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We present a neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

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The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated time-domain multi-band ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric survey facility under construction. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that assesses the quality of…

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce several billion photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s), enabling cosmological analyses to select a subset of galaxies with the most accurate photo-$z$. We…

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We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A new system with…

As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches percent level precision, large, realistic and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especially given the increased importance of object blending as…

In this work, we develop a simulation-based model to predict the excess surface mass density (ESD) depending on the local density environment. Using a conditional stellar mass function, our foreground galaxies are tailored toward the bright…

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We present a catalogue of photometric redshifts for galaxies from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, which includes $\sim0.18$ billion sources covering 14,000 ${\rm deg}^2$. The photometric redshifts, along with their uncertainties, are estimated…

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We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinzhi Lai , Man I Lam , Jianjun Chen , Xin Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaohan Chen , Jialu Nie , Ming Yang , Chao Liu

The next generation of large scale imaging surveys (such as those conducted with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Euclid) will require accurate photometric redshifts in order to optimally extract cosmological information. Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Zahra Gomes , Matt J. Jarvis , Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Stephen J. Roberts

Studies of the distribution and evolution of galaxies are of fundamental importance to modern cosmology; these studies, however, are hampered by the complexity of the competing effects of spectral and density evolution. Constructing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Brunner , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay

We present a new method for inferring photometric redshifts in deep galaxy and quasar surveys, based on a data driven model of latent spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and a physical model of photometric fluxes as a function of redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

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…

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Precision cosmology requires accurate galaxy redshifts, but next generation optical surveys will observe unprecedented numbers of resolved galaxies, placing strain on the amount of spectroscopic follow-up required. We show how useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Steven Cunnington , Ian Harrison , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…

We describe a new method of combining optical and infrared photometry to select Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) at redshifts $z > 0.6$. We explore this technique using a combination of optical photometry from CFHTLS and HST, infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-27 Abhishek Prakash , Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman , Sandhya M. Rao

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a multiplexed fiber-fed spectrograph, is a Stage-IV ground-based dark energy experiment aiming to measure redshifts for 29 million Emission-Line Galaxies (ELG), 4 million Luminous Red…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Lucas Pinol , Robert N. Cahn , Nick Hand , Uros Seljak , Martin White

With the many ambitious proposals afoot for new generations of very large telescopes, along with spectrographs of unprecedented resolution, there arises the real possibility that the time evolution of the cosmological redshift may, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kayll Lake

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The primary scientific goal of the DES is to constrain…