A 0.18-billion-galaxy photometric redshift catalogue from DESI Legacy images is produced with Bayesian neural networks, showing strong results for bright (BGS) and red (LRG) galaxy samples but poor results for emission-line galaxies.
Characterising Improvements in Photometric Redshift Probability Density Functions with Galaxy Morphology
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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 S\'ersic 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.
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Estimating Photometric Redshifts for Galaxies from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys with Bayesian Neural Networks Trained by DESI EDR
A 0.18-billion-galaxy photometric redshift catalogue from DESI Legacy images is produced with Bayesian neural networks, showing strong results for bright (BGS) and red (LRG) galaxy samples but poor results for emission-line galaxies.