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Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo , Crescenzo Tortora

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large-scale astronomical surveys through photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation. Photo-z uncertainty estimates are critical for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen

Photometric redshifts of galaxies obtained by multi-wavelength data are widely used in photometric surveys because of its high efficiency. Although various methods have been developed, template fitting is still adopted as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yicheng Li , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Zhijian Luo , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Xianmin Meng , Junhao Lu , Zhirui Tang , Pengfei Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

We present a catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts and k-corrections for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seven Data Release (SDSS-DR7), available on the World Wide Web. The photometric redshifts were estimated with an artificial neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana Laura O'Mill , Fernanda Duplancic , Diego García Lambas , Laerte Sodré

Context: In astronomy, new approaches to process and analyze the exponentially increasing amount of data are inevitable. While classical approaches (e.g. template fitting) are fine for objects of well-known classes, alternative techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 S. D. Kügler , K. Polsterer , M. Hoecker

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

We present a new approach to obtaining photometric redshifts using a kernel learning technique called Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Unlike traditional spectral energy distribution fitting, this technique requires a large and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh Wadadekar

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 Galaxy Sample using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Different input patterns based on various parameters (e.g. magnitude, color index, flux information)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lili Li , Yanxia Zhang , Yongheng Zhao , Dawei Yang

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample, The Galaxy Evolution Explorer All Sky Survey, and The Two Micron All Sky Survey using two new training-set methods. We utilize the broad-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Way , A. N. Srivastava

We present an analysis of importance feature selection applied to photometric redshift estimation using the machine learning architecture Decision Trees with the ensemble learning routine Adaboost (hereafter RDF). We select a list of 85…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau , Roman Zitlau , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

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

We apply both a traditional `dropout' approach and a photometric redshift estimation technique to the Hubble Deep Field South data. We give a list of dropout selected z$\sim$3 objects, and show their images. We then discuss our photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. L. Clements

We apply machine learning in the form of a nearest neighbor instance-based algorithm (NN) to generate full photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs) for objects in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

The development of the state-of-the-art telescopic systems capable of performing expansive sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Euclid, and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has significantly…

In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza

We discuss the stability of the photometric redshift estimate obtained with the SED fitting method with respect to the choice of the galaxy templates. Within the observational uncertainty and photometric errors, we find satisfactory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Massarotti , A. Iovino , A. Buzzoni

We present a new approach, kernel regression, to determine photometric redshifts for 399,929 galaxies in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In our case, kernel regression is a weighted average of spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Wang , Y. X. Zhang , C. Liu , Y. H. Zhao

All-sky radio surveys are set to revolutionise the field with new discoveries. However, the vast majority of the tens of millions of radio galaxies won't have the spectroscopic redshift measurements required for a large number of science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , Laurence A. F. Park , X. Rosalind Wang , Miroslav D. Filipovic

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…