Creating spectral templates from multicolor redshift surveys

Aug, 1999
6 pages
Published in:
  • Astron.J. 120 (2000) 1588-1598
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a novel method capable of creating optimal eigenspectra from multicolor redshift surveys for photometric redshift estimation. Our iterative training algorithm modifies the templates to represent the photometric measurements better. We present a short description of our algorithm here. We show that the corrected templates give more precise photometric redshifts, essentially a ``free'' feature, since we were not fitting for the redshifts themselves.