Automatic Redshift Determination by use of Principal Component Analysis --- I: Fundamentals

Details Automatic Redshift Determination by use of Principal Component Analysis --- I: Fundamentals Automatic Redshift Determination by use of Principal Component Analysis --- I: Fundamentals

1997-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707140v2

Astrophys.J.492:98-109,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 9 Figures, minor revisions, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/305039

With the advent of very large redshift surveys of tens to hundreds of thousands of galaxies reliable techniques for automatically determining galaxy redshifts are becoming increasingly important. The most common technique currently in common use is the cross-correlation of a galactic spectrum with a set of templates. This series of papers presents a new method based on Principal Component Analysis. The method generalizes the cross-correlation approach by replacing the individual templates by a simultaneous linear combination of orthogonal templates. This effectively eliminates the mismatch between templates and data and provides for the possibility of better error estimates. In this paper, the first of a series, the basic mathematics are presented along with a simple demonstration of the application.

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