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We study the impact of catastrophic errors occurring in the photometric redshifts of galaxies on cosmological parameter estimates with cosmic shear tomography. We consider a fiducial survey with 9-filter set and perform photo-z measurement…

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A goal of forthcoming imaging surveys is to use weak gravitational lensing shear measurements to constrain dark energy. We quantify the importance of uncalibrated photometric redshift outliers to the dark energy goals of forthcoming imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Zhaoming Ma , Dragan Huterer

Intrinsic alignment (IA) modelling and photometric redshift estimation are two of the main sources of systematic uncertainty in weak lensing surveys. We investigate the impact of redshift errors and their interplay with different IA models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-26 Silvan Fischbacher , Tomasz Kacprzak , Jonathan Blazek , Alexandre Refregier

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, $n(z)$, through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our $\rm 3\times2pt$ configuration is comprised of photometric shear, spectroscopic…

We present results of using individual galaxies' redshift probability information derived from a photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithm, SPIDERz, to identify potential catastrophic outliers in photometric redshift determinations. By using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-07 Evan Jones , J. Singal

We study the sensitivity of weak lensing surveys to the effects of catastrophic redshift errors - cases where the true redshift is misestimated by a significant amount. To compute the biases in cosmological parameters, we adopt an efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Gary Bernstein , Dragan Huterer

We present results of using individual galaxies' probability distribution over redshift as a method of identifying potential catastrophic outliers in empirical photometric redshift estimation. In the course of developing this approach we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-04 M. Wyatt , J. Singal

Spectroscopic redshift errors, including redshift uncertainty and catastrophic failures, can bias cosmological measurements from galaxy redshift surveys at sub-percent level. In this work, we investigate their impact on the full-shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shengyu He , Jiaxi Yu , Antoine Rocher , Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Jean-Paul Kneib , Cheng Zhao , Etienne Burtin , Jiamin Hou

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

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

We present a systematic study of cosmological parameter bias in weak lensing and large-scale structure analyses for upcoming imaging surveys induced by the interplay of intrinsic alignments (IA) and photometric redshift (photo-z) model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 C. Danielle Leonard , Markus Michael Rau , Rachel Mandelbaum

Weak lensing surveys are reaching sensitivities at which uncertainties in the galaxy redshift distributions n(z) from photo-z errors degrade cosmological constraints. We use ray-tracing simulations and a simple treatment of photo-z errors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Matthew W. Abruzzo , Zoltán Haiman

Calibrating photometric redshift errors in weak lensing surveys with external data is extremely challenging. We show that both Gaussian and outlier photo-z parameters can be self-calibrated from the data alone. This comes at no cost for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-22 Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro , Uroš Seljak

Uncertainties in the radial distribution of galaxies, $\boldsymbol{n}(\boldsymbol{z})$, are one of the major contributions to the error budget of early Stage-IV galaxy survey analyses of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering and…

We present the result of two binary classifier ensembled neural networks to identify catastrophic outliers for photo-z estimates within the COSMOS field utilizing only 8 and 5 photometric band passes, respectively. Our neural networks can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Mitchell T. Dennis , Esther M. Hu , Lennox L. Cowie

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

Upcoming photometric lensing surveys will considerably tighten constraints on the neutrino mass and the dark energy equation of state. Nevertheless it remains an open question of how to optimally extract the information and how well the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Peter L. Taylor , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

Stage IV large scale structure surveys are promising probes of gravity on cosmological scales. Due to the vast model-space in the modified gravity literature, model-independent parameterisations represent useful and scalable ways to test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Daniel B Thomas , Peter L. Taylor

Determining cosmological parameters with high precision, as well as resolving current tensions in their values derived from low and high redshift probes, is one of the main objectives of the new generation of cosmological surveys. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Marc Alemany-Gotor , Isaac Tutusaus , Pablo Fosalba
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