English
Related papers

Related papers: A Composite Likelihood Approach for Inference unde…

200 papers

Flagship near-future surveys targeting $10^8-10^9$ galaxies across cosmic time will soon reveal the processes of galaxy assembly in unprecedented resolution. This creates an immediate computational challenge on effective analyses of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Bingjie Wang , Joel Leja , V. Ashley Villar , Joshua S. Speagle

The uncertainty in the redshift distributions of galaxies has a significant potential impact on the cosmological parameter values inferred from multi-band imaging surveys. The accuracy of the photometric redshifts measured in these surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-05 Augusta Abrahamse , Lloyd Knox , Samuel Schmidt , Paul Thorman , J. Anthony Tyson , Hu Zhan

We present an electronic catalog of infrared and optical photometry and photometric redshifts of 323 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South NICMOS field at http://www.ess.sunysb.edu/astro/hdfs/home.html. The analysis is based on infrared…

Estimating redshifts from broadband photometry is often limited by how accurately we can map the colors of galaxies to an underlying spectral template. Current techniques utilize spectrophotometric samples of galaxies or spectra derived…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 John Franklin Crenshaw , Andrew J. Connolly

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions designed for cross-correlations such as with CMB lensing,…

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

We study statistical properties of galaxy structures in several samples extracted from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. In particular, we measured conditional fluctuations by means of the scale-length method and determined their probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Francesco Sylos Labini , Nikolay L. Vasilyev , Yurij V. Baryshev

We present an independent calibration of the photometric redshift (photo-$z$) distributions for source galaxies in the HSC-Y3 weak lensing survey using small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing. By measuring the tangential shear around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Sunao Sugiyama , Tianqing Zhang , Masato Shirasaki

The development of fast and accurate methods of photometric redshift estimation is a vital step towards being able to fully utilize the data of next-generation surveys within precision cosmology. In this paper we apply a specific approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. E. Freeman , J. A. Newman , A. B. Lee , J. W. Richards , C. M. Schafer

We present photometric redshifts for an uniquely large and deep sample of 522286 objects with i'_{AB}<25 in the Canada-France Legacy Survey ``Deep Survey'' fields, which cover a total effective area of 3.2 deg^2. We use 3241 spectroscopic…

We present a novel framework for jointly modelling the weak lensing source galaxy redshift distribution and the intrinsic alignment of galaxies via a shared luminosity function (LF). Considering this framework within the context of a Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Nikolina Šarčević , C. Danielle Leonard , Markus M. Rau , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

We present redshift probability distributions for galaxies in the SDSS DR8 imaging data. We used the nearest-neighbor weighting algorithm presented in Lima et al. 2008 and Cunha et al. 2009 to derive the ensemble redshift distribution N(z),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Erin S. Sheldon , Carlos Cunha , Rachel Mandelbaum , J. Brinkmann , Benjamin A. Weaver

We present catalogs of calibrated photometry and spectroscopic redshifts in the Extended Groth Strip, intended for studies of photometric redshifts (photo-z's). The data includes ugriz photometry from CFHTLS and Y-band photometry from the…

Photometric wide-field surveys are imaging the sky in unprecedented detail. These surveys face a significant challenge in efficiently estimating galactic photometric redshifts while accurately quantifying associated uncertainties. In this…

Calibrating the redshift distributions of photometric galaxy samples is essential in weak lensing studies. The self-calibration method combines angular auto- and cross-correlations between galaxies in multiple photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Haojie Xu , Pengjie Zhang , Hui Peng , Yu Yu , Le Zhang , Ji Yao , Jian Qin , Zeyang Sun , Min He , Xiaohu Yang