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

The technique of photometric redshifts has become essential for the exploitation of multi-band extragalactic surveys. While the requirements on photo-zs for the study of galaxy evolution mostly pertain to the precision and to the fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Euclid Collaboration , Stéphane Paltani , J. Coupon , W. G. Hartley , A. Alvarez-Ayllon , F. Dubath , J. J. Mohr , M. Schirmer , J. -C. Cuillandre , G. Desprez , O. Ilbert , K. Kuijken , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , S. V. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. -M. Niemi , J. Nightingale , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , C. Surace , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , S. Bardelli , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Farina , J. Graciá-Carpio , V. Lindholm , D. Maino , N. Mauri , C. Neissner , V. Scottez , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. Biviano , A. Blanchard , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , G. Castignani , K. Chambers , A. R. Cooray , H. M. Courtois , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , J. A. Escartin , S. Escoffier , F. Finelli , S. Fotopoulou , K. Ganga , K. George , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , I. Hook , A. Jimenez Muñoz , B. Joachimi , V. Kansal , E. Keihanen , C. C. Kirkpatrick , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , R. Maoli , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , L. Patrizii , J. E. Pollack , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , L. Pozzetti , M. Pöntinen , P. Reimberg , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , J. Steinwagner , R. Teyssier , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , S. E. van Mierlo , A. Veropalumbo , M. Viel , J. R. Weaver

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler of known physical length, making it a promising probe of the nature of dark energy. The detection of BAO requires measuring galaxy positions and redshifts. "Transversal" (angular…

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

We compute photometric redshifts based on the template-fitting method in the fourth public release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. This unique multi-colour catalogue comprises u*,g',r',i',z' photometry in four deep…

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

In this paper we present and characterize a nearest-neighbors color-matching photometric redshift estimator that features a direct relationship between the precision and accuracy of the input magnitudes and the output photometric redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Melissa L. Graham , Andrew J. Connolly , Željko Ivezić , Samuel J. Schmidt , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Jurić , Scott F. Daniel , Peter Yoachim

We present improved methods for using stars found in astronomical exposures to calibrate both star and galaxy colors as well as to adjust the instrument flat field. By developing a spectroscopic model for the SDSS stellar locus in…

We present the combination of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CHFT) Large Area $U$-bands Deep Survey (CLAUDS) and the Hyper-Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) data over their four deep fields. We provide photometric…

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 cross-match the two currently largest all-sky photometric catalogs, mid-infrared WISE and SuperCOSMOS scans of UKST/POSS-II photographic plates, to obtain a new galaxy sample that covers 3pi steradians. In order to characterize and…

We describe a new test of photometric redshift performance given a spectroscopic redshift sample. This test complements the traditional comparison of redshift {\it differences} by testing whether the probability density functions $p(z)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 David Wittman , Ramya Bhaskar , Ryan Tobin

In this paper we advance the simple analytic photometric redshift estimator for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) proposed by Wang (2007), and use it to study simulated SN Ia data. We find that better than 0.5% accuracy in z_phot (with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yun Wang , Gautham Narayan , Michael Wood-Vasey

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

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

We use the photometric redshift method of Chakrabarti & McKee (2008) to infer photometric redshifts of submillimeter galaxies with far-IR (FIR) $\it{Herschel}$ data obtained as part of the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) program. For the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Benjamin Magnelli , Christopher F. McKee , Dieter Lutz , Stefano Berta , Paola Popesso , Francesca Pozzi

Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of photometric redshift errors and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hiroaki Oyaizu , Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Huan Lin , Joshua Frieman

We investigate the use of simple colour cuts applied to the SDSS optical imaging to perform photometric selections of emission line galaxies out to z<1. From colour-cuts using the SDSS g, r and i bands, we obtain mean photometric redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rich Bielby , T. Shanks , U. Sawangwit , S. M. Croom , Nicholas P. Ross , D. A. Wake

We present an empirical algorithm for obtaining photometric redshifts of quasars using 5-band Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. Our algorithm generates an empirical model of the quasar color-redshift relation, compares the colors…