Support vector machines for photometric redshift measurement of quasars

Hongwen Zheng; Yanxia Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.925761

24 September 2012 Support vector machines for photometric redshift measurement of quasars

Hongwen Zheng, Yanxia Zhang

Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 845133 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925761
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Based on photometric and spectroscopic data of quasars from SDSS DR7 and UKDISS DR7, support vector machines (SVM) is applied to predict photometric redshifts of quasars. Different input patterns are tried and the best pattern is presented. Comparing the results using optical data with that using optical and infrared data, the experimental results show that the accuracy improves with data from more bands. In addition, the quasar sample is firstly clustered into two groups by one-class SVM, then the photometric redshifts of the two groups are separately estimated by means of SVM. The results based on the whole sample and the combined results from the two groups are comparable.

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Hongwen Zheng and Yanxia Zhang "Support vector machines for photometric redshift measurement of quasars", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 845133 (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925761

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