Issue |
A&A
Volume 368, Number 1, March II 2001
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Page(s) | 74 - 85 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20000553 | |
Published online | 15 March 2001 |
A critical appraisal of the SED fitting method to estimate photometric redshifts
1
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Brera 28, 20121 Milano, Italy
2
Università di Napoli, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Mostra d'Oltremare, 80125 Napoli, Italy
3
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, Roque de los Muchachos Astronomical Obs., PO Box 565, 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma (TF), Spain
Corresponding author: M. Massarotti, massarot@brera.mi.astro.it; iovino@brera.mi.astro.it; buzzoni@tng.iac.es
Received:
20
September
2000
Accepted:
12
December
2000
We discuss the stability of the photometric redshift estimate obtained with the SED fitting method with respect to the choice of the galaxy templates. Within the observational uncertainty and photometric errors, we find satisfactory agreement among different sets of theoretical and empirical templates using the Hubble Deep Field North as a target galaxy sample. Our results suggest that, especially at high redshift, the description of the physical processes of photon absorption in the interstellar and intergalactic medium plays a dominant role in the redshift estimate. The specific choice of the template set, as long as this includes both normal and starburst galaxies, is in comparison a minor issue.
Key words: galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: evolution / intergalactic medium / dust, extinction / methods: data analysis / techniques: photometric
© ESO, 2001
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