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A method is presented for automated photometric classification of supernovae (SNe) as Type-Ia or non-Ia. A two-step approach is adopted in which: (i) the SN lightcurve flux measurements in each observing filter are fitted separately; and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. V. Karpenka , F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson

We study supernova (SN) classification using the machine learning method of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope Ultra-Deep Field (CSST-UDF) photometric survey, and explore the improvement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Dejia Zhou , Xuelei Chen

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

In the era of large astronomical surveys, photometric classification of supernovae (SNe) has become an important research field due to limited spectroscopic resources for candidate follow-up and classification. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Möller , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. Leloup , J. Neveu , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Rich , R. Carlberg , C. Lidman , C. Pritchet

Photometric data-driven classification of supernovae becomes a challenge due to the appearance of real-time processing of big data in astronomy. Recent studies have demonstrated the superior quality of solutions based on various machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Mariia Demianenko , Ekaterina Samorodova , Mikhail Sysak , Aleksandr Shiriaev , Konstantin Malanchev , Denis Derkach , Mikhail Hushchyn

One of the brightest objects in the universe, supernovae (SNe) are powerful explosions marking the end of a star's lifetime. Supernova (SN) type is defined by spectroscopic emission lines, but obtaining spectroscopy is often logistically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Helen Qu , Masao Sako , Anais Moller , Cyrille Doux

We present a novel method of classifying Type Ia supernovae using convolutional neural networks, a neural network framework typically used for image recognition. Our model is trained on photometric information only, eliminating the need for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Helen Qu , Masao Sako , Anais Möller , Cyrille Doux

We present a semi-supervised method for photometric supernova typing. Our approach is to first use the nonlinear dimension reduction technique diffusion map to detect structure in a database of supernova light curves and subsequently employ…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joseph W. Richards , Darren Homrighausen , Peter E. Freeman , Chad M. Schafer , Dovi Poznanski

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

We propose a novel deep learning tool in order to study the evolution of dark energy models. The aim is to combine two architectures: the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and the Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN), we named this full network as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Maryi Alejandra Carvajal Quintero , S. Capozziello

Automated classification of supernovae (SNe) based on optical photometric light curve information is essential in the upcoming era of wide-field time domain surveys, such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) conducted by the Rubin…

Supernovae Type-Ia (SNeIa) play a significant role in exploring the history of the expansion of the Universe, since they are the best-known standard candles with which we can accurately measure the distance to the objects. Finding large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Akisato Kimura , Ichiro Takahashi , Masaomi Tanaka , Naoki Yasuda , Naonori Ueda , Naoki Yoshida

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

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…

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…

(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

Upcoming large-scale ground- and space- based supernova surveys will face a challenge identifying supernova candidates largely without the use of spectroscopy. Over the past several years, a number of supernova identification schemes have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-22 Natalia Connolly , Brian Connolly

In the era of large all-sky surveys, there will be a need for rapid, automatic classifications of newly discovered transient objects. Our focus here is the classification of supernovae (SNe). We consider random forest machine learning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-28 Jonathan Markel , Amanda J. Bayless

We present a new method for probabilistically classifying supernovae (SNe) without using SN spectral or photometric data. Unlike all previous studies to classify SNe without spectra, this technique does not use any SN photometry. Instead,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ryan J. Foley , Kaisey Mandel

Upcoming photometric surveys will discover tens of thousands of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), vastly outpacing the capacity of our spectroscopic resources. In order to maximize the science return of these observations in the absence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Helen Qu , Masao Sako
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