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Machine learning techniques offer a precious tool box for use within astronomy to solve problems involving so-called big data. They provide a means to make accurate predictions about a particular system without prior knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 (DR6). We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor…

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

Several papers have recently highlighted the possibility of measuring redshift space distortions from angular auto-correlations of galaxies in photometric redshift bins. In this work we extend this idea to include as observables the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Jacobo Asorey , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

Photo-z algorithms that utilize SED template fitting have matured, and are widely adopted for use on high-redshift near-infrared data that provides a unique window into the early universe. Alternative photo-z methods have been developed,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Grant Merz , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Junyao Li , Qian Yang , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , John Franklin Crenshaw

I present a new approach at deriving far-infrared photometric redshifts for galaxies based on their reprocessed emission from dust at rest-frame far-infrared through millimeter wavelengths. Far-infrared photometric redshifts ("FIR-$z$")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Caitlin M. Casey

We report new improved photometric redshifts of 1048 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). A standard chi^2 minimizing method is applied to seven-color UBVIJHK photometry by Fernandez-Soto, Lanzetta, & Yahil (1999). We use 187 template…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hisanori Furusawa , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Mamoru Doi , Sadanori Okamura

We present a study of photometric redshift performance for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. Using two multi-wavelength datasets, over the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Bo\"otes and COSMOS fields,…

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

With the growth of large photometric surveys, accurately estimating photometric redshifts, preferably as a probability density function (PDF), and fully understanding the implicit systematic uncertainties in this process has become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

The success of future large scale weak lensing surveys will critically depend on the accurate estimation of photometric redshifts of very large samples of galaxies. This in turn depends on both the quality of the photometric data and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Bordoloi , S. J. Lilly , A. Amara , P. A. Oesch , S. Bardelli , E. Zucca , D. Vergani , T. Nagao , T. Murayama , Y. Shioya , Y. Taniguchi

Photometric redshifts are essential in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology, as they enable analyses of objects too numerous or faint for spectroscopy. The Rubin Observatory, Euclid, and Roman Space Telescope will soon provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel Gruen

The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric redshift distributions is therefore critical for Euclid,…

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

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

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

When analyzing galaxy clustering in multi-band imaging surveys, there is a trade-off between selecting the largest galaxy samples (to minimize the shot noise) and selecting samples with the best photometric redshift (photo-z) precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Chihway Chang , Joshua Frieman

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

A precise measurement of photometric redshifts (photo-z) is key for the success of modern photometric galaxy surveys. Machine learning (ML) methods show great promise in this context, but suffer from covariate shift (CS) in training sets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chiara Moretti , Maximilian Autenrieth , Riccardo Serra , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , Andrei Mesinger

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) will be crucial for studies of galaxy evolution, large-scale structure, and transients with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Deep learning methods leverage pixel-level information from ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ashod Khederlarian , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Tianqing Zhang , Biprateep Dey
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