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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

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

Accurate and reliable photometric redshift determination is one of the key aspects for wide-field photometric surveys. Determination of photometric redshift for galaxies, has been traditionally solved by use of machine-learning and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 M. Garcia-Fernandez

To address the challenge of estimating redshifts when only single-band images are available, this study introduces a deep learning model named ViT-MDNz. Leveraging robust statistical priors learned from large-scale data concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Zhijian Luo , Yangyang Li , Jianzhen Chen , Qishen Cao , Duo Cao , Shaohua Zhang , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

We present a rigorous mathematical solution to photometric redshift estimation and the more general inversion problem. The challenge we address is to meaningfully constrain unknown properties of astronomical sources based on given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Tamas Budavari

Measuring distances of cosmological sources such as galaxies, stars and quasars plays an increasingly critical role in modern cosmology. Obtaining the optical spectrum and consequently calculating the redshift as a distance indicator could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-13 Aidin Momtaz , Mohammad Hossein Salimi , Soroush Shakeri

The estimation of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts (spec-z and photo-z) is crucial for future cosmological surveys. It can directly affect several powerful measurements of the Universe, e.g. weak lensing and galaxy clustering. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xin Zhang , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Valeria Amaro , Zuhui Fan , Liping Fu

Given multiband photometric data from the SDSS DR6, we estimate galaxy redshifts. We employ a Random Forest trained on color features and spectroscopic redshifts from 80,000 randomly chosen primary galaxies yielding a mapping from color to…

Much of the science that is made possible by multiwavelength redshift surveys requires the use of photometric redshifts. But as these surveys become more ambitious, and as we seek to perform increasingly accurate measurements, it becomes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Ryan F. Quadri , Rik J. Williams

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

Photometric surveys produce large-area maps of the galaxy distribution, but with less accurate redshift information than is obtained from spectroscopic methods. Modern photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithms use galaxy magnitudes, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 J. Asorey , M. Carrasco Kind , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. J. Brunner , J. Thaler

Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of photometric redshift errors and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hiroaki Oyaizu , Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Huan Lin , Joshua Frieman

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a novel project that aims to map the Southern Hemisphere using a twelve filter system, comprising five broad-band SDSS-like filters and seven narrow-band filters optimized for…

A new approach to estimating photometric redshifts - using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - is investigated. Unlike the standard template-fitting photometric redshift technique, a large spectroscopically-identified training set is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew E. Firth , Ofer Lahav , Rachel S. Somerville

In order to answer the open questions of modern cosmology and galaxy evolution theory, robust algorithms for calculating photometric redshifts (photo-z) for very large samples of galaxies are needed. Correct estimation of the various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Oleksandra Razim , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Mara Salvato , Giuseppe Longo

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

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) are crucial for the cosmology, galaxy evolution, and transient science drivers of next-generation imaging facilities like the Euclid Mission, the Rubin Observatory, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Emma R. Moran , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey

Computational image reconstruction algorithms generally produce a single image without any measure of uncertainty or confidence. Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) and feed-forward deep learning approaches for inverse problems typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 He Sun , Katherine L. Bouman