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To address the challenge of estimating redshifts when only single-band images are available, this study introduces a deep learning model named ViT-MDNz. Leveraging robust statistical priors learned from large-scale data concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Zhijian Luo , Yangyang Li , Jianzhen Chen , Qishen Cao , Duo Cao , Shaohua Zhang , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

Many of the cosmological tests to be performed by planned dark energy experiments will require extremely well-characterized photometric redshift measurements. Current estimates are that the true mean redshift of the objects in each photo-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

We use the mock catalog of galaxies, constructed based on the COSMOS galaxy catalog including information on photometric redshifts (photo-z) and SED types of galaxies, in order to study how to define a galaxy subsample suitable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Hisanori Furusawa

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

The search for fast optical transients, such as the expected electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, is riddled with false positives ranging from asteroids to stellar flares. While moving objects are readily rejected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 A. A. Miller , M. K. Kulkarni , Y. Cao , R. R. Laher , F. J. Masci , J. A. Surace

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

Normalizing flows model probability distributions through an expressive tractable density. They transform a simple base distribution, such as a Gaussian, through a sequence of invertible functions, which are referred to as layers. These…

State-of-the-art galaxy formation simulations generate data within weeks or months. Their results consist of a random sub-sample of possible galaxies with a fixed number of stars. We propose a ML based method, GalacticFlow, that generalizes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-12 Luca Wolf , Tobias Buck

The next generation of proposed galaxy surveys will increase the number of galaxies with photometric redshifts by two orders of magnitude, drastically expanding both redshift range and detection threshold from the current state of the art.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. E. Schulz

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) survey at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) will use a new optical camera (PAUCam) with a large set of narrow-band filters to perform a photometric galaxy survey with a quasi-spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Pol Martí , Ramon Miquel , Francisco J. Castander , Enrique Gaztañaga , Martin Eriksen , Carles Sánchez

We present a photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimation technique for galaxies in the P\lowercase{an}-STARRS1 (PS1) $3\pi $ survey. Specifically, we train and test a regression and a classification Random-Forest (RF) models using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 A. Baldeschi , M. Stroh , R. Margutti , T. Laskar , A. Miller

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

Normalizing flows define a probability distribution by an explicit invertible transformation $\boldsymbol{\mathbf{z}}=f(\boldsymbol{\mathbf{x}})$. In this work, we present implicit normalizing flows (ImpFlows), which generalize normalizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-18 Cheng Lu , Jianfei Chen , Chongxuan Li , Qiuhao Wang , Jun Zhu

The accuracy of galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) can significantly affect the analysis of weak gravitational lensing measurements, especially for future high-precision surveys. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) is crucial for cosmological surveys. Various methods have been developed for this purpose, such as template fitting methods and machine learning techniques, each with its own…

In the era of large sky surveys, photometric redshifts (photo-z) represent crucial information for galaxy evolution and cosmology studies. In this work, we propose a new Machine Learning (ML) tool called Galaxy morphoto-Z with neural…

We report the first analytical expression purely constructed by a machine to determine photometric redshifts ($z_{\rm phot}$) of galaxies. A simple and reliable functional form is derived using $41,214$ galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Krone-Martins , E. E. O. Ishida , R. S. de Souza

We present a structure finding algorithm designed to identify galaxy groups in photometric redshift data sets: the probability friends-of-friends (pFoF) algorithm. This algorithm is derived by combining the friends-of-friends algorithm in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I-hui Li , Howard K. C. Yee