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The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric redshift distributions is therefore critical for Euclid,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

We introduce an ordinal classification algorithm for photometric redshift estimation, which significantly improves the reconstruction of photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs) for individual galaxies and galaxy samples.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-20 Markus Michael Rau , Stella Seitz , Fabrice Brimioulle , Eibe Frank , Oliver Friedrich , Daniel Gruen , Ben Hoyle

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexia Gorecki , Alexandra Abate , Réza Ansari , Aurélien Barrau , Sylvain Baumont , Marc Moniez , Jean-Stéphane Ricol

Machine learning photo-z methods, trained directly on spectroscopic redshifts, provide a viable alternative to traditional template fitting methods but may not generalise well on new data that deviates from that in the training set. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Shingo Tanigawa , Karl Glazebrook , Colin Jacobs , Ivo Labbe , Alex K. Qin

A precise measurement of photometric redshifts (photo-z) is key for the success of modern photometric galaxy surveys. Machine learning (ML) methods show great promise in this context, but suffer from covariate shift (CS) in training sets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chiara Moretti , Maximilian Autenrieth , Riccardo Serra , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , Andrei Mesinger

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

I present a new approach at deriving far-infrared photometric redshifts for galaxies based on their reprocessed emission from dust at rest-frame far-infrared through millimeter wavelengths. Far-infrared photometric redshifts ("FIR-$z$")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Caitlin M. Casey

Context. Since the advent of modern multiband digital sky surveys, photometric redshifts (photo-z's) have become relevant if not crucial to many fields of observational cosmology, from the characterization of cosmic structures, to weak and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-01 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo , Amata Mercurio

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo Motta , Filipe B. Abdalla , Elcio Abdalla , Gabriel S. Costa , Camila Cardoso

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 present a neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Da-Chuan Tian , Zhong-Lue Wen , Jun-Qing Xia

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We propose a Multimodal Machine Learning method for estimating the Photometric Redshifts of quasars (PhotoRedshift-MML for short), which has long been the subject of many investigations. Our method includes two main models, i.e. the feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuxin Hong , Zhiqiang Zou , A-Li Luo , Xiao Kong , Wenyu Yang , Yanli Chen

We present a new algorithm to estimate quasar photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s), by considering the asymmetries in the relative flux distributions of quasars. The relative flux models are built with multivariate Skew-t distributions in the…

We developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), used as a classifier, to estimate photometric redshifts and associated probability distribution functions (PDF) for galaxies in the Main Galaxy Sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Johanna Pasquet , Emmanuel Bertin , Marie Treyer , Stéphane Arnouts , Dominique Fouchez

One of the consequences of entering the era of precision cosmology is the widespread adoption of photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). Both current and future photometric surveys are expected to obtain images of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Photometric redshifts (photo-z) are crucial to the scientific exploitation of modern panchromatic digital surveys. In this paper we present PhotoRApToR (Photometric Research Application To Redshift): a Java/C++ based desktop application…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Virgilio De Stefano , Giuseppe Longo