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Characterising improvements in photometric redshift probability density functions with galaxy morphology

Soo, JYH; Joachimi, B; (2021) Characterising improvements in photometric redshift probability density functions with galaxy morphology. In: AIP Conference Proceedings. AIP Publishing Green open access

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Abstract

In this work, we studied the impact of galaxy morphology on photometric redshift (photo-z) probability density functions (PDFs). By including galaxy morphological parameters like the radius, axis-ratio, surface brightness and the Sérsic index in addition to the ugriz broadbands as input parameters, we used the machine learning photo-z algorithm ANNZ2 to train and test on galaxies from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe-82 (CS82) Survey. Metrics like the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS), probability integral transform (PIT), Bayesian odds parameter, and even the width and height of the PDFs were evaluated, and the results were compared when different number of input parameters were used during the training process. We find improvements in the CRPS and width of the PDFs when galaxy morphology has been added to the training, and the improvement is larger especially when the number of broadband magnitudes are lacking.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Characterising improvements in photometric redshift probability density functions with galaxy morphology
Event: The 14th Asia-Pacific Physics Conference 2019 (APPC14)
ISBN-13: 9780735440630
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1063/5.0037058
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037058
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123550
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