COSMOS2025: The COSMOS-Web galaxy catalog of photometry, morphology, redshifts, and physical parameters from JWST, HST, and ground-based imaging

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Authors: Marko Shuntov, Hollis B. Akins, Louise Paquereau, Caitlin M. Casey, Olivier Ilbert, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Henry Joy McCracken, Maximilien Franco, Santosh Harish, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Lilan Yang
+48 more Marc Huertas-Company, Edward M. Berman, Jacqueline E. McCleary, Sune Toft, Raphaël Gavazzi, Mark J. Achenbach, Emmanuel Bertin, Malte Brinch, Jackie Champagne, Nima Chartab, Nicole E. Drakos, Eiichi Egami, Ryan Endsley, Andreas L. Faisst, Xiaohui Fan, Carter Flayhart, William G. Hartley, Hossein Hatamnia, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Fabrizio Gentile, Iris Jermann, Shuowen Jin, Koki Kakiichi, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Martin Kümmel, Clotilde Laigle, Ronaldo Laishram, Erini Lambrides, Daizhong Liu, Jianwei Lyu, Georgios Magdis, Bahram Mobasher, Thibaud Moutard, Alvio Renzini, R. Michael Rich, David B. Sanders, Zahra Sattari, Brant E. Robertson, Marc Schefer, Diana Scognamiglio, Nick Scoville, John D. Silverman, Sina Taamoli, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Francesco Valentino, Feige Wang, John R. Weaver, Jinyi Yang
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Abstract

We present COSMOS2025, the COSMOS-Web catalog of photometry, morphology, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 700 000 galaxies in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. This catalog is based on our James Webb Space Telescope 255 h COSMOS-Web program, which provides deep near-infrared imaging in four NIRCam (F115W, F150W, F277W, F444W) and one MIRI (F770W) filter over the central ~0.54 deg2 (~0.2 deg2 for MIRI) in COSMOS. These data are combined with ground- and space-based data to derive photometric measurements of NIRCam-detected sources using both fixed-aperture photometry (on the space-based bands) and a profile-fitting technique on all 37 bands spanning 0.3 μm to 8 μm. We provide morphology for all sources from complementary techniques including profile fitting and machine-learning classification. We derive photometric redshifts, physical parameters, and non-parametric star formation histories from spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. The catalog has been extensively validated against previous COSMOS catalogs and other surveys. Photometric redshift accuracy measured using spectroscopically confirmed galaxies out to z ~ 9 reaches σMAD = 0.012 at mF444W < 28 and remains at σMAD ≲ 0.03 as a function of magnitude, color, and galaxy type. This represents a factor of ~2 improvement at 26 AB mag compared to COSMOS2020. The catalog is approximately 80% complete at log(M⋆/M⊙) ~ 9 at z ~ 10 and at log(M⋆/M⊙) ~ 7 at z ~ 0.2, representing a gain of 1 dex compared to COSMOS2020. COSMOS2025 represents the definitive COSMOS-Web catalog. It is provided with complete documentation, together with redshift probability distributions, and it is ready for scientific exploitation today.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Galaxies: Formation Evolution Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Publication details

Journal / source
Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
Publication date
6 January 2026
Language
EN