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Accurate photometric redshifts are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for photometric redshift estimation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Sam N. Lindsay , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

Determining photometric redshifts to high accuracy is paramount to measure distances in wide-field cosmological experiments. With only photometric information at hand, photo-zs are prone to systematic uncertainties in the intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Z. Ansari , A. Agnello , C. Gall

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is crucial in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology using current and future large sky surveys. In this study, we employ Random Forest (RF), a machine learning algorithm, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junhao Lu , Zhijian Luo , Zhu Chen , Liping Fu , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Yicheng Li , Xian-Min Meng , Zhirui Tang , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

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

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…

The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric redshift distributions is therefore critical for Euclid,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

We present ANNz2, a new implementation of the public software for photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation of Collister and Lahav (2004), which now includes generation of full probability distribution functions (PDFs). ANNz2 utilizes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Iftach Sadeh , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav

In this paper we introduce the \textsc{Deepz} deep learning photometric redshift (photo-$z$) code. As a test case, we apply the code to the PAU survey (PAUS) data in the COSMOS field. \textsc{Deepz} reduces the $\sigma_{68}$ scatter…

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

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts

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

The control of photometric redshift (photo-$z$) errors is a crucial and challenging task for precision weak lensing cosmology. The spacial cross-correlations (equivalently, the angular cross power spectra) of galaxies between tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-03 L. Sun , H. Zhan , C. Tao

The next generation of proposed galaxy surveys will increase the number of galaxies with photometric redshifts by two orders of magnitude, drastically expanding both redshift range and detection threshold from the current state of the art.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. E. Schulz

Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailability of complete and representative training and validation…

We describe a new method for measuring the true redshift distribution of any set of objects studied only photometrically. The angular cross-correlation between objects in a photometric sample with objects in some spectroscopic sample as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey A. Newman

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

Despite the high accuracy of photometric redshifts (zphot) derived using Machine Learning (ML) methods, the quantification of errors through reliable and accurate Probability Density Functions (PDFs) is still an open problem. First, because…

The analysis of weak gravitational lensing in wide-field imaging surveys is considered to be a major cosmological probe of dark energy. Our capacity to constrain the dark energy equation of state relies on the accurate knowledge of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Euclid Collaboration , O. Ilbert , S. de la Torre , N. Martinet , A. H. Wright , S. Paltani , C. Laigle , I. Davidzon , E. Jullo , H. Hildebrandt , D. C. Masters , A. Amara , C. J. Conselice , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , R. Azzollini , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , S. Borgani , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , A. Cappi , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , A. Costille , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , D. Di Ferdinando , F. Dubath , C. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Fabricius , S. Farrens , P. G. Ferreira , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , G. Gozaliasl , J. Graciá-Carpio , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , C. C. Kirkpatrick , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , R. Benton Metcalf , M. Moresco , B. Morin , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. Niemi , J. Nightingale , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , L. Patrizii , K. Pedersen , R. Pello , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , D. Potter , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , V. Scottez , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , F. Sureau , P. Tallada Crespí , M. Tenti , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , A. Tramacere , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , J. Weller , L. Whittaker , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca

Photometric galaxy surveys constitute a powerful cosmological probe but rely on the accurate characterization of their redshift distributions using only broadband imaging, and can be very sensitive to incomplete or biased priors used for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Alex Alarcon , Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein , Enrique Gaztañaga