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Discrepancies between cosmological parameter estimates from cosmic shear surveys and from recent Planck cosmic microwave background measurements challenge the ability of the highly successful $\Lambda$CDM model to describe the nature of the…

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enabled the discovery of a significant population of galaxies at z > 10. Our understanding of the astrophysical properties of these galaxies relies on fitting templates developed using models…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Thorbjørn Clausen , Charles L. Steinhardt , Arden Shao , Gaurav Senthil Kumar

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

Aims: We present a custom support vector machine classification package for photometric redshift estimation, including comparisons with other methods. We also explore the efficacy of including galaxy shape information in redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Evan Jones , J. Singal

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

The importance of photometric galaxy redshift estimation is rapidly increasing with the development of specialised powerful observational facilities. We develop a new photometric redshift estimation workflow TOPz to provide reliable and…

The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric redshift distributions is therefore critical for Euclid,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ibrahim A. Almosallam , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen J. Roberts

Galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) is crucial in cosmological studies, such as weak gravitational lensing and galaxy angular clustering measurements. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information and construct its probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Xuelei Chen , Zhu Chen , Wei Du , Liping Fu , Zhijian Luo

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

Photometric redshifts are essential in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology, as they enable analyses of objects too numerous or faint for spectroscopy. The Rubin Observatory, Euclid, and Roman Space Telescope will soon provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel Gruen

We present a new algorithm to estimate quasar photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s), by considering the asymmetries in the relative flux distributions of quasars. The relative flux models are built with multivariate Skew-t distributions in the…

Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of photometric redshift errors and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hiroaki Oyaizu , Marcos Lima , Carlos E. Cunha , Huan Lin , Joshua Frieman

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

Cross-correlations between the galaxy number density in a lensing source sample and that in an overlapping spectroscopic sample can in principle be used to calibrate the lensing source redshift distribution. In this paper, we study in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Sudeep Das

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

We describe the construction of a template set of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for the estimation of photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) with a Bayesian template fitting method. By examining the color properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Natascha Greisel , Stella Seitz , Niv Drory , Ralf Bender , Roberto Saglia , Jan Snigula

Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailability of complete and representative training and validation…

We apply Bayesian statistics with prior probabilities of galaxy surface luminosity (SL) to improve photometric redshifts. We apply the method to a sample of 1266 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the GOODS North and South fields at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lifang Xia , Seth Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Norman Grogin , Nimish P. Hathi , Rogier A. Windhorst , Nor Pirzkal , Chun Xu

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

This study aims to improve the photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) of galaxies by integrating two contemporary methods: template-fitting and machine learning. Finding the synergy between these two methods was not a high priority in the past,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Ishaq Y. K. Alshuaili , John Y. H. Soo , Mohd Zubir Mat Jafri , Yasmin Rafid