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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a flagship space mission, designed to carry out a large-area sky survey to explore the nature of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. The onboard multi-band imaging and slitless…

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Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

Upcoming next-generation sky surveys will detect large number of faint objects with magnitudes larger than 25. When objects are crowded within a limited a field of view, blending becomes unavoidable. Blending leads to the omission of many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yibo Yan , Chao Liu , Jiadong Li , Feng Wang

Large-scale structure (LSS) analysis in galaxy surveys is a powerful cosmological probe but is limited by tracer bias, which can obscure underlying information and weaken parameter constraints. Existing methods either model bias or restrict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zhujun Jiang , Xiaolin Luo , Wenying Du , Zhiwei Min , Fenfen Yin , Longlong Feng , Jiacheng Ding , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Aims. Traditional star-galaxy classification techniques often rely on feature estimation from catalogues, a process susceptible to introducing inaccuracies, thereby potentially jeopardizing the classification's reliability. Certain…

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The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey will observe objects to a limiting magnitude of ~ 23 mag (5$\sigma$, point sources) in U, V, and I over 17500 deg$^2$. The spectroscopic observations are expected to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-29 Run Wen , Xian Zhong Zheng , Yunkun Han , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Wang , Hu Zou , Fengshan Liu , Xin Zhang , Ying Zu , Dong Dong Shi , Yizhou Gu , Yirong Wang

The estimation of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts (spec-z and photo-z) is crucial for future cosmological surveys. It can directly affect several powerful measurements of the Universe, e.g. weak lensing and galaxy clustering. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xin Zhang , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Valeria Amaro , Zuhui Fan , Liping Fu

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large-scale astronomical surveys through photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation. Photo-z uncertainty estimates are critical for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

Double source plane strong lensing (DSPL) systems offer a robust, independent probe of cosmological parameters. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is expected to discover hundreds of DSPLs, yet the survey modes and system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bei-Chen Wu , Xiaoyue Cao , Nan Li , Yan Gong , Shenzhe Cui , Di Wu , Tong Zhao , Junhui Yan

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band observation capabilities. It can simultaneously conduct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 CSST Collaboration , Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Hu Zhan , Zhao-Yu Li , Jinyi Shangguan , Haining Li , Chao Liu , Xuefei Chen , Haibo Yuan , Jilin Zhou , Hui-Gen Liu , Cong Yu , Jianghui Ji , Zhaoxiang Qi , Jiacheng Liu , Zigao Dai , Xiaofeng Wang , Zhenya Zheng , Lei Hao , Jiangpei Dou , Yiping Ao , Zhenhui Lin , Kun Zhang , Wei Wang , Guotong Sun , Ran Li , Guoliang Li , Youhua Xu , Xinfeng Li , Shengyang Li , Peng Wu , Jiuxing Zhang , Bo Wang , Jinming Bai , Yi-Fu Cai , Zheng Cai , Jie Cao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Jin Chang , Xiaodian Chen , Xuelei Chen , Yuqin Chen , Yun Chen , Wei Cui , Subo Dong , Pu Du , Wenying Duan , Junhui Fan , LuLu Fan , Zhou Fan , Zuhui Fan , Taotao Fang , Jianning Fu , Liping Fu , Zhensen Fu , Jian Gao , Shenghong Gu , Yidong Gu , Qi Guo , Zhanwen Han , Bin Hu , Zhiqi Huang , Luis C. Ho , Linhua Jiang , Ning Jiang , Yipeng Jing , Xi Kang , Xu Kong , Cheng Li , Chengyuan Li , Di Li , Jing Li , Nan Li , Yang A. Li , Shilong Liao , Weipeng Lin , Fengshan Liu , Jifeng Liu , Xiangkun Liu , Zhuokai Liu , Ruiqing Mao , Shude Mao , Xianmin Meng , Xiaoying Pang , Xiyan Peng , Yingjie Peng , Huanyuan Shan , Juntai Shen , Shiyin Shen , Zhiqiang Shen , Sheng-Cai Shi , Yong Shi , Siyuan Tan , Hao Tian , Jianmin Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Xin Wang , Yuting Wang , Hong Wu , Jingwen Wu , Xuebing Wu , Chun Xu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yongquan Xue , Ji Yang , Xiaohu Yang , Qijun Yao , Fangting Yuan , Zhen Yuan , Jun Zhang , Pengjie Zhang , Tianmeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Gang Zhao , Gongbo Zhao , Hongen Zhong , Jing Zhong , Liyong Zhou , Wei Zhu , Ying Zu

The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm, is expected to start science operations in 2024. An ultra-deep field observation program covering approximately 10 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Shi-Yu Li , Yun-Long Li , Tianmeng Zhang , Jozsef Vinko , Eniko Regos , Xiaofeng Wang , Gaobo Xi , Hu Zhan

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) presents significant potential for high-precision astrometry. In this study, we show that the point spread function (PSF) modeled by the discrete PSF with Multi-Gaussian function can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jialu Nie , Peng Wei , Zihuang Cao , Yibo Yan , Chao Liu , Hao Tian , Xin Zhang , Haijun Tian

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) photometric survey aims to perform a high spatial resolution (~0.15'') photometric imaging for the targets that cover a large sky area (~17,500 deg^2) and wide wavelength range (from NUV to NIR). It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Chun Xu

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a two-meter space telescope with multiple back-end instruments. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) is an essential subsystem of the CSST Precision Image Stability System to ensure the required…

Galaxy-scale strong lenses in galaxy clusters provide a unique tool to investigate their inner mass distribution and the sub-halo density profiles in the low-mass regime, which can be compared with the predictions from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 G. Angora , P. Rosati , M. Meneghetti , M. Brescia , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , G. Caminha , M. Nonino , L. Tortorelli , L. Bazzanini , E. Vanzella

We present a method that enables wide field ground-based telescopes to scan the sky for sub-second stellar variability. The method has operational and image processing components. The operational component is to take star trail images. Each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 David Thomas , Steven M Kahn