Photometric redshift estimation using Gaussian processes

Details Photometric redshift estimation using Gaussian processes Photometric redshift estimation using Gaussian processes

2009-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/0910.4393v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

8 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS. This version is expanded to test additional observ

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We present a comparison between Gaussian processes (GPs) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) as methods for determining photometric redshifts for galaxies, given training set data. In particular, we compare their degradation in performance as the training set size is degraded in ways which might be caused by the observational limitations of spectroscopy. We find that performance with large, complete training sets is very similar, although the ANN achieves slightly smaller root mean square errors. If the size of the training set is reduced by random sampling, the RMS errors of both methods increase, but they do so to a lesser extent and in a much smoother manner for the case of GP regression. When training objects are removed at redshifts 1.3

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