (2+1)D galaxy cluster finder based on photometric redshifts called Wavelet Z Photometric (WaZP) applied to DES first year (Y1A1) data. The results are compared to clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey…

We develop a framework for using clustering-based redshift inference (cluster-$z$) to measure the evolving galaxy luminosity function (GLF) and galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using WISE W1 ($3.4\mu m$) mid-infrared photometry and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Geray S. Karademir , Edward N. Taylor , Chris Blake , Michelle E. Cluver , Thomas H. Jarrett , Dian P. Triani

Photometric redshifts of the source galaxies are a key source of systematic uncertainty in the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)'s galaxy clustering and weak lensing analysis, i.e., the $3\times 2$pt analysis. This…

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

ZEBRA, the Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer, is a tool for estimating redshifts and template types of galaxies using medium- and broad-band photometric data. ZEBRA employs novel techniques within the template-fitting approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-04 R. Feldmann , C. M. Carollo , C. Porciani , S. J. Lilly , P. Oesch

We outline how redshift-space distortions (RSD) can be measured from the angular correlation function w({\theta}), of galaxies selected from photometric surveys. The natural degeneracy between RSD and galaxy bias can be minimized by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ashley J Ross , Will J Percival , Martin Crocce , Anna Cabre , Enrique Gaztanaga

Accurate photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimation is a key challenge in cosmology, as uncertainties in photo-$z$ directly limit the scientific return of large-scale structure and weak lensing studies, especially in upcoming Stage IV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Yiming Ren , Kwan Chuen Chan , Le Zhang , Yin Li , Haolin Zhang , Ruiyu Song , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xingchen Zhou