VAR-PZ : Constraining the photometric redshifts of quasars using variability

We thank the anonymous referee for the thoughtful comments that helped us improve the paper. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ANID BASAL project FB210003 (S.S.S., R.J.A., T.A., F.E.B., C.M., T.M. and C.R.), FONDECYT Regular 1231718 (S.S.S. and R.J.A.), 1240105 (T.A.), 1241005 (F.E.B.), 1230345 (C.R) and ANID Millennium Science Initiative AIM23-0001 (T.A., F.E.B.). S.S.S. acknowledges the travel support from the Royal Astronomical Society to attend the meeting 'Supermassive Black Hole studies in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time' in Durham, UK. T.T.A acknowledges support from NASA ADAP Grant 80NSSC24K0692. A.B. acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), through project number CE230100016. DD acknowledges PON R& I 2021, CUP E65F21002880003, and Fondi di Ricerca di Ateneo (FRA), linea C, progetto TORNADO. A.B.K. and D.I. acknowledge funding provided by the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mathematics (the contract 451-03-136/2025-03/200104) through the grants by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia. C.M. acknowledges support from Fondecyt Iniciacion grant 11240336. C.G.B. acknowledges support from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) and the Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnologia de la Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (SeCyT). C.M. acknowledges support from FONDECYT Iniciacion grant 11240336. D.M. acknowledges financial support from CAPES - Finance Code 001. D.D. and M.F. acknowledge the financial contribution from PRIN-MIUR 2022 and from the Timedomes grant within the "INAF 2023 Finanziamento della Ricerca Fondamentale". W.N.B. acknowledges the support of USA NSF grant AST-2407089. S.E.I.B. is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Emmy Noether grant number BO 5771/1-1. S.P. is supported by the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation, on behalf of the Gemini partnership of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Republic of Korea, and the United States of America. C.R. acknowledges support from SNSF Consolidator grant F01-13252 and the China-Chile joint research fund. M.J.T. acknowledges funding from UKRI grant ST/X001075/1. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington. Software packages: NumPy (Harris et al. 2020), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration 2018), Matplotlib (Hunter 2007), Celerite (Foreman-Mackey et al. 2017), Pandas (Pandas Development Team 2020).