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Accurate and reliable photometric redshift determination is one of the key aspects for wide-field photometric surveys. Determination of photometric redshift for galaxies, has been traditionally solved by use of machine-learning and…

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Around $10^5$ strongly lensed galaxies are expected to be discovered with Euclid and the LSST. Utilising these large samples to study the inner structure of lens galaxies requires source redshifts, to turn lens models into mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Danial Langeroodi , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Henk Hoekstra , Adriano Agnello

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

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

We present redshift probability distributions for galaxies in the SDSS DR8 imaging data. We used the nearest-neighbor weighting algorithm presented in Lima et al. 2008 and Cunha et al. 2009 to derive the ensemble redshift distribution N(z),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Erin S. Sheldon , Carlos Cunha , Rachel Mandelbaum , J. Brinkmann , Benjamin A. Weaver

We present Mantis Shrimp, a multi-survey deep learning model for photometric redshift estimation that fuses ultra-violet (GALEX), optical (PanSTARRS), and infrared (UnWISE) imagery. Machine learning is now an established approach for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Andrew Engel , Nell Byler , Adam Tsou , Gautham Narayan , Emmanuel Bonilla , Ian Smith

A method of obtaining approximate redshifts and spectral types of galaxies using a photometric system of six broad-bandpass filters is developed. The technique utilizes a smallest maximum difference approach rather than a least-squares…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles T. Liu , Richard F. Green

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

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

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

In addition to the maximum likelihood approach, there are two other methods which are commonly used to reconstruct the true redshift distribution from photometric redshift datasets: one uses a deconvolution method, and the other a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ravi K. Sheth , Graziano Rossi

Calibrating the photometric redshifts of >10^9 galaxies for upcoming weak lensing cosmology experiments is a major challenge for the astrophysics community. The path to obtaining the required spectroscopic redshifts for training and…

At high redshift, due to both observational limitations and the variety of galaxy morphologies in the early universe, measuring galaxy structure can be challenging. Non-parametric measurements such as the CAS system have thus become an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 C. Tohill , L. Ferreira , C. J. Conselice , S. P. Bamford , F. Ferrari

We present a method, PhotoWeb, for estimating photometric redshifts of individual galaxies, and their equivalent distance, with megaparsec and even sub-megaparsec accuracy using the Cosmic Web as a constraint over photo-z estimates.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Bahram Mobasher

We present a determination of the effects of including galaxy morphological parameters in photometric redshift estimation with an artificial neural network method. Neural networks, which recognize patterns in the information content of data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Singal , M. Shmakova , B. Gerke , R. L. Griffith , J. Lotz

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) will be crucial for studies of galaxy evolution, large-scale structure, and transients with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Deep learning methods leverage pixel-level information from ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ashod Khederlarian , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Tianqing Zhang , Biprateep Dey

In this paper we present photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, currently the most sensitive optical survey covering the majority of the extra-galactic sky. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Kenneth J. Duncan

The new generation of deep photometric surveys requires unprecedentedly precise shape and photometry measurements of billions of galaxies to achieve their main science goals. At such depths, one major limiting factor is the blending of…

The development of fast and accurate methods of photometric redshift estimation is a vital step towards being able to fully utilize the data of next-generation surveys within precision cosmology. In this paper we apply a specific approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. E. Freeman , J. A. Newman , A. B. Lee , J. W. Richards , C. M. Schafer

Current and future weak lensing surveys will rely on photometrically estimated redshifts of very large numbers of galaxies. In this paper, we address several different aspects of the demanding photo-z performance that will be required for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rongmon Bordoloi , Simon J. Lilly , Adam Amara