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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 photometric redshift estimation is critical for observational cosmology, especially in large-scale surveys where spectroscopic measurements are impractical. Traditional approaches include template fitting and machine learning, each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jonas Chris Ferrao , Dickson Dias , Pranav Naik , Glory D'Cruz , Anish Naik , Siya Khandeparkar , Manisha Gokuldas Fal Dessai

Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

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

Wide, deep photometric surveys require robust photometric redshift estimates (photo-z's) for studies of large-scale structure. These estimates depend critically on accurate photometry. We describe the improvements to the photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Samuel J. Schmidt , Paul Thorman

The analysis of weak gravitational lensing in wide-field imaging surveys is considered to be a major cosmological probe of dark energy. Our capacity to constrain the dark energy equation of state relies on the accurate knowledge of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Euclid Collaboration , O. Ilbert , S. de la Torre , N. Martinet , A. H. Wright , S. Paltani , C. Laigle , I. Davidzon , E. Jullo , H. Hildebrandt , D. C. Masters , A. Amara , C. J. Conselice , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , R. Azzollini , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , S. Borgani , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , A. Cappi , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , A. Costille , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , D. Di Ferdinando , F. Dubath , C. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Fabricius , S. Farrens , P. G. Ferreira , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , G. Gozaliasl , J. Graciá-Carpio , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , C. C. Kirkpatrick , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , R. Benton Metcalf , M. Moresco , B. Morin , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. Niemi , J. Nightingale , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , L. Patrizii , K. Pedersen , R. Pello , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , D. Potter , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , V. Scottez , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , F. Sureau , P. Tallada Crespí , M. Tenti , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , A. Tramacere , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , J. Weller , L. Whittaker , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca

At high redshift, due to both observational limitations and the variety of galaxy morphologies in the early universe, measuring galaxy structure can be challenging. Non-parametric measurements such as the CAS system have thus become an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 C. Tohill , L. Ferreira , C. J. Conselice , S. P. Bamford , F. Ferrari

Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We conduct a detailed analysis of the photometric redshift requirements for the proposed Dark Energy Survey (DES) using two sets of mock galaxy simulations and an artificial neural network code - ANNz. In particular, we examine how optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Manda Banerji , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin

Current and future weak lensing surveys will rely on photometrically estimated redshifts of very large numbers of galaxies. In this paper, we address several different aspects of the demanding photo-z performance that will be required for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rongmon Bordoloi , Simon J. Lilly , Adam Amara

We present a study of photometric redshift accuracy in the 3D-HST photometric catalogs, using 3D-HST grism redshifts to quantify and dissect trends in redshift accuracy for galaxies brighter than $H_{F140W}<24$ with an unprecedented and…

We apply Bayesian statistics with prior probabilities of galaxy surface luminosity (SL) to improve photometric redshifts. We apply the method to a sample of 1266 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the GOODS North and South fields at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lifang Xia , Seth Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Norman Grogin , Nimish P. Hathi , Rogier A. Windhorst , Nor Pirzkal , Chun Xu

Cosmic shear estimation is an essential scientific goal for large galaxy surveys. It refers to the coherent distortion of distant galaxy images due to weak gravitational lensing along the line of sight. It can be used as a tracer of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Claire Theobald , Bastien Arcelin , Frédéric Pennerath , Brieuc Conan-Guez , Miguel Couceiro , Amedeo Napoli

We propose a Multimodal Machine Learning method for estimating the Photometric Redshifts of quasars (PhotoRedshift-MML for short), which has long been the subject of many investigations. Our method includes two main models, i.e. the feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuxin Hong , Zhiqiang Zou , A-Li Luo , Xiao Kong , Wenyu Yang , Yanli Chen

We present a dataset built for machine learning applications consisting of galaxy photometry, images, spectroscopic redshifts, and structural properties. This dataset comprises 286,401 galaxy images and photometry from the Hyper-Suprime-Cam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Evan Jones , Yun Qi Li , Kevin Alfaro

We employ deep learning (DL) to improve photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4 Bright galaxy sample (KiDS-Bright DR4). This dataset, used as a foreground for KiDS lensing and clustering studies, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Anjitha John William , Priyanka Jalan , Maciej Bilicki , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Hareesh Thuruthipilly , Szymon J. Nakoneczny

Improving the accuracy of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is essential for reliable statistical studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. However, missing photometric bands are a common observational challenge that can significantly…

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) survey at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) will use a new optical camera (PAUCam) with a large set of narrow-band filters to perform a photometric galaxy survey with a quasi-spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Pol Martí , Ramon Miquel , Francisco J. Castander , Enrique Gaztañaga , Martin Eriksen , Carles Sánchez

We propose the use of angular fluctuations in the galaxy redshift field as a new way to extract cosmological information in the Universe. This new probe $\delta z (\hat{n})$ consists on the statistics of sky maps built by projecting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Jonas Chaves-Montero , Raul E. Angulo

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) photometric survey aims to perform a high spatial resolution (~0.15'') photometric imaging for the targets that cover a large sky area (~17,500 deg^2) and wide wavelength range (from NUV to NIR). It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Chun Xu