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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

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…

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

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

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

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 introduce SuperNNova, an open source supernova photometric classification framework which leverages recent advances in deep neural networks. Our core algorithm is a recurrent neural network (RNN) that is trained to classify light-curves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Anais Möller , Thibault de Boissière

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

This chapter describes the current classification scheme of supernovae (SNe). This scheme has evolved over many decades and now includes numerous SN Types and sub-types. Many of these are universally recognized, while there are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Avishay Gal-Yam

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

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

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

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

Large-scale astronomical surveys have the potential to capture data on large numbers of strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe). To facilitate timely analysis and spectroscopic follow-up before the supernova fades, an LSN needs to…

The properties of supernovae (SNe) are reviewed. It is shown that the observed characteristics of the morphological classes of SNe (types Ia, Ib/c, II) can be explained in terms of two basic explosion mechanisms, i.e. core collapse of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Nino Panagia

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…

A quantitative data-driven comparison among supernovae (SNe) based on their spectral time series combined with multi-band photometry is presented. We use an unsupervised Random Forest algorithm as a metric on a set of 82 well-documented SNe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-03 Ofek Bengyat , Avishay Gal-Yam

The ability to discover new transients via image differencing without direct human intervention is an important task in observational astronomy. For these kind of image classification problems, machine Learning techniques such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Venkitesh Ayyar , Robert Knop , Autumn Awbrey , Alexis Andersen , Peter Nugent

We present an empirical method which measures the distance to a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) with a precision of ~ 10% from a single night's data. This method measures the supernova's age and luminosity/light-curve parameter from a spectrum,…

Supernovae Ia (SNe) can provide a unique window on the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe at redshifts where few other observations are available, by solving the inversion problem (IP) consisting in reconstructing the LSS from its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-31 Cristhian García , Camilo Santa , Antonio Enea Romano
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