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The Hubble constant ($H_0$) is one of the fundamental parameters in cosmology, but there is a heated debate around the $>$4$\sigma$ tension between the local Cepheid distance ladder and the early Universe measurements. Strongly lensed Type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. Huber , S. H. Suyu , D. Ghoshdastidar , S. Taubenberger , V. Bonvin , J. H. H. Chan , M. Kromer , U. M. Noebauer , S. A. Sim , L. Leal-Taixé

Photometric classifications of supernova (SN) light curves have become necessary to utilize the full potential of large samples of observations obtained from wide-field photometric surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and…

(abridged) Ongoing supernova (SN) surveys find hundreds of candidates, that require confirmation for their use. Traditional classification based on followup spectroscopy of all candidates is virtually impossible for these large samples. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dovi Poznanski , Dan Maoz , Avishay Gal-Yam

The revolutionary discovery of dark energy and accelerating cosmic expansion was made with just 42 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in 1999. Since then, large synoptic surveys, e.g., Dark Energy Survey (DES), have observed thousands more SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Helen Qu

In the era of large-scale photometric surveys, scalable and robust methods for classifying supernova (SN) populations are increasingly necessary. Often, spectroscopy is essential in addition to photometry to reliably classify SNe; however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy , V. Ashley Villar

In order to investigate non-uniformity in the luminosity evolution of Type Ia supernovae, we fit the lightcurves with a multi-parameter empirical model. The model provides a quantitative method of analyzing the lightcurves of Type I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. D. Vacca , B. Leibundgut

Cosmologists are facing the problem of the analysis of a huge quantity of data when observing the sky. The methods used in cosmology are, for the most of them, relying on astrophysical models, and thus, for the classification, they usually…

This study aims to optimize the few-shot image classification task and improve the model's feature extraction and classification performance by combining self-supervised learning with the deep network model ResNet-101. During the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuyang Xiao

We investigate multiple techniques to improve upon the current state of the art deep convolutional neural network based image classification pipeline. The techiques include adding more image transformations to training data, adding more…

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We introduce a transformer-based neural network for the accurate classification of real and bogus transient detections in astronomical images. This network advances beyond the conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) methods, widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Adi Inada , Masao Sako , Tatiana Acero-Cuellar , Federica Bianco

Large photometric surveys with the aim of identifying many Type Ia supernovae (SNe) at moderate redshift are challenged in separating these SNe from other SN types. We are motivated to identify Type Ia SNe based only on broadband…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin D. Johnson , Arlin P. S. Crotts

In astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility, supernovae (SNe) are relatively uncommon objects compared to other classes of variable events. Along with this scarcity, the processing of multi-band light-curves is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Óscar Pimentel , Pablo A. Estévez , Francisco Förster

We present a sample of 485 photometrically identified Type Ia supernova candidates mined from the first three years of data of the CFHT SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS). The images were submitted to a deferred processing independent of the…

We present a data-driven method based on long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to analyze spectral time series of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The dataset includes 3091 spectra from 361 individual SNe Ia. The method allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-09 Lei Hu , Xingzhuo Chen , Lifan Wang

Supernovae (SNe) come in various flavors and are classified into different types based on emission and absorption lines in their spectra. SN candidates are now abundant with the advent of large systematic sky surveys like the Zwicky…

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to discover nearly a million Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), offering an unprecedented opportunity to constrain dark energy. The vast majority of these…

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are extremely rare and fade quickly; as a result, they are challenging to detect. To identify lensed SNe in large imaging datasets, current surveys primarily rely on the {\it magnification} effect of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fawad Kirmani , Arjun Karki , Steve Rodney , Kyle Lackey , Varsha P. Kulkarni , John R. Rose , Justin Pierel

Accounting for selection effects in supernova type Ia (SN Ia) cosmology is crucial for unbiased cosmological parameter inference -- even more so for the next generation of large, mostly photometric-only surveys. The conventional "bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta

We present SNIascore, a deep-learning based method for spectroscopic classification of thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) based on very low-resolution (R $\sim100$) data. The goal of SNIascore is fully automated classification of SNe Ia with…

With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Xinyue Sheng , Tuan Dung Pham , Zichi Zhang , Matt Nicholl , Thai Son Mai