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Future photometric supernova surveys will produce vastly more candidates than can be followed up spectroscopically, highlighting the need for effective classification methods based on lightcurves alone. Here we introduce boosting and kernel…

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 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 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

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

The use of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) to measure cosmological parameters has grown significantly over the past two decades. However, there exists a significant diversity in the SN Ia population that is not well understood. Over-luminous SN…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Daniel Perrefort , Yike Zhang , Lluís Galbany , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Santiago González-Gaitán

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

Current and future cosmological analyses with Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) face three critical challenges: i) measuring redshifts from the supernova or its host galaxy; ii) classifying SNe without spectra; and iii) accounting for…

We present a new solution to the problem of classifying Type Ia supernovae from their light curves alone given a spectroscopically confirmed but biased training set, circumventing the need to obtain an observationally expensive unbiased…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-03 Esben A. Revsbech , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk

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…

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…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential tools for addressing key cosmic questions, including the Hubble tension and the nature of dark energy. Modern surveys are predominantly photometry-based, making the construction of a clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Moonzarin Reza , Lifan Wang , Lei Hu

The ongoing optical time-domain astronomy surveys are routinely reporting fifty transient candidates per night. Here, I investigate the demographics of astronomical transients and supernova classifications reported to the Transient Name…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-14 S. R. Kulkarni

We analyze the three-year SDSS-II Superernova (SN) Survey data and identify a sample of 1070 photometric SN Ia candidates based on their multi-band light curve data. This sample consists of SN candidates with no spectroscopic confirmation,…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will increase the number of observed supernovae (SNe) by an order of magnitude; however, it is impossible to spectroscopically confirm the class for all the SNe discovered. Thus, photometric classification is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Catarina S. Alves , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Tarek Allam , Rahul Biswas

In this work, we propose the use of Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) combined with k = 1 nearest neighbour algorithm (1NN) as a framework for supernovae (SNe) photometric classification. The classification is entirely based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Emille E. O. Ishida , Rafael S. de Souza

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…

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 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