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We present a study of photometric redshift accuracy in the 3D-HST photometric catalogs, using 3D-HST grism redshifts to quantify and dissect trends in redshift accuracy for galaxies brighter than $H_{F140W}<24$ with an unprecedented and…

Wide, deep photometric surveys require robust photometric redshift estimates (photo-z's) for studies of large-scale structure. These estimates depend critically on accurate photometry. We describe the improvements to the photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Samuel J. Schmidt , Paul Thorman

We outline how redshift-space distortions (RSD) can be measured from the angular correlation function w({\theta}), of galaxies selected from photometric surveys. The natural degeneracy between RSD and galaxy bias can be minimized by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ashley J Ross , Will J Percival , Martin Crocce , Anna Cabre , Enrique Gaztanaga

We present photometric redshifts and associated probability distributions for all detected sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS). The work makes use of the most up-to-date data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Legacy…

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))…

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

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 discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing such a catalogue -- (i) photometrically…

The accurate determination of the true redshift distributions in tomographic bins is critical for cosmological constraints from photometric surveys. The proposed redshift self-calibration method, which utilizes the photometric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

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 accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) will perform a decade-long high-precision wide-field imaging survey that relies on rigorous on-orbit calibration. This necessitates stable celestial benchmark fields to maintain photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Chenxiaoji Ling , Juanjuan Ren , Li Shao , Zhimin Zhou , Peng Wei , Youhua Xu , Jinyu Hu , Xin Zhang , Su Yao , Hu Zhan , Chao Liu

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…

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

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 present photometric redshifts and spectral energy distribution (SED) classifications for a sample of 1542 optically identified sources detected with XMM in the COSMOS field. Our template fitting classifies 46 sources as stars and 464 as…

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,…

China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming powerful Stage IV space-based optical survey equipment. It is expected to explore a number of important cosmological problems in extremely high precision. In this work, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hengjie Lin , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Kwan Chuen Chan , Zuhui Fan , Hu Zhan

Photometric redshift uncertainties are a major source of systematic error for ongoing and future photometric surveys. We study different sources of redshift error caused by choosing a suboptimal redshift histogram bin width and propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Markus Michael Rau , Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Stella Seitz

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming Stage IV galaxy survey. It will simultaneously undertake the photometric redshift (photo-z) and slitless spectroscopic redshift (spec-z) surveys mainly for weak lensing and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Zhejie Ding , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang