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As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curves and host galaxy redshifts. For this analysis, we use the…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear exploding stars that can be used to put constraints on the nature of our universe. One challenge with population analyses of SNe Ia is Malmquist bias, where we preferentially observe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Benjamin M. Boyd , Matthew Grayling , Stephen Thorp , Kaisey S. Mandel

We discuss a novel approach to identifying cosmic events in separate and independent observations. In our focus are the true events, such as supernova explosions, that happen once, hence, whose measurements are not repeatable. Their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tamas Budavari

Type Ia supernovae have played a crucial role in the discovery of the dark energy, via the measurement of their light curves and the determination of the peak brightness via fitting templates to the observed lightcurve shape. Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastien Bongard , E. Baron , G. Smadja , David Branch , Peter H. Hauschildt

We present a Bayesian method for the identification and classification of objects from sets of astronomical catalogs, given a predefined classification scheme. Identification refers here to the association of entries in different catalogs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jörg P. Rachen

Photometric classification of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is critical for cosmological studies but remains difficult due to class imbalance and observational noise. While deep learning models have been explored, they are often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Garg

Large photometric surveys of transient phenomena, such as Pan-STARRS and LSST, will locate thousands to millions of type Ia supernova candidates per year, a rate prohibitive for acquiring spectroscopy to determine each candidate's type and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , M. E. Huber , A. Rest , C. Stubbs , J. L. Tonry

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide us with a unique tool for measuring extragalactic distances and determining cosmological parameters. As a result, the precise and effective calibration for peak luminosities of SNe Ia becomes extremely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Xiaofeng Wang , Lifan Wang , Xu Zhou , Yuqing Lou , Zongwei Li

We apply deep recurrent neural networks, which are capable of learning complex sequential information, to classify supernovae\footnote{Code available at \href{https://github.com/adammoss/supernovae}{https://github.com/adammoss/supernovae}}.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 Tom Charnock , Adam Moss

Future use of type Ia supernovae for cosmology aims not only to determine the equation of state of dark energy, but also to constrain possible variations in its value. To achieve this goal, supernovae need to become better calibrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 T. M. Davis , J. B. James , B. P. Schmidt , A. G. Kim

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standarizable candles whose observed light curves can be used to infer their distances, which can in turn be used in cosmological analyses. As the quantity of observed SNe Ia grows with current and upcoming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy , Stephen Thorp , Matthew Grayling , Kaisey S. Mandel

Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique cosmological probe to address the Hubble tension problem in cosmology. In addition to the sensitivity of the time delays to the value of the Hubble constant, the transient and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Prajakta Mane , Anupreeta More , Surhud More

Type Ia supernova cosmology depends on the ability to fit and standardize observations of supernova magnitudes with an empirical model. We present here a series of new models of Type Ia Supernova spectral time series that capture a greater…

We investigate the identification of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe I) using a photometric analysis, without including an arbitrary magnitude threshold. We assemble a homogeneous sample of previously classified SLSNe I from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Inserra , S. Prajs , C. P. Gutierrez , C. Angus , M. Smith , M. Sullivan

We present an analysis of supernova light curves simulated for the upcoming Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova search. The simulations employ a code suite that generates and fits realistic light curves in order to obtain distance…

We present improved photometric supernovae classification using deep recurrent neural networks. The main improvements over previous work are (i) the introduction of a time gate in the recurrent cell that uses the observational time as an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Adam Moss

In the next decade Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) will be used to test theories predicting changes in the Dark Energy equation of state with time. Ultimately this requires a dedicated space mission like JDEM. SNe Ia are mature cosmological…

We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically-classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host-galaxy spectroscopy from the…

Supernovae classes have been defined phenomenologically, based on spectral features and time series data, since the specific details of the physics of the different explosions remain unrevealed. However, the number of these classes is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 William Davison , David Parkinson , Brad E. Tucker

We present a new solution to the problem of classifying Type Ia supernovae from their light curves alone given a spectroscopically confirmed but biased training set, circumventing the need to obtain an observationally expensive unbiased…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-03 Esben A. Revsbech , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk