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most citedPhotometric redshifts for the Kilo-Degree Survey. Machine-learning analysis with artificial neural networks

74 citations · 298 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2018★ 26 cited

Statistical analysis of probability density functions for photometric redshifts through the KiDS-ESO-DR3 galaxies

Valeria Amaro, Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia +8

Despite the high accuracy of photometric redshifts (zphot) derived using Machine Learning (ML) methods, the quantification of errors through reliable and accurate Probability Densi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 67 cited

Evolution of galaxy size--stellar mass relation from the Kilo Degree Survey

N. Roy, N. R. Napolitano, F. La Barbera +16

We have obtained structural parameters of about 340,000 galaxies from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) in 153 square degrees of data release 1, 2 and 3. We have performed a seeing con…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 9 cited

Data Deluge in Astrophysics: Photometric Redshifts as a Template Use Case

Massimo Brescia, Stefano Cavuoti, Valeria Amaro +4

Astronomy has entered the big data era and Machine Learning based methods have found widespread use in a large variety of astronomical applications. This is demonstrated by the rec…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 74 cited

Photometric redshifts for the Kilo-Degree Survey. Machine-learning analysis with artificial neural networks

M. Bilicki, H. Hoekstra, M. J. I. Brown +24

We present a machine-learning photometric redshift analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3, using two neural-network based techniques: ANNz2 and MLPQNA. Despite limited c…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

Probability density estimation of photometric redshifts based on machine learning

Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia, Valeria Amaro +3

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 pro…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 3 cited

METAPHOR: Probability density estimation for machine learning based photometric redshifts

Valeria Amaro, Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia +3

We present METAPHOR (Machine-learning Estimation Tool for Accurate PHOtometric Redshifts), a method able to provide a reliable PDF for photometric galaxy redshifts estimated throug…