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下一代深射电连续巡天的测光红移-- II。高斯过程和混合估计

Photometric redshifts for the next generation of deep radio continuum surveys - II. Gaussian processes and hybrid estimates

Kenneth J Duncan, Matt J. Jarvis, Michael J. I. Brown, Huub J. A. Rottgering

摘要:

在本系列第一篇论文(Duncan et al. 2018)的基础上,我们提出了一项研究,研究了在深射电连续谱调查中检测到的星系和活动星系核的高斯过程光度红移(photo-z)估计的性能。一个高斯过程的红移代码是用来产生的照片,z估计目标的AGN人口的特定子集-红外,X射线和光学选择AGN -和一般的星系人口。新的AGN人口的估计被发现在z > 1时比我们以前研究中提出的基于模板的photo-z估计有更好的表现。然后,我们的新照片-z估计通过分层贝叶斯组合与模板估计相结合,以产生一个混合的共识估计,在所有源类型中优于任何一种单独的方法。X射线源或光学/IR AGN的射电源的Photo-z估计与以前的仅模板估计相比有了显着改善,离群分数和鲁棒散射减少了约4倍。我们的方法相结合的两个输入的photo-z技术的优势和我们观察到的大的改进的能力说明了它的潜力,使未来的开发深射电连续谱调查的研究星系和黑洞共同进化和宇宙学研究。

英文摘要:

Building on the first paper in this series (Duncan et al. 2018), we present a study investigating the performance of Gaussian process photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. A Gaussian process redshift code is used to produce photo-z estimates targeting specific subsets of both the AGN population - infrared, X-ray and optically selected AGN - and the general galaxy population. The new estimates for the AGN population are found to perform significantly better at z > 1 than the template-based photo-z estimates presented in our previous study. Our new photo-z estimates are then combined with template estimates through hierarchical Bayesian combination to produce a hybrid consensus estimate that outperforms either of the individual methods across all source types. Photo-z estimates for radio sources that are X-ray sources or optical/IR AGN are signficantly improved in comparison to previous template-only estimates, with outlier fractions and robust scatter reduced by up to a factor of ~4. The ability of our method to combine the strengths of the two input photo-z techniques and the large improvements we observe illustrate its potential for enabling future exploitation of deep radio continuum surveys for both the study of galaxy and black hole co-evolution and for cosmological studies.

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