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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

We conduct a detailed analysis of the photometric redshift requirements for the proposed Dark Energy Survey (DES) using two sets of mock galaxy simulations and an artificial neural network code - ANNz. In particular, we examine how optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Manda Banerji , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin

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

Broadband photometry offers a time and cost effective method to reconstruct the continuum emission of celestial objects. Thus, photometric redshift estimation has supported the scientific exploitation of extragalactic multiwavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 S. Fotopoulou , S. Paltani

A trustworthy estimate of the redshift distribution $n(z)$ is crucial for using weak gravitational lensing and large-scale structure of galaxy catalogs to study cosmology. Spectroscopic redshifts for the dim and numerous galaxies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alex I. Malz , David W. Hogg

I present a new approach at deriving far-infrared photometric redshifts for galaxies based on their reprocessed emission from dust at rest-frame far-infrared through millimeter wavelengths. Far-infrared photometric redshifts ("FIR-$z$")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Caitlin M. Casey

Galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) is crucial in cosmological studies, such as weak gravitational lensing and galaxy angular clustering measurements. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information and construct its probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

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

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

In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexia Gorecki , Alexandra Abate , Réza Ansari , Aurélien Barrau , Sylvain Baumont , Marc Moniez , Jean-Stéphane Ricol

Photo-z algorithms that utilize SED template fitting have matured, and are widely adopted for use on high-redshift near-infrared data that provides a unique window into the early universe. Alternative photo-z methods have been developed,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Grant Merz , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Junyao Li , Qian Yang , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , John Franklin Crenshaw

We describe a new test of photometric redshift performance given a spectroscopic redshift sample. This test complements the traditional comparison of redshift {\it differences} by testing whether the probability density functions $p(z)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 David Wittman , Ramya Bhaskar , Ryan Tobin

We apply Bayesian statistics with prior probabilities of galaxy surface luminosity (SL) to improve photometric redshifts. We apply the method to a sample of 1266 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the GOODS North and South fields at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lifang Xia , Seth Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Norman Grogin , Nimish P. Hathi , Rogier A. Windhorst , Nor Pirzkal , Chun Xu

We describe the implementation of the PhotoZ code in the framework of the Astro-WISE package and as part of the Photometric Classification Server of the PanSTARRS pipeline. Both systems allow the automatic measurement of photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. P. Saglia , J. Snigula , R. Senger , R. Bender

Accurate redshift calibration is required to obtain unbiased cosmological information from large-scale galaxy surveys. In a forward modelling approach, the redshift distribution n(z) of a galaxy sample is measured using a parametric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Dominic Grimm , Luca Tortorelli

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for individual…

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

Photometric redshifts (photo-z) are crucial to the scientific exploitation of modern panchromatic digital surveys. In this paper we present PhotoRApToR (Photometric Research Application To Redshift): a Java/C++ based desktop application…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Virgilio De Stefano , Giuseppe Longo

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

This paper reports the results obtained on the photometric redshifts measurement and accuracy, and cluster tomography in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) fields. Photometric redshifts were computed using two independent codes (Hyperz…