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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

For more that seventy years, the measurements of fluxes of galaxies at different wavelengths and derived colours have been used to estimate their corresponding cosmological distances. From the fields of galaxy and AGN evolution to precision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Mara Salvato , Olivier Ilbert , Ben Hoyle

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

Despite the high accuracy of photometric redshifts (zphot) derived using Machine Learning (ML) methods, the quantification of errors through reliable and accurate Probability Density Functions (PDFs) is still an open problem. First, because…

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

Density estimation plays a crucial role in many data analysis tasks, as it infers a continuous probability density function (PDF) from discrete samples. Thus, it is used in tasks as diverse as analyzing population data, spatial locations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Patrik Puchert , Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts

The current role of data-driven science is constantly increasing its importance within Astrophysics, due to the huge amount of multi-wavelength data collected every day, characterized by complex and high-volume information requiring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Oleksandra Razim , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Longo

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…

We apply both a traditional `dropout' approach and a photometric redshift estimation technique to the Hubble Deep Field South data. We give a list of dropout selected z$\sim$3 objects, and show their images. We then discuss our photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. L. Clements

Quasar photometric redshifts are essential for studying cosmology and large-scale structures. However, their complex spectral energy distributions cause significant redshift-color degeneracy, limiting the accuracy of traditional methods. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Jianzhen Chen , Zhijian Luo , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Hubing Xiao , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu

In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza

We present Mantis Shrimp, a multi-survey deep learning model for photometric redshift estimation that fuses ultra-violet (GALEX), optical (PanSTARRS), and infrared (UnWISE) imagery. Machine learning is now an established approach for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Andrew Engel , Nell Byler , Adam Tsou , Gautham Narayan , Emmanuel Bonilla , Ian Smith

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

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample, The Galaxy Evolution Explorer All Sky Survey, and The Two Micron All Sky Survey using two new training-set methods. We utilize the broad-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Way , A. N. Srivastava

Photometric redshift estimation is a key requirement for modern large-area surveys, where spectroscopic measurements are observationally prohibitive. Seyfert II galaxies provide a particularly challenging test case due to the combined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 Uzay Aydin

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large-scale astronomical surveys through photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation. Photo-z uncertainty estimates are critical for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen

The technique of estimating redshifts using photometric rather than spectroscopic observations has recently received great attention due to its simplicity and the accuracy of the results obtained. In this work, we estimate photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kitsionas , E. Hatziminaoglou , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Georgakakis , O. Giannakis

Building on the first paper in this series (Duncan et al. 2018), we present a study investigating the performance of Gaussian process photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-24 Kenneth J Duncan , Matt J. Jarvis , Michael J. I. Brown , Huub J. A. Rottgering

We show how to enhance the redshift accuracy of surveys consisting of tracers with highly uncertain positions along the line of sight. Photometric surveys with redshift uncertainty delta_z ~ 0.03 can yield final redshift uncertainties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt