Photometric redshifts:

Photometric redshifts are derived from the BVRIJK photometry using a template matching algorithm rooted in Bayesian statistics. The templates are derived by fitting stellar population models by Maraston 1998 to combined broad-band energy distributions of MUNICS galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts. In this way, representative galaxy templates of mixed stellar populations (variable age, metallicity, and dust extinction) optimized for the MUNICS dataset are obtained. These are shown below, as well as a plot of spectroscopic vs. photometric redshift for ~ 400 galaxies and a histogram of the residuals.