Razim, Oleksandra (2021) Improving the reliability of photometric redshift catalogues with Self-Organizing Maps. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Tipologia del documento: | Tesi di dottorato |
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| Lingua: | English |
| Titolo: | Improving the reliability of photometric redshift catalogues with Self-Organizing Maps |
| Autori: | Autore Email Razim, Oleksandra shr.razim@gmail.com |
| Data: | 15 Febbraio 2021 |
| Numero di pagine: | 148 |
| Istituzione: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Dipartimento: | Fisica |
| Dottorato: | Fisica |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 32 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Capozziello, Salvatore capozziello@na.infn.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Longo, Giuseppe [non definito] |
| Data: | 15 Febbraio 2021 |
| Numero di pagine: | 148 |
| Parole chiave: | Machine learning; Unsupervised machine learning; Photometric redshifts |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 02 - Scienze fisiche > FIS/05 - Astronomia e astrofisica |
| Depositato il: | 19 Feb 2021 09:51 |
| Ultima modifica: | 28 Ott 2021 11:59 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/13280 |
Abstract
The already existing and upcoming massive surveys, such as KiDS, DES, Euclid and LSST, bring to reality many exiting possibilities in precision cosmology, as well as galaxy evolution and large-scale structure studies. However, to fully benefit from these surveys, we require redshifts for millions of galaxies. Currently, it is impossible to obtain these redshifts with spectroscopy only, since it would require immense observational time. For this reason, an alternative method, called photometric redshifts (photo-z) is used. This thesis is dedicated to a new data cleaning methodology, that allows to significantly improve the quality of photo-z catalogues and to guarantee the reliability of their quality metrics (i.e., to perform photo-z calibration). This methodology is based on an unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) algorithm called Self-Organizing Maps (SOM). Different components of this methodology allow to tackle several important issues. Namely, in-cell SOM anomaly detection helps to alleviate contamination of a spectral redshift catalogue with unreliable measurements and reduce the percentage of catastrophic outliers in photo-z predictions. Another approach, SOM occupation map calibration, counters the deterioration of the reliability of photo-z catalogues caused by differences between the parameter space of the train and run datasets. The methodology is tested on a deep 30-band photometric catalogue COSMOS2015. Photometric redshifts for this catalogue were obtained using a well-tested supervised ML algorithm MLPQNA. For additional comparison, SED (Spectral Energy Distribution) fitting photo-z were used. For both photo-z methods, the usage of the SOM-based data cleaning methodology reduces the percentage of catastrophic outliers by at least an order with corresponding improvements of other metrics. This result makes the SOM-based data cleaning a highly recommendable tool for preparing photo-z catalogues for the upcoming large surveys.
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