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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 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

We present measurements of the redshift-dependent clustering of a DESI-like luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample selected from the Legacy Survey imaging dataset, and use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to fit the clustering…

Computing photo-z for AGN is challenging, primarily due to the interplay of relative emissions associated with the SMBH and its host galaxy. SED fitting methods, effective in pencil-beam surveys, face limitations in all-sky surveys with…

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

Calibrating the photometric redshifts of >10^9 galaxies for upcoming weak lensing cosmology experiments is a major challenge for the astrophysics community. The path to obtaining the required spectroscopic redshifts for training and…

Large-scale surveys make huge amounts of photometric data available. Because of the sheer amount of objects, spectral data cannot be obtained for all of them. Therefore it is important to devise techniques for reliably estimating physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt , Fabian Gieseke , Christian Igel , Andrew Zirm , Kim Steenstrup Pedersen

In this paper we present and characterize a nearest-neighbors color-matching photometric redshift estimator that features a direct relationship between the precision and accuracy of the input magnitudes and the output photometric redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Melissa L. Graham , Andrew J. Connolly , Željko Ivezić , Samuel J. Schmidt , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Jurić , Scott F. Daniel , Peter Yoachim

Here we present the results of various approaches to measure accurate colours and photometric redshifts (photo-z's) from wide-field imaging data. We use data from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) which have been re-…

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

We introduce Z-Sequence, a novel empirical model that utilises photometric measurements of observed galaxies within a specified search radius to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxy clusters. Z-Sequence itself is composed of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-26 Matthew C. Chan , John P. Stott

Based on the SDSS and SDSS-WISE quasar datasets, we put forward two schemes to estimate the photometric redshifts of quasars. Our schemes are based on the idea that the samples are firstly classified into subsamples by a classifier and then…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Yanxia Zhang , Jingyi Zhang , Xin Jin , Yongheng Zhao

I review the early history of photometric redshifts; specify a working definition that encompasses a broader range of approaches than commonly adopted; discuss the pros and cons of template fitting versus empirically-based techniques; and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David C. Koo

Galaxy surveys are crucial for studying large-scale structure (LSS) and cosmology, yet they face limitations--imaging surveys provide extensive sky coverage but suffer from photo-$z$ uncertainties, while spectroscopic surveys yield precise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wenying Du , Xiaolin Luo , Zhujun Jiang , Xu Xiao , Qiufan Lin , Xin Wang , Yang Wang , Fenfen Yin , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

The uncertainty in the photometric redshift estimation is one of the major systematics in weak lensing cosmology. The self-calibration method is able to reduce this systematics without assuming strong priors. We improve the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hui Peng , Haojie Xu , Le Zhang , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

Photometric redshifts are a key component of many science objectives in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). In this paper, we describe and compare the codes used to compute photometric redshifts for HSC-SSP, how we…

The cosmological redshift of a galaxy's light is inferable from its observable properties in images. Because imaging is much easier to acquire than spectroscopic observations that would allow the identification of distinct line features,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Luca Tortorelli , Daniel Grün

This work emphasizes that heterogeneity, diversity, discontinuity, and discreteness in data is to be exploited in classification and regression problems. A global a priori model may not be desirable. For data analytics in cosmology, this is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-10 Fionn Murtagh

Current and future imaging surveys require photometric redshifts (photo-zs) to be estimated for millions of galaxies. Improving the photo-z quality is a major challenge but is needed to advance our understanding of cosmology. In this paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 L. Cabayol , M. Eriksen , J. Carretero , R. Casas , F. J. Castander , E. Fernández , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , H. Hildebrandt , H. Hoekstra , B. Joachimi , R. Miquel , C. Padilla , A. Pocino , E. Sanchez , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla , M. Siudek , P. Tallada-Crespí , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , R. Bender , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Kümme , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , R. Kohley , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , S. M. Niemi , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seide , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , S. Mei , V. Scottez , A. Tramacere

We present a new training set for estimating empirical photometric redshifts of galaxies, which was created as part of the 2dFLenS project. This training set is located in a 700 sq deg area of the KiDS South field and is randomly selected…