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A conditional normalising flow trained on simulated ten-band images can infer the redshift distribution of galaxies too faint to be individually detected, recovering the flux-weighted redshift density to sub-percent accuracy in mean and wid

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load-bearing objection New and useful problem setup, honest simulation work, but the sub-percent claim is calibrated on a VIS-only unresolved sample that doesn't match the multi-band unresolved population the paper aims for. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.14525 v1 pith:33DWLMQS submitted 2026-07-16 astro-ph.CO astro-ph.IM

Probabilistic redshift estimation of unresolved galaxies from multi-band background light maps

Shun-Sheng Li , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Ludovic Van Waerbeke This is my paper
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keywords redshift estimationunresolved galaxiescosmic optical backgroundconditional normalising flowsbackground light mapsflux-weighted redshift distributiontomographic binningmulti-band photometry
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This paper argues that the redshift distribution of the vast, mostly unresolved galaxy population can be recovered statistically from maps of the unresolved optical background light alone, without resolving individual galaxies. The authors train a conditional normalising flow to output per-pixel probability distributions of redshift, VIS magnitude, and imaging noise, conditioned on ten-band pixel values from mock images built to match a space survey and a ground-based survey. On an independent matched test region, the recovered VIS flux-weighted redshift distribution matches the truth to better than one percent in its mean and standard deviation, with a missing-band imputation strategy keeping performance close to that even when photometric coverage is incomplete. The paper also shows that adding an observable like the noise RMS to the target variables gives a built-in check for mismatches between simulation and observation, and that the pixel-level predictions support tomographic binning. If it holds, this would turn the cosmic optical background into a quantitative cosmological tracer.

Core claim

The central discovery is that the redshift and brightness distributions of unresolved galaxies—objects whose individual light is lost in the background—are encoded in the joint statistics of multi-band surface brightness fluctuations, and that a conditional normalising flow can decode this encoding. Trained by maximum likelihood on mock multi-band images with realistic point-spread functions, depths, and tile-to-tile noise variations, the model represents the target density p(z, m_VIS, sigma_RMS | ten-band fluxes). On the fiducial evaluation set (an independent sky region, independently generated noise), the aggregate VIS flux-weighted redshift distribution is recovered with a mean shift of

What carries the argument

Conditional normalising flow with coupling layers and rational-quadratic splines: a generative model that turns a simple probability distribution into a target distribution through a stack of invertible transformations, with a conditioning network steering the transformations by observed data. In this work, the flow is conditioned on ten-band pixel values of unresolved background light and outputs a joint density over redshift, VIS magnitude, and VIS noise RMS, giving tractable per-pixel conditional distributions. The design choices doing the heavy lifting are using flux ratios between adjacent bands plus the VIS flux as conditioning inputs, standardising all variables, and dedicating one ta

Load-bearing premise

The results stand or fall on whether the simulated galaxy population used for training faithfully represents the real unresolved population—including galaxies fainter than the survey limit—and on whether real source removal leaves a residual population matching the simulation's 'undetected' sample; the paper itself notes this mismatch cannot be fully captured or easily diagnosed.

What would settle it

Take real multi-band images from an overlap region of a space survey and a ground-based survey, run the model to predict the VIS flux-weighted redshift distribution of the unresolved background, then measure the same quantity by stacking spectroscopic or high-confidence photometric redshifts of the same faint population (e.g., from deep spectroscopy or SED fitting aided by deeper space data). If the recovered mean redshift differs by more than about 1 percent while the noise-RMS diagnostic shows no mismatch, the claimed accuracy would be shown not to transfer. Alternatively, retrain the flow o

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If this is right

  • Unresolved background light can be used as a tomographic large-scale-structure tracer: per-pixel redshift estimates allow pixel-level tomographic binning, recovering redshift distributions per bin with sub-percent or near sub-percent accuracy.
  • Missing photometric bands need not invalidate the method: with mean-based imputation from remaining bands or from the VIS band, redshift estimates stay close to the fiducial performance.
  • The noise-RMS diagnostic provides a practical safeguard: because the flow predicts an observable quantity as part of its target, users can detect when the training simulation does not match the observed imaging conditions before trusting the redshift output.
  • The framework extends naturally to flux-weighted redshift distributions in other bands by adding those magnitudes to the target vector, enabling band-by-band component separation for the cosmic optical background.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the sub-percent accuracy persists on real data from a Euclid-like and LSST-like overlap, cross-correlating redshift-binned background-light maps with resolved galaxy surveys would test galaxy population models and potentially constrain the faint-end slope of the luminosity function—a step the paper leaves implicit.
  • The authors' diagnostic trick of targeting an observable systematic generalises beyond noise RMS: the same flow machinery could predict PSF size, astrometric residuals, or foreground cirrus amplitude, turning any known systematic into a built-in test for simulation-reality mismatch.
  • A concrete testable extension would be to train the same architecture on two independent mocks built from different galaxy-formation models; the spread in predicted n(z) would quantify the systematic error budget that the paper identifies as the main obstacle to real-data use.
  • The findings suggest that statistical smoothing inherent to normalising flows may suppress sharp low-redshift features; if such features matter, hybrid methods combining flow densities with explicit clustering priors could be needed.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper presents a machine-learning framework for estimating redshift distributions of unresolved galaxies from multi-band surface brightness maps, targeting the Euclid and LSST synergy. Using the Flagship mock, it constructs unresolved samples by simulating Euclid VIS images, detecting and removing sources with SExtractor, and projecting the remaining galaxies into HEALPix maps at Nside=4096. A conditional normalizing flow is trained on ten-band pixel fluxes to predict joint distributions of redshift, VIS magnitude, and VIS noise RMS. On a held-out region with matched imaging conditions, the model recovers the VIS flux-weighted redshift density with sub-percent accuracy in the mean and standard deviation (Table 2, Fiducial row). The paper also tests missing-band imputation, noise-level shifts, and pixel-level tomographic binning, and proposes using the predicted noise RMS as a diagnostic for train-target mismatch.

Significance. If the demonstrated accuracy transfers to real data, the method would enable new cosmological analyses of the unresolved cosmic optical background, which contains the majority of galaxies. The methodological novelty is the use of conditional normalizing flows for map-based redshift distribution inference, with a built-in observable diagnostic. Strengths include a null test, a held-out evaluation region, independent noise realizations, and reproducible open-source components (MultiBand_ImSim, FlowJAX). The central limitation is that validation is entirely within the Flagship simulation, so the sub-percent accuracy is a statement about the mock world; the paper is transparent about this. The most serious concern is the definition of the unresolved sample, which is based on VIS-only detection despite the ten-band Euclid+LSST context.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.1, Table 1] The unresolved sample is defined by running SExtractor on Euclid VIS images only, then applying a VIS>24 cut. The stated target is the unresolved background in the ten-band Euclid+LSST synergy. LSST bands are substantially deeper (e.g., r-band 5σ depth 27.15 vs VIS 25.70). Galaxies that are undetected in VIS but detected in LSST are therefore retained in the simulated unresolved maps and in the training/evaluation target. In a real analysis these galaxies would be resolved and removed. The sub-percent accuracy in Table 2 therefore applies to a mixed population of VIS-undetected galaxies, not to the actual unresolved population of the combined survey. This is a definitional mismatch, not only a simulation-realism concern. Please re-run the detection using all ten bands (or a combined detection image), or explicitly re-scope the claims to a VIS-only unresolved definition.
  2. [§5 ('Several avenues')] The validation is entirely internal to the Flagship simulation. The held-out region and independent noise realizations are out-of-sample only within the same galaxy-formation and SED model. The paper acknowledges that population mismatches 'cannot be fully captured within our current simulation framework' (Section 5), but this is the central source of external-validity risk for the headline sub-percent claim. Unless a test with an independent mock (e.g., hydrodynamical or semi-analytic) is added, the abstract and conclusions should state more prominently that the accuracy is demonstrated only for the Flagship galaxy population, and that transfer to real data is untested.
  3. [Table 2 (Shift RMS rows)] The ±3σ noise-shift tests show mean biases of -3.64e-2 and +3.67e-2 in the VIS flux-weighted redshift density, i.e., ~3.6% in the mean. The paper uses this to motivate the noise-RMS diagnostic, which is reasonable, but the term 'robust' in the abstract and conclusion should not be read as unbiased recovery under noise mismatch. The work demonstrates detection of the mismatch, not correction. Consider explicitly distinguishing 'diagnostic capability' from 'recovery accuracy' in the summary.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§2.1] The two-iteration blending safeguard is heuristic; please state how many galaxies remain after the VIS>24 cut and how sensitive the results are to the cut.
  2. [§4.1] Mean imputation for 20% missing pixels assumes missingness at random; real missing data (e.g., bad pixels, chip gaps) may be spatially correlated. A brief note would be useful.
  3. [§4.3] The chosen tomographic bin edges (0,1.2,1.4,1.6,3) are not motivated. The lowest bin is very broad and contains the sharp features the model smooths; report the source fraction per bin to aid interpretation.
  4. [Figure 6] Dashed/solid line legend: clarify which colors correspond to which scenarios in the caption; currently the text refers to colors but the figure caption does not list them.
  5. [Appendix A] The reference to Bogachev et al. for universal approximation could be supplemented by a more standard normalizing-flow approximation theorem reference; not essential.
  6. [Abstract] 'Sub-per cent accuracy' appears before the caveat 'when the training and target samples are statistically well matched'; consider moving the caveat earlier to avoid overstatement.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the conditional-flow redshift recovery is validated on held-out simulated sky regions against the simulation's own ground truth; the main caveats are acknowledged external-realism limits, not construction-level circularity.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular by construction. The target variables (redshift, VIS magnitude, VIS noise RMS) and conditioning variables (ten-band HEALPix pixel values of unresolved background light) are linked by the simulated radiative transfer of the Flagship galaxy population, not by definition or by a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction. The network must learn this mapping from data, and the evaluation is a genuine out-of-sample test: the fiducial test set is drawn from a different 50-square-degree sky region with a distinct galaxy population and independently generated noise and PSF realizations, as stated in Section 2.2. The model is trained only on simulations; no real target data are used to adjust the model, so the sub-percent mean and standard-deviation recovery reported in Table 2 is a measured generalization performance rather than an identity. The inclusion of the VIS background noise RMS as a target variable is an observable diagnostic, not a fitted constant smuggled in as validation; it is used to flag training-target mismatches, and the pure-noise null test provides a meaningful contrast. The paper contains self-citations — notably the MultiBand_ImSim pipeline (Li et al. 2023) and Kilo-Degree Survey PSF priors — but these are instrumental references for the simulation tool and noise parameters, not load-bearing claims that force the result; there is no uniqueness theorem or ansatz smuggled in via self-citation. The paper's own caveats are external-validity limitations rather than circular steps: Section 2.1 assumes 'future object-detection and removal techniques will achieve the requisite level of precision' and defines the unresolved sample from VIS-only detection, while Section 5 acknowledges that population mismatches 'cannot be fully captured within our current simulation framework and are difficult to diagnose in practice.' These caveats honestly qualify transfer to real data but do not make the simulated validation equivalent to its inputs. Overall, the derivation is self-contained as a simulation-based feasibility study, with the main risk being simulation-realism and survey-definition mismatch, not circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method's success depends on premises inherited from the simulation: the Flagship population, the detection/subtraction procedure, and the Gaussian noise model. These are stated, but the paper's own 'statistical mismatch' section shows the model degrades when those premises are violated.

free parameters (3)
  • Normalising flow hyperparameters = 8 coupling layers; 16 spline knots; 256 hidden units; learning rate 1e-5
    Chosen by hand (Section 3.2); not optimized against target data, but their values affect the fitted model and hence the reported accuracy.
  • Imputation scaling ratios = e.g., VIS-to-band global mean flux ratios
    Used to fill missing bands in Section 4.1; computed from training data, so they are fitted constants that influence the robustness claim.
  • Tomographic bin edges = z = 0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 3.0
    Chosen by hand in Section 4.3 to demonstrate tomographic feasibility; the reported per-bin accuracy depends on these edges.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Flagship mock's galaxy population is representative of the real unresolved galaxy population.
    Section 2 relies entirely on this mock; the paper acknowledges in Section 5 that population mismatches cannot be captured.
  • domain assumption Detected galaxies can be perfectly masked or subtracted.
    Section 2.1 states: 'This approach assumes that future object-detection and removal techniques will achieve the requisite level of precision.'
  • domain assumption Background noise is Gaussian and no astrophysical foregrounds (cirrus, zodiacal light) contribute to the maps.
    Section 2.2 specifies Gaussian noise and explicitly defers foregrounds such as Galactic cirrus to future work.
  • standard math Conditional normalising flows with the specified architecture can approximate the true conditional distribution.
    Appendix A provides the mathematical framework; expressiveness follows from stacking bijections, a standard result in the normalising-flow literature.

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Accurate knowledge of the redshift distributions of unresolved galaxy populations is essential for extracting the cosmological information encoded in the cosmic optical background. We present the first framework for estimating these distributions directly from multi-band maps of unresolved background light, using conditional normalising flows trained on realistic image simulations. For imaging qualities comparable to those expected from the synergy between the Euclid and Rubin LSST surveys, our model achieves sub-per cent accuracy in both the mean and standard deviation of the flux-weighted redshift distributions when the training and target samples are statistically well matched. Furthermore, the network proves highly resilient to incomplete photometric coverage when combined with tailored data imputation strategies. To address the challenge of statistical mismatches between simulations and real observations, we propose incorporating observational quantities into the target variables, providing a built-in diagnostic to assess model reliability and uncertainty from the predictions themselves. We also demonstrate the feasibility of map-based tomographic analyses, showing that the model retains sufficient pixel-level detail to recover redshift distributions for tomographically defined subsamples with near sub-per cent accuracy across all bins. These results establish conditional normalising flows as a viable tool for redshift estimation of unresolved sources, opening new opportunities for component separation, signal interpretation, and cosmological inference using multi-band optical background fluctuations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.14525 by Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Shun-Sheng Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of simulated Euclid VIS images before (left) and after (middle) the removal of detectable galaxies. For clearer visualisation of the clustering of unresolved galaxies, the right panel shows a noise-free image of the unresolved galaxies alone. The plotted region spans 0.69 arcmin2 , containing 154 galaxies in total, of which 119 remain undetected. Within this region, the brightest galaxy has a VI… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of the Euclid VIS magnitude distributions of the whole sample (black), the identified detectable sample (blue), and the undetected sample (red). The overall decline in source counts beyond a magnitude of ∼27 reflects the intrinsic mass resolution limits of the Flagship simulation. magnitude of ∼26.5. This behaviour is consistent with the ex￾pected performance of Euclid. The decline in overall ga… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of HEALPix maps constructed from the simulated Euclid VIS images, without (top) and with (middle) unresolved galaxies. The prominent tile-level variations arise from changing background noise levels across the footprint, whilst the finer, smaller-scale fluctuations reveal the underlying large-scale structure traced by the unresolved galaxies. The bottom panel shows the same map with a uniform no… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Distributions of pixel values across all ten bands of the HEALPix maps in the training sample. A general trend toward higher overall surface brightness and broader distributions is observed in the redder bands. This framework is well suited to our task, whose central goal is to infer the true redshift distribution of the unresolved galaxy population from the measured pixel values of the multi￾band HEALPix … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of the model-predicted target distributions (blue lines) with the underlying truth (shaded histograms) for the fiducial evaluation sample. The four panels, in clockwise order, correspond to the redshift distribution, VIS flux distribution, VIS flux-weighted redshift distribution, and VIS background noise RMS distribution. The quoted summary statistics are also presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of VIS flux-weighted redshift distributions between model predictions (lines) and the underlying truth (shaded histogram) for different levels of missing data. The upper panel shows the distri￾butions, whilst the lower panel shows the fractional residuals, defined as (npred − ntrue)/ntrue. Different colours correspond to different levels of missing data, with dashed lines indicating raw results … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of the model-predicted target distributions (lines) with the underlying truth (shaded histograms) for the out-of-distribution test samples. The four panels, in clockwise order, correspond to the redshift distribution, VIS flux distribution, VIS flux-weighted redshift distribution, and VIS background noise RMS distribution. Different colours correspond to different levels of shift in the imaging … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of VIS flux-weighted redshift distributions between model predictions (lines) and the underlying truth (shaded histograms) for tomographic subsamples defined by pixel-level redshift binning. Each panel corresponds to a different tomographic bin, with the pixel mean redshift range indicated in the panel title. From a modelling perspective, a natural extension would be to adopt an ensemble-flow fr… view at source ↗

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