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author Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Abramo, L. Raul
Martínez-Solaeche, Ginés
Rodrigues, Natália V. N.
Pieri, Matthew M.
Burjalès-del-Amo, Marina
Escolà-Gallinat, Maria
Ferré-Abad, Montserrat
Isern-Vizoso, Mireia
Alcaniz, Jailson
Benitez, Narciso
Bonoli, Silvia
Carneiro, Saulo
Cenarro, Javier
Cristóbal-Hornillos, David
Dupke, Renato
Ederoclite, Alessandro
Delgado, Rosa María González
Gurung-Lopez, Siddhartha
Hernán-Caballero, Antonio
Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos
López-Sanjuan, Carlos
Marín-Franch, Antonio
Marra, Valerio
de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
Moles, Mariano
Sodré Jr., Laerte
Taylor, Keith
Varela, Jesús
Ramió, Héctor Vázquez
author_facet Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Abramo, L. Raul
Martínez-Solaeche, Ginés
Rodrigues, Natália V. N.
Pieri, Matthew M.
Burjalès-del-Amo, Marina
Escolà-Gallinat, Maria
Ferré-Abad, Montserrat
Isern-Vizoso, Mireia
Alcaniz, Jailson
Benitez, Narciso
Bonoli, Silvia
Carneiro, Saulo
Cenarro, Javier
Cristóbal-Hornillos, David
Dupke, Renato
Ederoclite, Alessandro
Delgado, Rosa María González
Gurung-Lopez, Siddhartha
Hernán-Caballero, Antonio
Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos
López-Sanjuan, Carlos
Marín-Franch, Antonio
Marra, Valerio
de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
Moles, Mariano
Sodré Jr., Laerte
Taylor, Keith
Varela, Jesús
Ramió, Héctor Vázquez
contents Aims. Quasar catalogues from narrow-band photometric data are used in a variety of applications, including targeting for spectroscopic follow-up, measurements of supermassive black hole masses, or Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Here, we present the final quasar catalogue, including redshift estimates, from the miniJPAS Data Release constructed using several flavours of machine-learning algorithms. Methods. In this work, we use a machine learning algorithm to classify quasars, optimally combining the output of 8 individual algorithms. We assess the relative importance of the different classifiers. We include results from 3 different redshift estimators to also provide improved photometric redshifts. We compare our final catalogue against both simulated data and real spectroscopic data. Our main comparison metric is the $f_1$ score, which balances the catalogue purity and completeness. Results. We evaluate the performance of the combined algorithm using synthetic data. In this scenario, the combined algorithm outperforms the rest of the codes, reaching $f_1=0.88$ and $f_1=0.79$ for high- and low-z quasars (with $z\geq2.1$ and $z<2.1$, respectively) down to magnitude $r=23.5$. We further evaluate its performance against real spectroscopic data, finding different performances. We conclude that our simulated data is not realistic enough and that a new version of the mocks would improve the performance. Our redshift estimates on mocks suggest a typical uncertainty of $σ_{\rm NMAD} =0.11$, which, according to our results with real data, could be significantly smaller (as low as $σ_{\rm NMAD}=0.02$). We note that the data sample is still not large enough for a full statistical consideration.
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spellingShingle The miniJPAS survey quasar selection V: combined algorithm
Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Abramo, L. Raul
Martínez-Solaeche, Ginés
Rodrigues, Natália V. N.
Pieri, Matthew M.
Burjalès-del-Amo, Marina
Escolà-Gallinat, Maria
Ferré-Abad, Montserrat
Isern-Vizoso, Mireia
Alcaniz, Jailson
Benitez, Narciso
Bonoli, Silvia
Carneiro, Saulo
Cenarro, Javier
Cristóbal-Hornillos, David
Dupke, Renato
Ederoclite, Alessandro
Delgado, Rosa María González
Gurung-Lopez, Siddhartha
Hernán-Caballero, Antonio
Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos
López-Sanjuan, Carlos
Marín-Franch, Antonio
Marra, Valerio
de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
Moles, Mariano
Sodré Jr., Laerte
Taylor, Keith
Varela, Jesús
Ramió, Héctor Vázquez
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Aims. Quasar catalogues from narrow-band photometric data are used in a variety of applications, including targeting for spectroscopic follow-up, measurements of supermassive black hole masses, or Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Here, we present the final quasar catalogue, including redshift estimates, from the miniJPAS Data Release constructed using several flavours of machine-learning algorithms. Methods. In this work, we use a machine learning algorithm to classify quasars, optimally combining the output of 8 individual algorithms. We assess the relative importance of the different classifiers. We include results from 3 different redshift estimators to also provide improved photometric redshifts. We compare our final catalogue against both simulated data and real spectroscopic data. Our main comparison metric is the $f_1$ score, which balances the catalogue purity and completeness. Results. We evaluate the performance of the combined algorithm using synthetic data. In this scenario, the combined algorithm outperforms the rest of the codes, reaching $f_1=0.88$ and $f_1=0.79$ for high- and low-z quasars (with $z\geq2.1$ and $z<2.1$, respectively) down to magnitude $r=23.5$. We further evaluate its performance against real spectroscopic data, finding different performances. We conclude that our simulated data is not realistic enough and that a new version of the mocks would improve the performance. Our redshift estimates on mocks suggest a typical uncertainty of $σ_{\rm NMAD} =0.11$, which, according to our results with real data, could be significantly smaller (as low as $σ_{\rm NMAD}=0.02$). We note that the data sample is still not large enough for a full statistical consideration.
title The miniJPAS survey quasar selection V: combined algorithm
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11380