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We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform this measurement, we cross-correlate with spectroscopic…

Galaxies whose images overlap in the focal plane of a telescope, commonly referred to as blends, are often located at different redshifts. Blending introduces a challenge to weak-lensing cosmology probes since such blends are subject to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zekang Zhang , Daniel Gruen , Luca Tortorelli , Shun-Sheng Li , Jamie McCullough

We apply clustering-based redshift inference to all extended sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric catalogue, down to magnitude r = 22. We map the relationships between colours and redshift, without assumption of the…

We present a method that accurately propagates residual uncertainties in photometric redshift distributions into the cosmological inference from weak lensing measurements. The redshift distributions of tomographic redshift bins are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 B. Stölzner , B. Joachimi , A. Korn , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright

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

Photometric redshift estimation algorithms are often based on representative data from observational campaigns. Data-driven methods of this type are subject to a number of potential deficiencies, such as sample bias and incompleteness.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Nesar Ramachandra , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Alex Alarcon , Arindam Fadikar , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

We seek to improve the accuracy of joint galaxy photometric redshift estimation and spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. By simulating different sources of uncorrected systematic errors, we demonstrate that if the uncertainties on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Viviana Acquaviva , Anand Raichoor , Eric Gawiser

The uncertainty in the photometric redshift estimation is one of the major systematics in weak lensing cosmology. The self-calibration method is able to reduce this systematics without assuming strong priors. We improve the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hui Peng , Haojie Xu , Le Zhang , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

We determine the accuracy of galaxy redshift distributions as estimated from photometric redshift probability distributions $p(z)$. Our method utilises measurements of the angular cross-correlation between photometric galaxies and an…

This paper reports the results obtained on the photometric redshifts measurement and accuracy, and cluster tomography in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) fields. Photometric redshifts were computed using two independent codes (Hyperz…

Improving distance measurements in large imaging surveys is a major challenge to better reveal the distribution of galaxies on a large scale and to link galaxy properties with their environments. Photometric redshifts can be efficiently…

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a $\sim$100 square degree, two-filter imaging survey in the $R_C$ and $z'$ filters, designed primarily to locate and characterise galaxy clusters to redshifts as high as $z=1.4$. This paper provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Michael D. Gladders , Howard K. C. Yee

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) provides a large and deep photometric catalog of galaxies in the $z'$ and $R_c$ bands for ~90 square degrees of sky, and supplemental $V$ and $B$ data have been obtained for 33.6 deg$^{2}$. We compile a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Hsieh , H. K. C. Yee , H. Lin , M. D. Gladders

Determining accurate redshift distributions for very large samples of objects has become increasingly important in cosmology. We investigate the impact of extending cross-correlation based redshift distribution recovery methods to include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Samuel Schmidt , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Christopher Morrison , Cameron McBride

In this paper we introduce the \textsc{Deepz} deep learning photometric redshift (photo-$z$) code. As a test case, we apply the code to the PAU survey (PAUS) data in the COSMOS field. \textsc{Deepz} reduces the $\sigma_{68}$ scatter…

We present a simple, efficient and robust approach to improve cosmological redshift measurements. The method is based on the presence of a reference sample for which a precise redshift number distribution (dN/dz) can be obtained for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Nicolas Tejos , Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla , Joel R. Primack

The effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…