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The need to analyze the available large synoptic multi-band surveys drives the development of new data-analysis methods. Photometric redshift estimation is one field of application where such new methods improved the results, substantially.…

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Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 Galaxy Sample, we explore photometric morphology classification and redshift estimation of galaxies using photometric data and known spectroscopic redshifts. An unsupervised method,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Zhang , Lili Li , Yongheng Zhao

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 (DR6). We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroaki Oyaizu , Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Huan Lin , Joshua Frieman , Erin S. Sheldon

We present the methodology and data behind the photometric redshift database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12). We adopt a hybrid technique, empirically estimating the redshift via local regression on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-21 Róbert Beck , László Dobos , Tamás Budavári , Alexander S. Szalay , István Csabai

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

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

Accurate photometric redshifts for large samples of galaxies are among the main products of modern multiband digital surveys. Over the last decade, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has become a sort of benchmark against which to test the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 M. Brescia , S. Cavuoti , G. Longo , V. De Stefano

The need for accurate photometric redshifts estimation is a topic that has fundamental importance in Astronomy, due to the necessity of efficiently obtaining redshift information without the need of spectroscopic analysis. We propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Antonio D'Isanto

Upcoming photometric surveys will discover tens of thousands of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), vastly outpacing the capacity of our spectroscopic resources. In order to maximize the science return of these observations in the absence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Helen Qu , Masao Sako

This paper follows series of our works on the applicability of various machine learning methods to the morphological galaxy classification (Vavilova et al., 2021, 2022). We exploited the sample of 315776 SDSS DR9 galaxies with absolute…

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

Expanding upon the work of Way and Srivastava 2006 we demonstrate how the use of training sets of comparable size continue to make Gaussian process regression (GPR) a competitive approach to that of neural networks and other least-squares…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 M. J. Way , L. V. Foster , P. R. Gazis , A. N. Srivastava

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 Galaxy Sample using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Different input patterns based on various parameters (e.g. magnitude, color index, flux information)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lili Li , Yanxia Zhang , Yongheng Zhao , Dawei Yang

We present redshift probability distributions for galaxies in the SDSS DR8 imaging data. We used the nearest-neighbor weighting algorithm presented in Lima et al. 2008 and Cunha et al. 2009 to derive the ensemble redshift distribution N(z),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Erin S. Sheldon , Carlos Cunha , Rachel Mandelbaum , J. Brinkmann , Benjamin A. Weaver

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce several billion photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s), enabling cosmological analyses to select a subset of galaxies with the most accurate photo-$z$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Adam Broussard , Eric Gawiser

We present a catalogue of photometric redshifts for galaxies from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, which includes $\sim0.18$ billion sources covering 14,000 ${\rm deg}^2$. The photometric redshifts, along with their uncertainties, are estimated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Xingchen Zhou , Nan Li , Hu Zou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Qian Yu , Zizhao He , Boyi Ding

We present a neural network based approach to the determination of photometric redshift. The method was tested on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release (SDSS-EDR) reaching an accuracy comparable and, in some cases, better than SED…

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

We explore how information in images of nearby galaxies can be used to estimate their distance. We train a convolutional Neural Network (NN) to do this, using galaxy images from the Illustris simulation. We show that if the NN is trained on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Kevin M. Quigley , Samuel Hori , Rupert A. C. Croft