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EDP Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (671), p. A153, 2023

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245027

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The PAU Survey and Euclid: Improving broadband photometric redshifts with multi-task learning

Journal article published in 2023 by L. Cabayol ORCID, M. Eriksen ORCID, J. Carretero ORCID, R. Casas ORCID, F. J. Castander ORCID, E. Fernández, J. Garcia-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, H. Hildebrandt ORCID, H. Hoekstra ORCID, B. Joachimi, R. Miquel ORCID, C. Padilla ORCID, A. Pocino, E. Sanchez ORCID and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Current and future imaging surveys require photometric redshifts (photo-zs) to be estimated for millions of galaxies. Improving the photo-z quality is a major challenge but is needed to advance our understanding of cosmology. In this paper we explore how the synergies between narrow-band photometric data and large imaging surveys can be exploited to improve broadband photometric redshifts. We used a multi-task learning (MTL) network to improve broadband photo-z estimates by simultaneously predicting the broadband photo-z and the narrow-band photometry from the broadband photometry. The narrow-band photometry is only required in the training field, which also enables better photo-z predictions for the galaxies without narrow-band photometry in the wide field. This technique was tested with data from the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) in the COSMOS field. We find that the method predicts photo-zs that are 13% more precise down to magnitude iAB < 23; the outlier rate is also 40% lower when compared to the baseline network. Furthermore, MTL reduces the photo-z bias for high-redshift galaxies, improving the redshift distributions for tomographic bins with z > 1. Applying this technique to deeper samples is crucial for future surveys such as Euclid or LSST. For simulated data, training on a sample with iAB < 23, the method reduces the photo-z scatter by 16% for all galaxies with iAB < 25. We also studied the effects of extending the training sample with photometric galaxies using PAUS high-precision photo-zs, which reduces the photo-z scatter by 20% in the COSMOS field.