Collister, A.A.;
Lahav, O.;
(2004)
ANNz: estimating photometric redshifts using artificial neutral networks.
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
, 116
(818)
pp. 345-351.
10.1086/383254.
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Abstract
We introduce ANNz, a freely available software package for photometric redshift estimation using Artificial Neural Networks. ANNz learns the relation between photometry and redshift from an appropriate training set of galaxies for which the redshift is already known. Where a large and representative training set is available ANNz is a highly competitive tool when compared with traditional template-fitting methods. The ANNz package is demonstrated on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1, and for this particular data set the r.m.s. redshift error in the range 0 < z < 0.7 is 0.023. Non-ideal conditions (spectroscopic sets which are small, or which are brighter than the photometric set for which redshifts are required) are simulated and the impact on the photometric redshift accuracy assessed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ANNz: estimating photometric redshifts using artificial neutral networks |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1086/383254 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/383254 |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | 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/9694 |
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