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Spectroscopic redshift surveys are key tools to trace the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe and test the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, using redshifts as distance proxies introduces distortions in the 3D galaxy distribution. If…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Edoardo Maragliano , Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Giulia Degni , Enzo Franco Branchini

In this study, we propose a three-stage training approach of neural networks for both photometric redshift estimation of galaxies and detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. Our approach comprises supervised and unsupervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

Accurate photometric redshifts are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for photometric redshift estimation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Sam N. Lindsay , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

A variety of fundamental astrophysical science topics require the determination of very accurate photometric redshifts (photo-z's). A wide plethora of methods have been developed, based either on template models fitting or on empirical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Massimo Brescia , Civita Vellucci , Crescenzo Tortora , Giuseppe Longo

Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) has the capability to conduct slitless spectroscopic survey simultaneously with photometric survey. The spectroscopic survey will measure slitless spectra, potentially providing more accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xin Zhang , Nan Li , Xian-Min Meng , Xuelei Chen , Run Wen , Yunkun Han , Hu Zou , Xian Zhong Zheng , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Pengjie Zhang

In the last decade a new generation of telescopes and sensors has allowed the production of a very large amount of data and astronomy has become a data-rich science. New automatic methods largely based on machine learning are needed to cope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo

Precision photometric redshifts will be essential for extracting cosmological parameters from the next generation of wide-area imaging surveys. In this paper we introduce a photometric redshift algorithm, ArborZ, based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-06 David W. Gerdes , Adam J. Sypniewski , Timothy A. McKay , Jiangang Hao , Matthew R. Weis , Risa H. Wechsler , Michael T. Busha

Estimating redshifts from broadband photometry is often limited by how accurately we can map the colors of galaxies to an underlying spectral template. Current techniques utilize spectrophotometric samples of galaxies or spectra derived…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 John Franklin Crenshaw , Andrew J. Connolly

This work investigates the use of deep fully convolutional neural networks (DFCNN) for pixel-wise scene labeling of Earth Observation images. Especially, we train a variant of the SegNet architecture on remote sensing data over an urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Nicolas Audebert , Bertrand Le Saux , Sébastien Lefèvre

The explosion of data in recent years has generated an increasing need for new analysis techniques in order to extract knowledge from massive datasets. Machine learning has proved particularly useful to perform this task. Fully automatized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Antonio D'Isanto , Stefano Cavuoti , Fabian Gieseke , Kai Lars Polsterer

Photometric redshifts will be a key data product for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as well as for future ground and space-based surveys. The need for photometric redshifts, or photo-zs, arises from sparse…

Remote sensing of the Earth's surface water is critical in a wide range of environmental studies, from evaluating the societal impacts of seasonal droughts and floods to the large-scale implications of climate change. Consequently, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Joachim Moortgat , Ziwei Li , Michael Durand , Ian Howat , Bidhyananda Yadav , Chunli Dai

Studies of the distribution and evolution of galaxies are of fundamental importance to modern cosmology; these studies, however, are hampered by the complexity of the competing effects of spectral and density evolution. Constructing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Brunner , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay

Astronomy has entered the big data era and Machine Learning based methods have found widespread use in a large variety of astronomical applications. This is demonstrated by the recent huge increase in the number of publications making use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Angora , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo

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 this paper we study the accuracy of photometric redshifts computed through a standard SED fitting procedure, where SEDs are obtained from broad-band photometry. We present our public code hyperz, which is presently available on the web.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Micol Bolzonella , Joan-Marc Miralles , Roser Pello'

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo Motta , Filipe B. Abdalla , Elcio Abdalla , Gabriel S. Costa , Camila Cardoso

Estimating redshift is a central task in astrophysics, but its measurement is costly and time-consuming. In addition, current image-based methods are often validated on homogeneous datasets. The development and comparison of networks able…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Alessandro Meroni , Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago , Piero Fraternali

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
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