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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

For more that seventy years, the measurements of fluxes of galaxies at different wavelengths and derived colours have been used to estimate their corresponding cosmological distances. From the fields of galaxy and AGN evolution to precision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Mara Salvato , Olivier Ilbert , Ben Hoyle

Advances in optical astrometry allow us to infer the non-radial kinematic structure of the Universe directly from observations. Here I use a supervised machine learning neural network method to predict 1.57 million redshifts based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Valeri V. Makarov

We present a method of selecting quasars up to redshift $\approx$ 6 with random forests, a supervised machine learning method, applied to Pan-STARRS1 and WISE data. We find that, thanks to the increasing set of known quasars we can assemble…

We present a photometric method for identifying stars, galaxies and quasars in multi-color surveys, which uses a library of >65000 color templates. The method aims for extracting the information content of object colors in a statistically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer , H. -J. Röser

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) provides a large and deep photometric catalog of galaxies in the $z'$ and $R_c$ bands for ~90 square degrees of sky, and supplemental $V$ and $B$ data have been obtained for 33.6 deg$^{2}$. We compile a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Hsieh , H. K. C. Yee , H. Lin , M. D. Gladders

We present a catalog of quasars and corresponding redshifts in the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Data Release 4. We trained machine learning (ML) models, using optical ugri and near-infrared ZYJHK_s bands, on objects known from Sloan Digital…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 S. J. Nakoneczny , M. Bilicki , A. Pollo , M. Asgari , A. Dvornik , T. Erben , B. Giblin , C. Heymans , H. Hildebrandt , A. Kannawadi , K. Kuijken , N. R. Napolitano , E. Valentijn

With the aim of using machine learning techniques to obtain photometric redshifts based upon a source's radio spectrum alone, we have extracted the radio sources from the Million Quasars Catalogue. Of these, 44,119 have a spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 S. J. Curran , J. P. Moss , Y. C. Perrott

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…

In this paper we present photometric redshifts for 2.7 million galaxies in the XMM-LSS and COSMOS fields, both with rich optical and near-infrared data from VISTA and HyperSuprimeCam. Both template fitting (using galaxy and Active Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-03 P. W. Hatfield , M. J. Jarvis , N. Adams , R. A. A. Bowler , B. Häußler , K. J. Duncan

With the availability of the huge amounts of data produced by current and future large multi-band photometric surveys, photometric redshifts have become a crucial tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. In this paper we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Omar Laurino , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppe Longo , Giuseppe Riccio

Accurate redshift measurements are essential for studying the evolution of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and their role in cosmic structure formation. While spectroscopic redshifts provide high precision, they are impractical for the vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Jeremy P. Moss , Stephen J. Curran , Yvette C. Perrott

We present a machine learning search for high-redshift ($5.0 < z < 6.5$) quasars using the combined photometric data from the DESI Imaging Legacy Surveys and the WISE survey. We explore the imputation of missing values for high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-05 Guangping Ye , Huanian Zhang , Qingwen Wu

Our view of the low-redshift Cosmic Web has been revolutionized by galaxy redshift surveys such as 6dFGS, SDSS and 2MRS. However, the trade-off between depth and angular coverage limits a systematic three-dimensional account of the entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Maciej Bilicki , John A. Peacock , Thomas H. Jarrett , Michelle E. Cluver , Louise Steward

We describe a technique for simultaneously classifying and estimating the redshift of quasars. It can separate quasars from stars in arbitrary redshift ranges, estimate full posterior distribution functions for the redshift, and naturally…

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) are fundamental in galaxy surveys to address different topics, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), i.e. the ESO public survey on the…

Identifications of quasars at intermediate redshifts (2.2<z<3.5) are inefficient in most previous quasar surveys as their optical colors are similar to those of stars. The near-IR K-band excess technique has been suggested to overcome this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xue-Bing Wu , Wenwen Zuo , Jinyi Yang , Qian Yang , Feige Wang

We present observations of 11 quasars, selected in the range z = 2.2-4.1, obtained with ESA's Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) camera on the WHT. Using a single template quasar spectrum, we show that we can determine the redshifts of…

High-redshift quasars are important tracers of structure and evolution in the early universe. However, they are very rare and difficult to find when using color selection because of contamination from late-type dwarfs. High-redshift quasar…

In the modern galaxy surveys photometric redshifts play a central role in a broad range of studies, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. Using a dataset of about 25,000 galaxies from the second data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo , Mario Radovich , Nicola R. Napolitano , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci