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A simple and robust method for automated photometric classification of supernovae using neural networks

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

Gemini Spectroscopy of Supernovae from SNLS: Improving High Redshift SN Selection and Classification

We present new techiques for improving the efficiency of supernova (SN) classification at high redshift using 64 candidates observed at Gemini North and South during the first year of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). The SNLS is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. A. Howell , M. Sullivan , K. Perrett , T. J. Bronder , I. M. Hook , P. Astier , E. Aubourg , D. Balam , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , S. Fabbro , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , H. Lafoux , J. D. Neill , R. Pain , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , J. Rich , R. Taillet , R. Knop , R. G. McMahon , S. Perlmutter , N. A. Walton

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Survey Overview and Supernova Spectroscopy

We present spectroscopy from the first three seasons of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). We describe the supernova spectroscopic program in full: strategy, observations, data reduction, and classification. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. B. D'Andrea , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , R. C. Thomas , A. G. Kim , A. Möller , M. Sako , F. J. Castander , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , C. Lidman , D. Scolnic , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , R. Kessler , J. Lasker , E. Macaulay , R. C. Wolf , B. Zhang , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , R. Casas , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , S. Crawford , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. L. Graham , J. K. Hoormann , K. Kuehn , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , M. Pursiainen , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , P. Wiseman , W. Zheng , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , W. Wester

Supernova Classification using the Recurrent Neural Network in the CSST Ultra-Deep Field Survey

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

Not Color Blind: Using Multiband Photometry to Classify Supernovae

Large numbers of supernovae (SNe) have been discovered in recent years, and many more will be found in the near future. Once discovered, further study of a SN and its possible use as an astronomical tool (e.g., as a distance estimator)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dovi Poznanski , Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz , Alexei V. Filippenko , Douglas C. Leonard , Thomas Matheson

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected. Generating realistic simulations of photometric SN surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , O. Graur , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , C. P. Gutiérrez , S. R. Hinton , R. Hounsell , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , S. Kuhlmann , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , E. Swann , P. Wiseman , J. Asorey , G. F. Lewis , R. Sharp , B. E. Tucker , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. A. G. Maia , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. D. Wilkinson

Cosmology Requirements on Supernova Photometric Redshift Systematics for Rubin LSST and Roman Space Telescope

Some million Type Ia supernovae (SN) will be discovered and monitored during upcoming wide area time domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). For cosmological use, accurate redshifts are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Ayan Mitra , Eric V. Linder

Utilizing Type Ia Supernovae in a Large, Fast, Imaging Survey to Constrain Dark Energy

We study the utility of a large sample of type Ia supernovae that might be observed in an imaging survey that rapidly scans a large fraction of the sky for constraining dark energy. We consider information from the traditional luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew R. Zentner , Suman Bhattacharya

The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed Type Ia Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from The Combined Pantheon Sample

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,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 D. M. Scolnic , D. O. Jones , A. Rest , Y. C. Pan , R. Chornock , R. J. Foley , M. E. Huber , R. Kessler , G. Narayan , A. G. Riess , S. Rodney , E. Berger , D. J. Brout , P. J. Challis , M. Drout , D. Finkbeiner , R. Lunnan , R. P. Kirshner , N. E. Sanders , E. Schlafly , S. Smartt , C. W. Stubbs , J. Tonry , W. M. Wood-Vasey , M. Foley , J. Hand , E. Johnson , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , K. W. Hodapp , N. Kaiser , R. P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , F. Bresolin , E. Gall , R. Kotak , M. McCrum , K. W. Smith

Fuzzy Supernova Templates II: Parameter Estimation

Wide field surveys will soon be discovering Type Ia supernovae (SNe) at rates of several thousand per year. Spectroscopic follow-up can only scratch the surface for such enormous samples, so these extensive data sets will only be useful to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Steven A. Rodney , John L. Tonry

New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy

We have discovered 21 new Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to trace the history of cosmic expansion over the last 10 billion years. These objects, which include 13 spectroscopically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam G. Riess , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Stefano Casertano , Henry C. Ferguson , Bahram Mobasher , Ben Gold , Peter J. Challis , Alexei V. Filippenko , Saurabh Jha , Weidong Li , John Tonry , Ryan Foley , Robert P. Kirshner , Mark Dickinson , Emily MacDonald , Daniel Eisenstein , Mario Livio , Josh Younger , Chun Xu , Tomas Dahlen , Daniel Stern

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation

We present the analysis underpinning the measurement of cosmological parameters from 207 spectroscopically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), spanning a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 D. Brout , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , B. Zhang , P. Andersen , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , P. Brown , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , M. March , V. Miranda , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Cosmological Prediction of the CSST Ultra Deep Field Type Ia Supernova Photometric Survey

Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) as a standard candle is an ideal tool to measure cosmic distance and expansion history of the Universe. Here we investigate the SN Ia photometric measurement in the China Space Station Telescope Ultra Deep Field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Haitao Miao , Xuelei Chen , Hu Zhan

Two Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift ~2 : Improved Classification and Redshift Determination with Medium-band Infrared Imaging

We present two supernovae (SNe) discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), an HST multi-cycle treasury program. We classify both objects as Type Ia SNe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Steven A. Rodney , Adam G. Riess , Daniel M. Scolnic , David O. Jones , Shoubaneh Hemmati , Alberto Molino , Curtis McCully , Bahram Mobasher , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Or Graur , Brian Hayden , Stefano Casertano

Spectroscopic Studies of Type Ia Supernovae Using LSTM Neural Networks

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

The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample

We present ACS, NICMOS, and Keck AO-assisted photometry of 20 Type Ia supernovae SNe Ia from the HST Cluster Supernova Survey. The SNe Ia were discovered over the redshift interval 0.623 < z < 1.415. Fourteen of these SNe Ia pass our strict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 N. Suzuki , D. Rubin , C. Lidman , G. Aldering , R. Amanullah , K. Barbary , L. F. Barrientos , J. Botyanszki , M. Brodwin , N. Connolly , K. S. Dawson , A. Dey , M. Doi , M. Donahue , S. Deustua , P. Eisenhardt , E. Ellingson , L. Faccioli , V. Fadeyev , H. K. Fakhouri , A. S. Fruchter , D. G. Gilbank , M. D. Gladders , G. Goldhaber , A. H. Gonzalez , A. Goobar , A. Gude , T. Hattori , H. Hoekstra , E. Hsiao , X. Huang , Y. Ihara , M. J. Jee , D. Johnston , N. Kashikawa , B. Koester , K. Konishi , M. Kowalski , E. V. Linder , L. Lubin , J. Melbourne , J. Meyers , T. Morokuma , F. Munshi , C. Mullis , T. Oda , N. Panagia , S. Perlmutter , M. Postman , T. Pritchard , J. Rhodes , P. Ripoche , P. Rosati , D. J. Schlegel , A. Spadafora , S. A. Stanford , V. Stanishev , D. Stern , M. Strovink , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , M. Wagner , L. Wang , N. Yasuda , H. K. C. Yee

Breaking the color-reddening degeneracy in type Ia supernovae

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

Identification of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 1.3 and Beyond with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on HST

We present discoveries of SNe Ia at z > 1 and the photometric diagnostic used to discriminate them from other types of SNe detected during the GOODS Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Adam G. Riess , Louis-Gregory Strolger , John Tonry , Zlatan Tsvetanov , Stefano Casertano , Henry C. Ferguson , Bahram Mobasher , Peter Challis , Nino Panagia , Alexei V. Filippenko , Weidong Li , Ryan Chornock , Robert P. Kirshner , Bruno Leibundgut , Mark Dickinson , Anton Koekemoer , Norman A. Grogin , Mauro Giavalisco

SNIa photometric studies in SNLS

The discovery of accelerated expansion using supernova surveys has been one of the most surprising discoveries in cosmology in the past ten years. Present and future surveys, among which SNLS, JDEM or LSST, are based on samples of a few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 N. Palanque-Delabrouille

The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

While Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most mature cosmological probes, the next era promises to be extremely exciting in the number of different ways SNe Ia are used to measure various cosmological parameters. Here we review the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Dan Scolnic , Saul Perlmutter , Greg Aldering , Dillon Brout , Tamara Davis , Alex Filippenko , Ryan Foley , Renee Hlozek , Rebekah Hounsell , Saurabh Jha , David Jones , Pat Kelly , Rick Kessler , Alex Kim , David Rubin , Adam Riess , Steven Rodney , Justin Roberts-Pierel , Christopher Stubbs , Yun Wang , Jacobo Asorey , Arturo Avelino , Chetan Bavdhankar , Peter J. Brown , Anthony Challinor , Christophe Balland , Asantha Cooray , Suhail Dhawan , Georgios Dimitriadis , Cora Dvorkin , Julien Guy , Will Handley , Ryan E. Keeley , Jean-Paul Kneib , Benjamin LHuillier , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Kaisey Mandel , James Mertens , Mickael Rigault , Pavel Motloch , Suvodip Mukherjee , Gautham Narayan , Andrei Nomerotski , Lyman Page , Levon Pogosian , Giuseppe Puglisi , Marco Raveri , Nicolas Regnault , Armin Rest , Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Masao Sako , Feng Shi , Srivatsan Sridhar , Aritoki Suzuki , Yu-Dai Tsai , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Yannick Copin , Gong-Bo Zhao , Ningfeng Zhu