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用高斯过程估算测光红移

Photometric redshift estimation using Gaussian processes

D. G. Bonfield, Y. Sun, N. Davey, M. J. Jarvis, F. B. Abdalla, M. Banerji, R. G. Adams

摘要:

我们提出了一个高斯过程(GP)和人工神经网络(ANN)的方法来确定星系的光度红移,给定的训练集数据之间的比较。特别是,我们比较了它们的性能退化,因为训练集的大小以可能由光谱学的观测限制引起的方式退化。我们发现,大,完整的训练集的性能是非常相似的,虽然ANN实现略小的均方根误差。如果通过随机抽样减少训练集的大小,则两种方法的RMS误差都会增加,但对于GP回归的情况,它们会以更小的程度和更平滑的方式增加。当训练对象在红移1.3<z<1.7处被移除时,为了模拟光谱学的“红移沙漠”的影响,GP回归在跨越红移间隙的插值上是成功的,而ANN在这个红移范围内遭受测试对象的强烈偏差。总的来说,GP回归对于光度红移估计具有吸引人的特性,特别是对于难以获得大的完整训练集的深高红移测量。目前,与人工神经网络代码,公共GP回归代码不考虑光度数据的非均匀测量误差,因此不能估计可靠的预测红移的不确定性。然而,一个更好的治疗错误原则上是可能的,本文中的可喜成果表明,这种改进的GP算法应该追求。(节略)

英文摘要:

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<z<1.7, to simulate the effects of the "redshift desert" of optical spectroscopy, the GP regression is successful at interpolating across the redshift gap, while the ANN suffers from strong bias for test objects in this redshift range. Overall, GP regression has attractive properties for photometric redshift estimation, particularly for deep, high-redshift surveys where it is difficult to obtain a large, complete training set. At present, unlike the ANN code, public GP regression codes do not take account of inhomogeneous measurement errors on the photometric data, and thus cannot estimate reliable uncertainties on the predicted redshifts. However, a better treatment of errors is in principle possible, and the promising results in this paper suggest that such improved GP algorithms should be pursued. (abridged)

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