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We propose a simple, statistically principled, and theoretically justified method to improve supervised learning when the training set is not representative, a situation known as covariate shift. We build upon a well-established methodology…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Maximilian Autenrieth , David A. van Dyk , Roberto Trotta , David C. Stenning

While significant advances have been made in photometric classification ahead of the millions of transient events and hundreds of supernovae (SNe) each night that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Willow Fox Fortino , Federica B. Bianco , Pavlos Protopapas , Daniel Muthukrishna , Austin Brockmeier

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectroscopic host galaxy redshifts for 3,147 of these likely SNe and…

Cosmological analyses of samples of photometrically-identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depend on understanding the effects of 'contamination' from core-collapse and peculiar SN Ia events. We employ a rigorous analysis on…

Set-input deep networks have recently drawn much interest in computer vision and machine learning. This is in part due to the increasing number of important tasks such as meta-learning, clustering, and anomaly detection that are defined on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Samira Zare , Hien Van Nguyen

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

A new method to study the intrinsic color and luminosity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is presented. A metric space built using principal component analysis (PCA) on spectral series SNe Ia between -12.5 and +17.5 days from B maximum is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 M. Sasdelli , E. E. O. Ishida , W. Hillebrandt , C. Ashall , P. A. Mazzali , S. Prentice

Magnification and de-magnification due to gravitational lensing will contribute to the brightness scatter of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility to decrease this scatter by correcting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jakob Jonsson , Edvard Mortsell , Jesper Sollerman

In this work, we present classification results on early supernova lightcurves from SCONE, a photometric classifier that uses convolutional neural networks to categorize supernovae (SNe) by type using lightcurve data. SCONE is able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Helen Qu , Masao Sako

In the next decade, transient searches from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will increase the sample of known Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) from $\sim10^3$ to $10^5$. With this reduction of statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. D. R. Pierel , D. O. Jones , M. Dai , D. Q. Adams , R. Kessler , S. Rodney , M. R. Siebert , R. J. Foley , W. D. Kenworthy , D. Scolnic

We present a new technique to create a bin-averaged Hubble Diagram (HD) from photometrically identified SN~Ia data. The resulting HD is corrected for selection biases and contamination from core collapse (CC) SNe, and can be used to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Richard Kessler , Dan Scolnic

For future surveys, spectroscopic follow-up for all supernovae will be extremely difficult. However, one can use light curve fitters, to obtain the probability that an object is a Type Ia. One may consider applying a probability cut to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-24 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , Melvin Varughese , Renée Hlozek , Martin Kunz , Mat Smith , James Newling

Machine learning has become widely used in astronomy. Gaussian Process (GP) regression in particular has been employed a number of times to fit or re-sample supernova (SN) light-curves, however by their nature typical GP models are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 H. F. Stevance , A. Lee

We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey. We detail improvements to the PS1 SN photometry,…

We present a model-independent, photometry-only framework for identifying strongly lensed supernovae when multiple images are unresolved and blended into a single point source. Building on the simulation-based methodology of Bag et al.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sangwoo Park , Arman Shafieloo , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder , Xiaosheng Huang

We present multi-band photometry of 185 type-Ia supernovae (SN Ia), with over 11500 observations. These were acquired between 2001 and 2008 at the F. L. Whipple Observatory of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Malcolm Hicken , Peter Challis , Saurabh Jha , Robert P. Kirshner , Tom Matheson , Maryam Modjaz , Armin Rest , W. Michael Wood-Vasey

This paper presents a novel method for determining the probability that a supernova candidate belongs to a known supernova type (such as Ia, Ibc, IIL, \emph{etc.}), using its photometric information alone. It is validated with Monte Carlo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Natalia V. Kuznetsova , Brian M. Connolly

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…

The standardizable nature of gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) makes them an attractive target for time delay cosmography, since a source with known luminosity breaks the mass sheet degeneracy. It is known that…