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We present a new scheme, $\it{galtag}$, for refining the photometric redshift measurements of faint galaxies by probabilistically tagging them to observed galaxy groups constructed from a brighter, magnitude-limited spectroscopy survey.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 P. R. Kafle , A. S. G. Robotham , S. P. Driver , S. Deeley , P. Norberg , M. J. Drinkwater , L. J. Davies

We measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the option to simultaneously estimate dust extinction (i.e. E(B-V))…

A variety of methods have been proposed to define and to quantify galaxy environments. While these techniques work well in general with spectroscopic redshift samples, their application to photometric redshift surveys remains uncertain. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Chuan-Chin Lai , Lihwai Lin , Hung-Yu Jian , Tzi-Hong Chiueh , Alex Merson , Carlton Baugh , Sebastien Foucaud , Chin-Wei Chen , Wen-Ping Chen

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

Aims: We present a custom support vector machine classification package for photometric redshift estimation, including comparisons with other methods. We also explore the efficacy of including galaxy shape information in redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Evan Jones , J. Singal

In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulation data with the prospect of being used on telescope observations. Unfortunately, training a model on simulation data and then applying it to instrument data leads to a substantial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , K. Downey , S. Jenkins , G. N. Perdue , S. Madireddy , T. Johnston , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord

We introduce two new pair statistics, which relate close galaxy pairs to the merger and accretion rates. We demonstrate the importance of correcting these (and other) pair statistics for selection effects related to sample depth and…

We present a galaxy group-finding algorithm, the Photo-z Probability Peaks (P3) algorithm, optimized for locating small galaxy groups using photometric redshift data by searching for peaks in the signal-to-noise of the local overdensity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bryan Gillis , Michael J. Hudson

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…

Our goal is to develop and test a novel methodology to compute accurate close pair fractions with photometric redshifts. We improve the current methodologies to estimate the merger fraction f_m from photometric redshifts by (i) using the…

We present a novel approach to photometric redshifts, one that merges the advantages of both the template fitting and empirical fitting algorithms, without any of their disadvantages. This technique derives a set of templates, describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Csabai , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , T. Budavari

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

We present Mantis Shrimp, a multi-survey deep learning model for photometric redshift estimation that fuses ultra-violet (GALEX), optical (PanSTARRS), and infrared (UnWISE) imagery. Machine learning is now an established approach for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Andrew Engel , Nell Byler , Adam Tsou , Gautham Narayan , Emmanuel Bonilla , Ian Smith

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

In the next years, several cosmological surveys will rely on imaging data to estimate the redshift of galaxies, using traditional filter systems with 4-5 optical broad bands; narrower filters improve the spectral resolution, but strongly…

Photometric redshifts are estimated on the basis of template scenarios with the help of the code ZPEG, an extension of the galaxy evolution model PEGASE.2 and available on the PEGASE web site. The spectral energy distribution (SED)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damien Le Borgne , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange

We present image-based evolution of galaxy mergers from the Illustris cosmological simulation at 12 time-steps over 0.5 < z < 5. To do so, we created approximately one million synthetic deep Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space…

Proposed cosmological surveys will make use of photometric redshifts of galaxies that are significantly fainter than any complete spectroscopic redshift surveys that exist to train the photo-z methods. We investigate the photo-z biases that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. J. MacDonald , Gary Bernstein

We developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), used as a classifier, to estimate photometric redshifts and associated probability distribution functions (PDF) for galaxies in the Main Galaxy Sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Johanna Pasquet , Emmanuel Bertin , Marie Treyer , Stéphane Arnouts , Dominique Fouchez

We present a new training set for estimating empirical photometric redshifts of galaxies, which was created as part of the 2dFLenS project. This training set is located in a 700 sq deg area of the KiDS South field and is randomly selected…