Search Results for author: Peter Capak

Found 2 papers, 1 papers with code

Weighing the Giants II: Improved Calibration of Photometry from Stellar Colors and Accurate Photometric Redshifts

1 code implementation2 Aug 2012 Patrick L. Kelly, Anja von der Linden, Douglas E. Applegate, Mark T. Allen, Steven W. Allen, Patricia R. Burchat, David L. Burke, Harald Ebeling, Peter Capak, Oliver Czoske, David Donovan, Adam Mantz, R. Glenn Morris

We test the accuracy of our photometric redshifts using spectroscopic redshifts z_s for ~5000 galaxies in 27 cluster fields with at least five bands of photometry, as well as galaxies in the COSMOS field, finding sigma((z_p - z_s)/(1 + z_s)) ~ 0. 03 for the most probable redshift z_p.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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