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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

Accurate photo-z measurements are important to construct a large-scale structure map of X-ray Universe in the ongoing SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. We present machine learning Random Forest-based models for probabilistic photo-z predictions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Viktor Borisov , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov , RU eROSITA catalog group

The development of the state-of-the-art telescopic systems capable of performing expansive sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Euclid, and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has significantly…

Over the years, photometric redshift estimation (photo-z) has advanced through various methods. This study evaluates four distinct photo-z estimators-ANNz2, BPZ, ENF, and DNF-using the Dark Energy Survey Y3 BAO Sample. Unlike most studies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a major science project of the Space Application System of the China Manned Space Program. This survey is planned to perform both photometric imaging and slitless spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-23 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Cong K. Xu , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ran Li , Dezi Liu , Yongquan Xue , Li Cao , Xiyang Fu , Xin Zhang , Shen Wang , Hu Zhan

Cross-correlations between the galaxy number density in a lensing source sample and that in an overlapping spectroscopic sample can in principle be used to calibrate the lensing source redshift distribution. In this paper, we study in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Sudeep Das

Estimating redshift is a central task in astrophysics, but its measurement is costly and time-consuming. In addition, current image-based methods are often validated on homogeneous datasets. The development and comparison of networks able…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Alessandro Meroni , Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago , Piero Fraternali

The accuracy of galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) can significantly affect the analysis of weak gravitational lensing measurements, especially for future high-precision surveys. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

We present a photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimation technique for galaxies in the P\lowercase{an}-STARRS1 (PS1) $3\pi $ survey. Specifically, we train and test a regression and a classification Random-Forest (RF) models using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 A. Baldeschi , M. Stroh , R. Margutti , T. Laskar , A. Miller

In the present study, we use the DES Y3 catalog of LRG to incorporate the realistic galaxies' redshift Probability Distribution Function(PDF) into the correlation function cosmological model. We used four different photo-z estimators ANNz2,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

A significant challenge facing photometric surveys for cosmological purposes is the need to produce reliable redshift estimates. The estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-zs) has been consolidated as the standard strategy to bypass the…

We present a supervised neural network approach to the determination of photometric redshifts. The method was tuned to match the characteristics of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and it exploits the spectroscopic redshifts provided by this…

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 catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12. We use various supervised learning algorithms to calculate redshifts using photometric attributes on a spectroscopic training…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Kenny Chong , Abel Yang

In a companion paper, we proposed combining large numbers of "fuzzy archetypes" with Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) to derive photometric redshifts in a data-driven way. In this paper, we investigate the performance of several sampling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-29 Joshua S. Speagle , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We describe the derivation and validation of redshift distribution estimates and their uncertainties for the galaxies used as weak lensing sources in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 cosmological analyses. The Bayesian Photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 B. Hoyle , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , M. M. Rau , J. De Vicente , W. G. Hartley , E. Gaztanaga , J. DeRose , M. A. Troxel , C. Davis , A. Alarcon , N. MacCrann , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , M. R. Becker , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Childress , T. M. Davis , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Gatti , K. Glazebrook , J. Gschwend , S. R. Hinton , J. K. Hoormann , A. G. Kim , A. King , K. Kuehn , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. A. G. Maia , P. Martini , D. Mudd , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , B. Nord , C. R. O'Neill , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

We use the mock catalog of galaxies, constructed based on the COSMOS galaxy catalog including information on photometric redshifts (photo-z) and SED types of galaxies, in order to study how to define a galaxy subsample suitable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Hisanori Furusawa

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

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

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…