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Galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) is crucial in cosmological studies, such as weak gravitational lensing and galaxy angular clustering measurements. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information and construct its probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

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

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…

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

The estimation of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts (spec-z and photo-z) is crucial for future cosmological surveys. It can directly affect several powerful measurements of the Universe, e.g. weak lensing and galaxy clustering. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xin Zhang , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Valeria Amaro , Zuhui Fan , Liping Fu

Studies of cosmology, galaxy evolution, and astronomical transients with current and next-generation wide-field imaging surveys like the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are all critically dependent on estimates of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Yao-Yuan Mao , Markus Michael Rau , Rongpu Zhou

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

In the era of large sky surveys, photometric redshifts (photo-z) represent crucial information for galaxy evolution and cosmology studies. In this work, we propose a new Machine Learning (ML) tool called Galaxy morphoto-Z with neural…

We developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), used as a classifier, to estimate photometric redshifts and associated probability distribution functions (PDF) for galaxies in the Main Galaxy Sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Johanna Pasquet , Emmanuel Bertin , Marie Treyer , Stéphane Arnouts , Dominique Fouchez

We present a supervised neural network approach to the determination of photometric redshifts. The method was tuned to match the characteristics of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and it exploits the spectroscopic redshifts provided by this…

We present a technique for the estimation of photometric redshifts based on feed-forward neural networks. The Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Artificial Neural Network is used to predict photometric redshifts in the HDF-S from an ultra deep…

We present a method, PhotoWeb, for estimating photometric redshifts of individual galaxies, and their equivalent distance, with megaparsec and even sub-megaparsec accuracy using the Cosmic Web as a constraint over photo-z estimates.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Bahram Mobasher

Improving distance measurements in large imaging surveys is a major challenge to better reveal the distribution of galaxies on a large scale and to link galaxy properties with their environments. Photometric redshifts can be efficiently…

We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle

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

Weak gravitational lensing is a valuable probe of galaxy formation and cosmology. Here we quantify the effects of using photometric redshifts (photo-z) in galaxy-galaxy lensing, for both sources and lenses, both for the immediate goal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Nakajima , R. Mandelbaum , U. Seljak , J. D. Cohn , R. Reyes , R. Cool

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce several billion photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s), enabling cosmological analyses to select a subset of galaxies with the most accurate photo-$z$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Adam Broussard , Eric Gawiser

We present a novel way of using neural networks (NN) to estimate the redshift distribution of a galaxy sample. We are able to obtain a probability density function (PDF) for each galaxy using a classification neural network. The method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-08 Christopher Bonnett

We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin , Erin S. Sheldon

In cosmological analyses, precise redshift determination remains pivotal for understanding cosmic evolution. However, with only a fraction of galaxies having spectroscopic redshifts (spec-$z$s), the challenge lies in estimating redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Anjitha John William , Priyanka Jalan , Maciej Bilicki , Wojciech A. Hellwing
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