Toward more precise photometric redshift estimation
Abstract
We investigate how morphological information of galaxies help us to improve photometric redshift estimation. Using a catalog of morphologically classified bright galaxies derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the statistical properties of different photometrical parameters as a function of morphology are examined. Parameters that best correlates with morphology are used as an additional information to better estimate the redhift. Improvements of several percent are obtained.
- Publication:
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Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307009179
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..241..573V
- Keywords:
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- morphology;
- redshift;
- SDSS