TailZ: Redshift distributions estimator of photometric samples of galaxies
Abstract
TailZ estimates redshift distributions of photometric samples of galaxies selected photometrically given a subsample with measured spectroscopic redshifts. The approach uses a non-parametric Voronoi tessellation density estimator to interpolate the galaxy distribution in the redshift and photometric color space. The Voronoi tessellation estimator performs well at reconstructing the tails of the redshift distribution of individual galaxies and gives unbiased estimates of the first and second moments.
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- February 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016ascl.soft02013G
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- Software