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基于机器学习的测光红移概率密度估计

Probability density estimation of photometric redshifts based on machine learning

Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia, Valeria Amaro, Civita Vellucci, Giuseppe Longo, Crescenzo Tortora

摘要:

测光红移(photo-z's)提供了另一种方法来估计大样本星系的距离,因此对各种宇宙学问题至关重要。在多年来提出的各种方法中,能够内插通过光谱数据获得的知识的监督机器学习(ML)方法已被证明是非常有效的。METAPHOR(Machine-learning Estimation Tool for Accurate PHOtometric Redshifts)是一种新的方法,旨在提供ML方法预测测光红移误差分布的可靠概率密度函数(PDF)。该方法被实现为模块化工作流程,其用于photo-z估计的内部引擎利用MLPQNA神经网络(具有准牛顿学习规则的多层感知器),并且可以轻松地替换选择用于预测photo-z的特定机器学习模型。在对该软件进行简短描述后,我们对公共星系数据(斯隆数字巡天-数据发布9)的结果进行了总结,并与基于光谱能量分布(SED)模板拟合的完全不同的方法进行了比较。

英文摘要:

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years, supervised machine learning (ML) methods capable to interpolate the knowledge gained by means of spectroscopical data have proven to be very effective. METAPHOR (Machine-learning Estimation Tool for Accurate PHOtometric Redshifts) is a novel method designed to provide a reliable PDF (Probability density Function) of the error distribution of photometric redshifts predicted by ML methods. The method is implemented as a modular workflow, whose internal engine for photo-z estimation makes use of the MLPQNA neural network (Multi Layer Perceptron with Quasi Newton learning rule), with the possibility to easily replace the specific machine learning model chosen to predict photo-z's. After a short description of the software, we present a summary of results on public galaxy data (Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Data Release 9) and a comparison with a completely different method based on Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) template fitting.

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