PhotoD with LSST: Stellar Photometric Distances Out to the Edge of the Galaxy
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| author | Palaversa, Lovro Ivezić, Željko Caplar, Neven Mrakovčić, Karlo Abel, Bob Razim, Oleksandra Matković, Filip Yablonski, Connor Šarić, Toni Jurkić, Tomislav Campos, Sandro DeLucchi, Melissa Jones, Derek Malanchev, Konstantin Malz, Alex I. McGuire, Sean Jurić, Mario |
| author_facet | Palaversa, Lovro Ivezić, Željko Caplar, Neven Mrakovčić, Karlo Abel, Bob Razim, Oleksandra Matković, Filip Yablonski, Connor Šarić, Toni Jurkić, Tomislav Campos, Sandro DeLucchi, Melissa Jones, Derek Malanchev, Konstantin Malz, Alex I. McGuire, Sean Jurić, Mario |
| contents | As demonstrated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Pan-STARRS, and most recently with Gaia data, broadband near-UV to near-IR stellar photometry can be used to estimate distance, metallicity, and interstellar dust extinction along the line of sight for stars in the Galaxy. Anticipating photometric catalogs with tens of billions of stars from Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we present a Bayesian model and pipeline that build on previous work and can handle LSST-sized datasets. Likelihood computations utilize MIST/Dartmouth isochrones and priors are derived from TRILEGAL-based simulated LSST catalogs from P. Dal Tio et al. The computation speed is about 10 ms per star on a single core for both optimized grid search and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods; we show in a companion paper by K. Mrakovčić et al. how to utilize neural networks to accelerate this performance by up to an order of magnitude. We validate our pipeline, named PhotoD (in analogy with photo-z, photometric redshifts of galaxies) using both simulated catalogs and SDSS, DECam, and Gaia photometry. We intend to make LSST-based value-added PhotoD catalogs publicly available via the Rubin Science Platform with every LSST data release. |
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| spellingShingle | PhotoD with LSST: Stellar Photometric Distances Out to the Edge of the Galaxy Palaversa, Lovro Ivezić, Željko Caplar, Neven Mrakovčić, Karlo Abel, Bob Razim, Oleksandra Matković, Filip Yablonski, Connor Šarić, Toni Jurkić, Tomislav Campos, Sandro DeLucchi, Melissa Jones, Derek Malanchev, Konstantin Malz, Alex I. McGuire, Sean Jurić, Mario Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics As demonstrated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Pan-STARRS, and most recently with Gaia data, broadband near-UV to near-IR stellar photometry can be used to estimate distance, metallicity, and interstellar dust extinction along the line of sight for stars in the Galaxy. Anticipating photometric catalogs with tens of billions of stars from Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we present a Bayesian model and pipeline that build on previous work and can handle LSST-sized datasets. Likelihood computations utilize MIST/Dartmouth isochrones and priors are derived from TRILEGAL-based simulated LSST catalogs from P. Dal Tio et al. The computation speed is about 10 ms per star on a single core for both optimized grid search and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods; we show in a companion paper by K. Mrakovčić et al. how to utilize neural networks to accelerate this performance by up to an order of magnitude. We validate our pipeline, named PhotoD (in analogy with photo-z, photometric redshifts of galaxies) using both simulated catalogs and SDSS, DECam, and Gaia photometry. We intend to make LSST-based value-added PhotoD catalogs publicly available via the Rubin Science Platform with every LSST data release. |
| title | PhotoD with LSST: Stellar Photometric Distances Out to the Edge of the Galaxy |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03179 |