A blind test of photometric redshift prediction

David W. Hogg; Judith G. Cohen; Roger Blandford; Stephen D.J. Gwyn; F. D.A. Hartwick; B. Mobasher; Paula Mazzei; Marcin Sawicki; Huan Lin; H. K.C. Yee; Andrew J. Connolly; Robert J. Brunner; Istvan Csabai; Mark Dickinson; Mark U. SubbaRao; Alexander S. Szalay; Alberto Fernández-Soto; Kenneth M. Lanzetta; Amos Yahil

doi:10.1086/300277

A blind test of photometric redshift prediction

David W. Hogg
, Judith G. Cohen
, Roger Blandford
, Stephen D.J. Gwyn
, F. D.A. Hartwick
, B. Mobasher
, Paula Mazzei
, Marcin Sawicki
, Huan Lin
, H. K.C. Yee
, Andrew J. Connolly
, Robert J. Brunner
, Istvan Csabai
, Mark Dickinson
, Mark U. SubbaRao
, Alexander S. Szalay
, Alberto Fernández-Soto
, Kenneth M. Lanzetta
, Amos Yahil

Physics and Astronomy

California Institute of Technology
Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Victoria BC
Imperial College London
Osservatorio Astronomico
University of Toronto
Johns Hopkins University
Eötvös Loránd University
Space Telescope Science Institute
University of New South Wales
Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Results of a blind test of photometric redshift predictions against spectroscopic galaxy redshifts obtained in the Hubble Deep Field with the Keck Telescope are presented. The best photometric redshift schemes predict spectroscopic redshifts with a redshift accuracy of Δz < 0.1 for more than 68% of sources and with Δz < 0.3 for 100%, when single-feature spectroscopic redshifts are removed from consideration. This test shows that photometric redshift schemes work well, at least when the photometric data are of high quality and when the sources are at moderate redshifts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1418-1422
Number of pages	5
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	115
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/300277
State	Published - Apr 1998

Keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Galaxies: photometry
Methods: miscellaneous
Techniques: photometric
Techniques: spectroscopic

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Hogg, D. W., Cohen, J. G., Blandford, R., Gwyn, S. D. J., Hartwick, F. D. A., Mobasher, B., Mazzei, P., Sawicki, M., Lin, H., Yee, H. K. C., Connolly, A. J., Brunner, R. J., Csabai, I., Dickinson, M., SubbaRao, M. U., Szalay, A. S., Fernández-Soto, A., Lanzetta, K. M., & Yahil, A. (1998). A blind test of photometric redshift prediction. Astronomical Journal, 115(4), 1418-1422. https://doi.org/10.1086/300277

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