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Uncertain Photometric Redshifts with Deep Learning Methods

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2017-06-14 v1

Abstract

The need for accurate photometric redshifts estimation is a topic that has fundamental importance in Astronomy, due to the necessity of efficiently obtaining redshift information without the need of spectroscopic analysis. We propose a method for determining accurate multimodal photo-z probability density functions (PDFs) using Mixture Density Networks (MDN) and Deep Convolutional Networks (DCN). A comparison with a Random Forest (RF) is performed.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01979,
  title  = {Uncertain Photometric Redshifts with Deep Learning Methods},
  author = {Antonio D'Isanto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01979},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, Astroinformatics 2016 conference proceeding

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