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We investigate the accuracy of 4000\AA/Balmer-break based redshifts by combining Hubble Space Telescope ({\it HST}) grism data with photometry. The grism spectra are from the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Bhavin A. Joshi , Seth Cohen , Rogier A. Windhorst , Rolf Jansen , Norbert Pirzkal , Nimish P. Hathi

We present the photometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), which are two of the three wide-field optical legacy imaging surveys to provide the baseline targeting data for the Dark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhimin Zhou , Xu Zhou , Hu Zou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Xiyan Peng , Xiaohui Fan , Linhua Jiang , Ian McGreer , Jinyi Yang , Arjun Dey , Jun Ma , Jiali Wang , Xu Kong , Qirong Yuan , Hong Wu , David Schlegel

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 neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Da-Chuan Tian , Zhong-Lue Wen , Jun-Qing Xia

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

The need for accurate photometric redshifts estimation is a topic that has fundamental importance in Astronomy, due to the necessity of efficiently obtaining redshift information without the need of spectroscopic analysis. We propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Antonio D'Isanto

Accurate photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimation is a key challenge in cosmology, as uncertainties in photo-$z$ directly limit the scientific return of large-scale structure and weak lensing studies, especially in upcoming Stage IV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Yiming Ren , Kwan Chuen Chan , Le Zhang , Yin Li , Haolin Zhang , Ruiyu Song , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xingchen Zhou

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Solar Neighborhood and they are prime targets for searching for rocky planets in habitable zones. Consequently, a detailed characterization of these stars is in demand. The spectral sub-type is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-28 Sirinrat Sithajan , Sukanya Meethong

We present a probabilistic model built for the optical cross-match between the SRG/eROSITA X-ray sources and photometric data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. The model relies both on positional and photometric information on optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 M. I. Belvedersky , A. V. Meshcheryakov , M. R. Gilfanov , P. S. Medvedev

We present a catalog of 1.4 million photometrically-selected quasar candidates in the southern hemisphere over the $\sim 5000\,{\rm deg^2}$ Dark Energy Survey (DES) wide survey area. We combine optical photometry from the DES second data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Qian Yang , Yue Shen

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Arindam Fadikar , Stefan M. Wild , Jonas Chaves-Montero

We use N-body/photometric galaxy simulations to examine the impact of sample variance of spectroscopic redshift samples on the accuracy of photometric redshift (photo-z) determination and calibration of photo-z errors. We estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Carlos E. Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Michael T. Busha , Risa H. Wechsler

We present a bright galaxy sample with accurate and precise photometric redshifts (photo-zs), selected using $ugriZYJHK_\mathrm{s}$ photometry from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Data Release 4 (DR4). The highly pure and complete dataset is…

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

Photometric redshifts are a key component of many science objectives in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). In this paper, we describe and compare the codes used to compute photometric redshifts for HSC-SSP, how we…

We investigate the impact of photometric signal-to-noise (S/N) on the precision of photometric redshifts in multi-band imaging surveys, using both simulations and real data. We simulate the optical 4-band (BVRz) Deep Lens Survey (DLS,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. E. Margoniner , D. M. Wittman

We present a catalogue of photometric redshifts for galaxies from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, which includes $\sim0.18$ billion sources covering 14,000 ${\rm deg}^2$. The photometric redshifts, along with their uncertainties, are estimated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Xingchen Zhou , Nan Li , Hu Zou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Qian Yu , Zizhao He , Boyi Ding

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

The Pan-STARRS1 survey is obtaining multi-epoch imaging in 5 bands (gps rps ips zps yps) over the entire sky North of declination -30deg. We describe here the implementation of the Photometric Classification Server (PCS) for Pan-STARRS1.…

Galaxy surveys are crucial for studying large-scale structure (LSS) and cosmology, yet they face limitations--imaging surveys provide extensive sky coverage but suffer from photo-$z$ uncertainties, while spectroscopic surveys yield precise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wenying Du , Xiaolin Luo , Zhujun Jiang , Xu Xiao , Qiufan Lin , Xin Wang , Yang Wang , Fenfen Yin , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li
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