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This work uses hierarchical logistic Gaussian processes to infer true redshift distributions of samples of galaxies, through their cross-correlations with spatially overlapping spectroscopic samples. We demonstrate that this method can…

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We describe a new test of photometric redshift performance given a spectroscopic redshift sample. This test complements the traditional comparison of redshift {\it differences} by testing whether the probability density functions $p(z)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 David Wittman , Ramya Bhaskar , Ryan Tobin

The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the first application of photometric redshifts…

We investigate the expected accuracy of redshifts that can be obtained using low-resolution spectroscopic (medium-band) data from the 7-Dimensional Sky Survey (7DS). By leveraging 40 densely sampled filters with widths of full width at half…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Eunhee Ko , Myungshin Im , Yujin Yang , Ji Hoon Kim , Seong-Kook Lee , Gregory S. -H. Paek

Photometric redshifts are a key component of many science objectives in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). In this paper, we describe and compare the codes used to compute photometric redshifts for HSC-SSP, how we…

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample, The Galaxy Evolution Explorer All Sky Survey, and The Two Micron All Sky Survey using two new training-set methods. We utilize the broad-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Way , A. N. Srivastava

We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing such a catalogue -- (i) photometrically…

In this paper we present and characterize a nearest-neighbors color-matching photometric redshift estimator that features a direct relationship between the precision and accuracy of the input magnitudes and the output photometric redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Melissa L. Graham , Andrew J. Connolly , Željko Ivezić , Samuel J. Schmidt , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Jurić , Scott F. Daniel , Peter Yoachim

We present a new training set for estimating empirical photometric redshifts of galaxies, which was created as part of the 2dFLenS project. This training set is located in a 700 sq deg area of the KiDS South field and is randomly selected…

Photometric redshifts are necessary for enabling large-scale multicolour galaxy surveys to interpret their data and constrain cosmological parameters. While the increased depth of future surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Daniel M. Jones , Alan F. Heavens

We use N-body-spectro-photometric simulations to investigate the impact of incompleteness and incorrect redshifts in spectroscopic surveys to photometric redshift training and calibration and the resulting effects on cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Carlos E. Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Huan Lin , Michael T. Busha , Risa H. Wechsler

We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

Photometric Redshift is critical for analyzing astronomical objects, but existing ML methods often overlook the aleatoric uncertainties inherent in observed data. We introduce Starkindler, a novel training objective that explicitly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Raahul Singh , Ashutosh Pandey

We use the deepest and most complete redshift catalog currently available (the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) North supplemented by new HDF South redshift data) to minimize residuals between photometric and spectroscopic redshift estimates. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Massarotti , A. Iovino , A. Buzzoni , D. Valls--Gabaud

We discuss the stability of the photometric redshift estimate obtained with the SED fitting method with respect to the choice of the galaxy templates. Within the observational uncertainty and photometric errors, we find satisfactory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Massarotti , A. Iovino , A. Buzzoni

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We present a neural network based approach to the determination of photometric redshift. The method was tested on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release (SDSS-EDR) reaching an accuracy comparable and, in some cases, better than SED…

In this paper, we present the methodology of photometric redshift determination with the BATC 15-color system by using hyperz program. Both simulated galaxies and real galaxies with known redshifts were used to estimate the accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lifang Xia , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Hong Wu , Wei-Hsin Sun , Zhaoji Jiang , Suijian Xue , Jiansheng Chen , Wenping Chen

We present a new machine learning model for estimating photometric redshifts with improved accuracy for galaxies in Pan-STARRS1 data release 1. Depending on the estimation range of redshifts, this model based on neural networks can handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

A variety of fundamental astrophysical science topics require the determination of very accurate photometric redshifts (photo-z's). A wide plethora of methods have been developed, based either on template models fitting or on empirical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Massimo Brescia , Civita Vellucci , Crescenzo Tortora , Giuseppe Longo