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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 a calculation of the systematic component of the error budget in the photometric redshift technique. We make use of it to describe a simple technique that allows for the assignation of confidence limits to redshift measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Fernandez-Soto , K. M. Lanzetta , H. -W. Chen , B. Levine , N. Yahata

We present a study of photometric redshift accuracy in the 3D-HST photometric catalogs, using 3D-HST grism redshifts to quantify and dissect trends in redshift accuracy for galaxies brighter than $H_{F140W}<24$ with an unprecedented and…

Wide-area imaging surveys are one of the key ways of advancing our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation physics, and the large-scale structure of the Universe in the coming years. These surveys typically require calculating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 P. W. Hatfield , I. A. Almosallam , M. J. Jarvis , N. Adams , R. A. A. Bowler , Z. Gomes , S. J. Roberts , C. Schreiber

A new method is developed for estimating photometric redshifts, using realistic template SEDs, extending over four decades in wavelength (i.e from 0.05 $\mu m$ to 1 mm). The SEDs are constructed for four different spectral types of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Mobasher , P. Mazzei

We extend existing methods for using cross-correlations to derive redshift distributions for photometric galaxies, without using photometric redshifts. The model presented in this paper simultaneously yields highly accurate and unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Marcel P. van Daalen , Martin White

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

The forthcoming CSST wide-field multiband imaging survey will produce seven-band photometric spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for billions of galaxies. The effective extraction of astronomical information from these massive datasets of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Yunkun Han , Lulu Fan , XianZhong Zheng , Jin-Ming Bai , Zhanwen Han

In addition to the maximum likelihood approach, there are two other methods which are commonly used to reconstruct the true redshift distribution from photometric redshift datasets: one uses a deconvolution method, and the other a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ravi K. Sheth , Graziano Rossi

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

Determining photometric redshifts to high accuracy is paramount to measure distances in wide-field cosmological experiments. With only photometric information at hand, photo-zs are prone to systematic uncertainties in the intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Z. Ansari , A. Agnello , C. Gall

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) are crucial for the cosmology, galaxy evolution, and transient science drivers of next-generation imaging facilities like the Euclid Mission, the Rubin Observatory, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Emma R. Moran , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey

Estimating redshifts from broadband photometry is often limited by how accurately we can map the colors of galaxies to an underlying spectral template. Current techniques utilize spectrophotometric samples of galaxies or spectra derived…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 John Franklin Crenshaw , Andrew J. Connolly

Clusters of galaxies are important laboratories for understanding both galaxy evolution and constraining cosmological quantities. Any analysis of clusters, however, is best done when one can reliably determine which galaxies are members of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Brunner , L. M. Lubin

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

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

Star-galaxy classification is one of the most fundamental data-processing tasks in survey astronomy, and a critical starting point for the scientific exploitation of survey data. For bright sources this classification can be done with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-30 Marc Henrion , Daniel J. Mortlock , David J. Hand , Axel Gandy

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) are fundamental in galaxy surveys to address different topics, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), i.e. the ESO public survey on the…

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

We derive an estimator of weak gravitational lensing shear from background galaxy images that avoids noise-induced biases through a rigorous Bayesian treatment of the measurement. The derived shear estimator disposes with the assignment of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gary M. Bernstein , Robert Armstrong