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JAX-bandflux: differentiable supernovae SALT modelling for cosmological analysis on GPUs

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2025-04-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

JAX-bandflux is a JAX implementation of critical supernova modelling functionality for cosmological analysis. The codebase implements key components of the established library SNCosmo in a differentiable framework, offering efficient parallelisation and gradient-based optimisation capabilities through GPU acceleration. The package facilitates differentiable computation of supernova light curve measurements, supporting the inference of SALT parameters necessary for cosmological analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2504.08081,
  title  = {JAX-bandflux: differentiable supernovae SALT modelling for cosmological analysis on GPUs},
  author = {Samuel Alan Kossoff Leeney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08081},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Submitted to The Journal of Open Source Software on 10th April 2025