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Recent extensive, multi-color deep surveys of galaxies open a possibility to get observational estimation of sizes for the largest structures in the Universe. Photometric redshift accuracy (about 0.03(1+z)) allows directly study clustering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-16 N. V. Nabokov , Yu. V. Baryshev

We review the use of photometric redshifts in the particular context of Gravitational Telescopes. We discuss on the possible application of such a technique to the study of both the faint population of distant sources and the properties of…

Photometric redshift estimation is a key requirement for modern large-area surveys, where spectroscopic measurements are observationally prohibitive. Seyfert II galaxies provide a particularly challenging test case due to the combined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 Uzay Aydin

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

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

We discuss a method aiming to use photometric redshifts in lensing clusters to access the population of distant background sources. The amplification provided by gravitational lensing allows to calibrate photometric redshifts 1 to 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roser Pello , Jean-Paul Kneib , Micol Bolzonella , Joan-Marc Miralles

Three-dimensional wide-field galaxy surveys are fundamental for cosmological studies. For higher redshifts (z > 1.0), where galaxies are too faint, quasars still trace the large-scale structure of the Universe. Since available telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sándor Kunsági-Máté , Róbert Beck , István Szapudi , István Csabai

Quasar photometric redshifts are essential for studying cosmology and large-scale structures. However, their complex spectral energy distributions cause significant redshift-color degeneracy, limiting the accuracy of traditional methods. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Jianzhen Chen , Zhijian Luo , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Hubing Xiao , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu

In this paper we present photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, currently the most sensitive optical survey covering the majority of the extra-galactic sky. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Kenneth J. Duncan

The estimation and utilization of photometric redshift probability density functions (photo-$z$ PDFs) has become increasingly important over the last few years and currently there exist a wide variety of algorithms to compute photo-$z$'s,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Upcoming imaging surveys, such as LSST, will provide an unprecedented view of the Universe, but with limited resolution along the line-of-sight. Common ways to increase resolution in the third dimension, and reduce misclassifications,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , J. D. Cohn , Olivier Dore , Gil Holder

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 a novel approach to photometric redshifts, one that merges the advantages of both the template fitting and empirical fitting algorithms, without any of their disadvantages. This technique derives a set of templates, describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Csabai , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , T. Budavari

Measuring cosmic shear in wide-field imaging surveys requires accurate knowledge of the redshift distribution of all sources. The clustering-redshift technique exploits the angular cross-correlation of a target galaxy sample with unknown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 J. L. van den Busch , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright , C. B. Morrison , C. Blake , B. Joachimi , T. Erben , C. Heymans , K. Kuijken , E. N. Taylor

The current role of data-driven science is constantly increasing its importance within Astrophysics, due to the huge amount of multi-wavelength data collected every day, characterized by complex and high-volume information requiring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Oleksandra Razim , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Longo

We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, $n(z)$, through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our $\rm 3\times2pt$ configuration is comprised of photometric shear, spectroscopic…

This work uses hierarchical logistic Gaussian processes to infer true redshift distributions of samples of galaxies, through their cross-correlations with spatially overlapping spectroscopic samples. We demonstrate that this method can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Markus Michael Rau , Simon Wilson , Rachel Mandelbaum

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 Galaxy Sample, we explore photometric morphology classification and redshift estimation of galaxies using photometric data and known spectroscopic redshifts. An unsupervised method,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Zhang , Lili Li , Yongheng Zhao

To address the challenge of estimating redshifts when only single-band images are available, this study introduces a deep learning model named ViT-MDNz. Leveraging robust statistical priors learned from large-scale data concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Zhijian Luo , Yangyang Li , Jianzhen Chen , Qishen Cao , Duo Cao , Shaohua Zhang , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

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
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