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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

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

Photometric galaxy surveys are an essential tool to further our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe, its matter and energy content and its evolution. These surveys necessitate the determination of the galaxy redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 Pol Martí , Ramon Miquel , Anne Bauer , Enrique Gaztañaga

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 present an enhanced version of the multiwavelength spectral modeling code MAGPHYS that allows the estimation of galaxy photometric redshift and physical properties (e.g., stellar mass, star formation rate, dust attenuation)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 A. J. Battisti , E. da Cunha , K. Grasha , M. Salvato , E. Daddi , L. Davies , S. Jin , D. Liu , E. Schinnerer , M. Vaccari

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 a method for distance calibration without using standard fitting procedures. Instead we use random resampling to reconstruct the probability density function (PDF) of calibration data points in the fitting plane. The resulting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-11 B. Vukotic , M. Jurkovic , D. Urosevic , B. Arbutina

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

Over the years, photometric redshift estimation (photo-z) has advanced through various methods. This study evaluates four distinct photo-z estimators-ANNz2, BPZ, ENF, and DNF-using the Dark Energy Survey Y3 BAO Sample. Unlike most studies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Obtaining well-calibrated photometric redshift probability densities for galaxies without a spectroscopic measurement remains a challenge. Deep learning discriminative models, typically fed with multi-band galaxy images, can produce outputs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Qiufan Lin , Hengxin Ruan , Dominique Fouchez , Shupei Chen , Rui Li , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Nicola R. Napolitano , Yuan-Sen Ting , Wei Zhang

We report the first analytical expression purely constructed by a machine to determine photometric redshifts ($z_{\rm phot}$) of galaxies. A simple and reliable functional form is derived using $41,214$ galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Krone-Martins , E. E. O. Ishida , R. S. de Souza

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Solar Neighborhood and they are prime targets for searching for rocky planets in habitable zones. Consequently, a detailed characterization of these stars is in demand. The spectral sub-type is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-28 Sirinrat Sithajan , Sukanya Meethong

The predictive accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) for alloy formation enthalpies is often limited by intrinsic energy resolution errors, particularly in ternary phase stability calculations. In this work, we present a machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Sergei I. Simak , Erna K. Delczeg-Czirjak , Olle Eriksson

With the dramatic rise in high-quality galaxy data expected from Euclid and Vera C. Rubin Observatory, there will be increasing demand for fast high-precision methods for measuring galaxy fluxes. These will be essential for inferring the…

A new method is developed for estimating photometric redshifts, using realistic template SEDs, extending over four decades in wavelength (i.e from 0.05 $\mu m$ to 1 mm). The SEDs are constructed for four different spectral types of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Mobasher , P. Mazzei

We measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the option to simultaneously estimate dust extinction (i.e. E(B-V))…

Most LSST extragalactic science will rely on photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) to extract distance information for the galaxies. However, an incomplete or non-representative training set can introduce bias into photo-$z$ estimation. It is…

State-of-the-art image-set matching techniques typically implicitly model each image-set with a Gaussian distribution. Here, we propose to go beyond these representations and model image-sets as probability distribution functions (PDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Mehrtash Harandi , Mathieu Salzmann , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Arindam Fadikar , Stefan M. Wild , Jonas Chaves-Montero

Photometric redshift estimation plays a crucial role in modern cosmological surveys for studying the universe's large-scale structures and the evolution of galaxies. Deep learning has emerged as a powerful method to produce accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 R. Ait-Ouahmed , S. Arnouts , J. Pasquet , M. Treyer , E. Bertin
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