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All-sky radio surveys are set to revolutionise the field with new discoveries. However, the vast majority of the tens of millions of radio galaxies won't have the spectroscopic redshift measurements required for a large number of science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , Laurence A. F. Park , X. Rosalind Wang , Miroslav D. Filipovic

We describe a new method for measuring the true redshift distribution of any set of objects studied only photometrically. The angular cross-correlation between objects in a photometric sample with objects in some spectroscopic sample as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey A. Newman

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

We present new fully-automatic classification model to select extragalactic objects within astronomy photometric catalogs. Construction of the our classification model is based on the three important procedures: 1) data representation to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Vladislav Khramtsov , Volodymyr Akhmetov

This work investigates symbolic regression (SR) as an interpretable alternative to black-box machine learning for the classification of stars, galaxies, and quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 17 (SDSS DR17). We conduct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Rachit Deshpande , Shantanu Desai

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

High redshift quasars (HZQs) with redshifts of z >~ 6 are so rare that any photometrically-selected sample of sources with HZQ-like colours is likely to be dominated by Galactic stars and brown dwarfs scattered from the stellar locus. It is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Daniel J. Mortlock , Mitesh Patel , Stephen J. Warren , Paul C. Hewett , Bram P. Venemans , Richard G. McMahon , Chris J. Simpson

We introduce a new method to determine galaxy cluster membership based solely on photometric properties. We adopt a machine learning approach to recover a cluster membership probability from galaxy photometric parameters and finally derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro

Optical spectra of galaxies and quasars from large cosmological surveys are used to measure redshifts and infer distances. They are also rich with information on the intrinsic properties of these astronomical objects. However, their…

A new approach to estimating photometric redshifts - using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - is investigated. Unlike the standard template-fitting photometric redshift technique, a large spectroscopically-identified training set is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew E. Firth , Ofer Lahav , Rachel S. Somerville

In this work, we explore methods to improve galaxy redshift predictions by combining different ground truths. Traditional machine learning models rely on training sets with known spectroscopic redshifts, which are precise but only represent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Jonathan Soriano , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Tuan Do

The wavelength dependence of atmospheric refraction causes differential chromatic refraction (DCR), whereby objects imaged at different optical/UV wavelengths are observed at slightly different positions in the plane of the detector. Strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael C. Kaczmarczik , Gordon T. Richards , Sajjan S. Mehta , David J. Schlegel

We present an analysis of importance feature selection applied to photometric redshift estimation using the machine learning architecture Decision Trees with the ensemble learning routine Adaboost (hereafter RDF). We select a list of 85…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau , Roman Zitlau , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

Although the $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter model is the most accredited cosmological model, information at high redshifts ($z$) between type Ia supernovae ($z=2.26$) and the Cosmic Microwave Background ($z=1100$) is crucial to validate this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Giada Bargiacchi , Aleksander Łukasz Lenart , Salvatore Capozziello

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Adam Broussard , Eric Gawiser

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Maximilian Autenrieth , Angus H. Wright , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , David C. Stenning , Benjamin Joachimi

A simple estimate of the photometric redshift would prove invaluable to forthcoming continuum surveys on the next generation of large radio telescopes, as well as mitigating the existing bias towards the most optically bright sources. While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 S. J. Curran , J. P. Moss

We present variability and multi-wavelength photometric information for the 933 known quasars in the QUEST Variability Survey. These quasars are grouped into variable and non-variable populations based on measured variability confidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam W. Rengstorf , Robert J. Brunner , Brian C. Wilhite

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 present the second public data release (DR) of the VISTA EXtension to Auxiliary Surveys (VEXAS), where we classify objects into stars, galaxies and quasars based on an ensemble of machine learning algorithms. The aim of VEXAS is to build…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 V. Khramtsov , C. Spiniello , A. Agnello , A. Sergeyev