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Accurate photometric redshift estimation is critical for observational cosmology, especially in large-scale surveys where spectroscopic measurements are impractical. Traditional approaches include template fitting and machine learning, each…

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With the advent of deep, all-sky radio surveys, the need for ancillary data to make the most of the new, high-quality radio data from surveys like the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), GLEAM-X, VLASS and LoTSS is growing rapidly.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , X. Rosalind Wang , Laurence A. F. Park , Ying Guo , Miroslav D. Filipovic

Forthcoming astronomical surveys are expected to detect new sources in such large numbers that measuring their spectroscopic redshift measurements will be not be practical. Thus, there is much interest in using machine learning to yield the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. J. Curran

With the aim of using machine learning techniques to obtain photometric redshifts based upon a source's radio spectrum alone, we have extracted the radio sources from the Million Quasars Catalogue. Of these, 44,119 have a spectroscopic…

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We present a novel method capable of creating optimal eigenspectra from multicolor redshift surveys for photometric redshift estimation. Our iterative training algorithm modifies the templates to represent the photometric measurements…

The cosmological exploitation of modern photometric galaxy surveys requires both accurate (unbiased) and precise (narrow) redshift probability distributions derived from broadband photometry. Existing methodologies do not meet those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg , Risa H. Wechsler , Joe DeRose

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

Photometric redshifts of galaxies obtained by multi-wavelength data are widely used in photometric surveys because of its high efficiency. Although various methods have been developed, template fitting is still adopted as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yicheng Li , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Zhijian Luo , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Xianmin Meng , Junhao Lu , Zhirui Tang , Pengfei Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

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

Estimating redshifts from broadband photometry is often limited by how accurately we can map the colors of galaxies to an underlying spectral template. Current techniques utilize spectrophotometric samples of galaxies or spectra derived…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 John Franklin Crenshaw , Andrew J. Connolly

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

In this paper, we explore how the forthcoming generation of large-scale radio continuum surveys, with the inclusion of some degree of redshift information, can constrain cosmological parameters. By cross-matching these radio surveys with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefano Camera , Mário G. Santos , David J. Bacon , Matt J. Jarvis , Kim McAlpine , Ray P. Norris , Alvise Raccanelli , Huub Röttgering

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…

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In the near future, all-sky radio surveys are set to produce catalogues of tens of millions of sources with limited multi-wavelength photometry. Spectroscopic redshifts will only be possible for a small fraction of these new-found sources.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-12 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , Laurence A. F. Park

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) is crucial for cosmological surveys. Various methods have been developed for this purpose, such as template fitting methods and machine learning techniques, each with its own…

Photometric redshifts are essential in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology, as they enable analyses of objects too numerous or faint for spectroscopy. The Rubin Observatory, Euclid, and Roman Space Telescope will soon provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel Gruen

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enabled the discovery of a significant population of galaxies at z > 10. Our understanding of the astrophysical properties of these galaxies relies on fitting templates developed using models…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Thorbjørn Clausen , Charles L. Steinhardt , Arden Shao , Gaurav Senthil Kumar
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