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Measuring environment for large numbers of distant galaxies is still an open problem, for which we need galaxy positions and redshifts. Photometric redshifts are more easily available for large numbers of galaxies, but at the price of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-06 Nicola Malavasi , Lucia Pozzetti , Olga Cucciati , Sandro Bardelli , Andrea Cimatti

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 accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

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

We present a new machine learning model for estimating photometric redshifts with improved accuracy for galaxies in Pan-STARRS1 data release 1. Depending on the estimation range of redshifts, this model based on neural networks can handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

We present a new approach to the problem of estimating the redshift of galaxies from photometric data. The approach uses a genetic algorithm combined with non-linear regression to model the 2SLAQ LRG data set with SDSS DR7 photometry. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Robert Hogan , Malcolm Fairbairn , Navin Seeburn

We present the first results of our application of photometric redshifts to the study of galaxy populations in high-redshift clusters. For this survey, we are examining a sample of galaxy clusters at z > 0.6 which have already been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Lubin , R. J. Brunner

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

The identification of physically associated kiloparsec-scale quasar pairs is important for understanding galaxy evolution, the growth of supermassive black holes, and their co-evolution with host galaxies. However, their rarity and the high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xingyu Zhu , Qihang Chen , Liang Jing , Zhuojun Deng , Jun-Qing Xia , Yanxia Zhang , Jianghua Wu

The redshifts of galaxies are a key attribute that is needed for nearly all extragalactic studies. Since spectroscopic redshifts require additional telescope and human resources, millions of galaxies are known without spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , B. C. Hsieh

The number density and correlation function of galaxies are two key quantities to characterize the distribution of the observed galaxy population. High-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, which usually involve complex target selection and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-05 Jiacheng Meng , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang

Mixture models combine multiple components into a single probability density function. They are a natural statistical model for many situations in astronomy, such as surveys containing multiple types of objects, cluster analysis in various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Michael A. Kuhn , Eric D. Feigelson

When analyzing galaxy clustering in multi-band imaging surveys, there is a trade-off between selecting the largest galaxy samples (to minimize the shot noise) and selecting samples with the best photometric redshift (photo-z) precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Chihway Chang , Joshua Frieman

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts is crucial to many upcoming galaxy surveys, for example the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Almost all Rubin extragalactic and cosmological science requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Natalia Stylianou , Alex I. Malz , Peter Hatfield , John Franklin Crenshaw , Julia Gschwend

Redshift measures the distance to galaxies and underlies our understanding of the origin of the Universe and galaxy evolution. Spectroscopic redshift is the gold-standard method for measuring redshift, but it requires about $1000$ times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Andrew Lizarraga , Eric Hanchen Jiang , Jacob Nowack , Yun Qi Li , Ying Nian Wu , Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do

A precise measurement of photometric redshifts (photo-z) is key for the success of modern photometric galaxy surveys. Machine learning (ML) methods show great promise in this context, but suffer from covariate shift (CS) in training sets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chiara Moretti , Maximilian Autenrieth , Riccardo Serra , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , Andrei Mesinger

Photometric redshifts are commonly used to measure the distribution of galaxies in large surveys. However, the demands of ongoing and future large-scale cosmology surveys place very stringent limits on the redshift performance that are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Philipp Sudek , Lucia F. de la Bella , Adam Amara , William G. Hartley

We perform an analysis of photometric redshifts estimated by using a non-representative training sets in magnitude space. We use the ANNz2 and GPz algorithms to estimate the photometric redshift both in simulations as well as in real data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-12 J. D. Rivera , B. Moraes , A. I. Merson , S. Jouvel , F. B. Abdalla , M. C. B Abdalla

We discuss a method to build up and study a sample of distant galaxies, with 2<z<5, using the gravitational amplification effect in cluster-lenses for which the mass distribution is well known. The candidates are selected close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Pello , J. P. Kneib , G. Bruzual , J. M. Miralles