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Broadband photometry offers a time and cost effective method to reconstruct the continuum emission of celestial objects. Thus, photometric redshift estimation has supported the scientific exploitation of extragalactic multiwavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 S. Fotopoulou , S. Paltani

A notorious problem in astronomy is the recovery of the true shape and spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy despite attenuation by interstellar dust embedded in the same galaxy. This problem has been solved for a few hundred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Jared Siegel , Peter Melchior

We demonstrate a new multi-wavelength technique for two-dimensional parametric modelling of galaxy surface-brightness profiles, which we have incorporated into the widely used software GALFIT. Our new method, named GALFITM, extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marina Vika , Steven P. Bamford , Boris Haeussler , Alex L. Rojas , Andrea Borch , Robert C. Nichol

We forecast cosmological parameter constraints for a cosmic shear analysis of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), defining an analysis framework that can accurately recover the $\Lambda$CDM model in the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 N. C. Robertson , C. Heymans , J. Zuntz , P. Burger , C. D. Leonard , I. G. McCarthy , J. G. Paine , J. Salcido , N. Šarčević , M. Schaller , J. Schaye , M. P. van Daalen

We present a multi-modal foundation model for astrophysical galaxy data, designed to map between simulation- and observation-based galactic features. Our encoder-only transformer flexibly ingests scalar quantities (e.g., redshifts, galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Bin Xia , Nesar Ramachandra , Azton I. Wells , Salman Habib , John Wise

Obtaining the set of cosmological parameters consistent with observational data is an important exercise in current cosmological research. It involves finding the global maximum of the likelihood function in the multi-dimensional parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jayanti Prasad , Tarun Souradeep

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

The current role of data-driven science is constantly increasing its importance within Astrophysics, due to the huge amount of multi-wavelength data collected every day, characterized by complex and high-volume information requiring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Oleksandra Razim , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Longo

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting cosmological information from galaxy surveys deep into the non-linear regime. Despite its great promise, its application is limited by the computational cost of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gemma Zhang , Chirag Modi , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We perform spatially-resolved, pixel-by-pixel SED fitting on galaxies up to $z\sim2.5$ in the Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF). Comparing stellar mass estimates from spatially resolved and spatially unresolved photometry we find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Robert Sorba , Marcin Sawicki

Stage IV cosmological surveys will map the universe with unprecedented precision, reducing statistical uncertainties to levels where unmodelled systematics can significantly bias inference. In particular, photometric redshift (photo-z)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Carolyn McDonald Mill , C. Danielle Leonard , Markus Michael Rau , Cora Uhlemann , Shahab Joudaki

We report new improved photometric redshifts of 1048 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). A standard chi^2 minimizing method is applied to seven-color UBVIJHK photometry by Fernandez-Soto, Lanzetta, & Yahil (1999). We use 187 template…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hisanori Furusawa , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Mamoru Doi , Sadanori Okamura

We present a method to simulate deep sky images, including realistic galaxy morphologies and telescope characteristics. To achieve a wide diversity of simulated galaxy morphologies, we first use the shapelets formalism to parametrize the…

We present a combined photometric calibration of the SNLS and the SDSS supernova survey, which results from a joint effort of the SDSS and the SNLS collaborations. We deliver fluxes calibrated to the HST spectrophotometric star network for…

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe for constraining cosmological parameters, but its success relies on accurate shear measurements. In this paper, we use image simulations to investigate how a joint analysis of high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shiyang Zhang , Shun-Sheng Li , Henk Hoekstra

We use multi-band optical and near-infrared photometric observations of galaxies in the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) to predict photometric redshifts using artificial neural networks. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Derek Wilson , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray , Boris Häußler

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

The upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey poses a challenge of flux calibration, which requires a large number of flux-standard stars. In this work, we design an uncertainty-aware residual attention…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Lin Yang , Haibo Yuan , Fuqing Duan , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Kai Xiao , Shuai Xu , Jinming Zhang

The observable universe contains density perturbations on scales larger than any finite volume survey. Perturbations on scales larger than a survey can measure degrade its power to constrain cosmological parameters. The dependence of survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Matthew C. Digman , Joseph E. McEwen , Christopher M. Hirata