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Title: The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination

Abstract

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 constitutes an essential step for training and testing photometric classification algorithms, and for correcting biases introduced by selection effects and contamination arising from core-collapse SNe in the photometric SN Ia samples. We use published SN time-series spectrophotometric templates, rates, luminosity functions, and empirical relationships between SNe and their host galaxies to construct a framework for simulating photometric SN surveys. We present this framework in the context of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-yr photometric SN sample, comparing our simulations of DES with the observed DES transient populations. We demonstrate excellent agreement in many distributions, including Hubble residuals, between our simulations and data. We estimate the core collapse fraction expected in the DES SN sample after selection requirements are applied and before photometric classification. After testing different modelling choices and astrophysical assumptions underlying our simulation, we find that the predicted contamination varies from 7.2 to 11.7 per cent, with an average of 8.8 per cent and an r.m.s. of 1.1 per cent. Our simulations are themore » first to reproduce the observed photometric SN and host galaxy properties in high-redshift surveys without fine-tuning the input parameters. The simulation methods presented here will be a critical component of the cosmology analysis of the DES photometric SN Ia sample: correcting for biases arising from contamination, and evaluating the associated systematic uncertainty.« less

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  1. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  3. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
  4. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  5. School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
  6. PITT PACC, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
  7. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  8. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  9. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
  10. Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, College of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  11. Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
  12. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  13. Department of Physics, Duke University Durham, Durham, NC 27708, USA
  14. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, 28040, Spain
  15. Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, A28, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  16. The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  17. Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP 05314-970, Brazil, Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia – LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil
  18. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  19. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
  20. CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014 Paris, France, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, SorbonneUniversités, UPMC Paris 06, UMR 7095, F-75014 Paris, France
  21. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
  22. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, Stanford University, PO Box 2450, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  23. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, Departamento Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
  24. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  25. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
  26. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
  27. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  28. INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G. B. Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste, Italy, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Via Beirut 2, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
  29. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia – LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil, Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil
  30. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  31. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
  32. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
  33. Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1029, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
  34. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  35. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  36. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, Stanford University, PO Box 2450, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  37. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  38. Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 München, Germany
  39. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  40. Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia, Lowell Observatory, 1400 Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
  41. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  42. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
  43. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1390, USA
  44. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
  45. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  46. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
  47. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
  48. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 München, Germany
  49. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Casilla 603, La Serena, 2760, Chile
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); FEDER; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Contributing Org.:
DES Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1788286
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1817831; OSTI ID: 1821609; OSTI ID: 1824187; OSTI ID: 1826025; OSTI ID: 1872930
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-20-629-AE; arXiv:2012.07180
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Grant/Contract Number:  
FOA-0001781; AC02-76SF00515; ST/P006760/1; ST/R000506/1; 839090; PGC2018-095317-B-C21; NNH15ZDA001N-WFIRST; SC0009924; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725; SC0019193
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 505 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; surveys; supernovae; cosmology; observations

Citation Formats

Vincenzi, M., Sullivan, M., Graur, O., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Kessler, R., Kovacs, E., Kuhlmann, S., Lasker, J., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Swann, E., Wiseman, P., Asorey, J., Lewis, G. F., Sharp, R., Tucker, B. E., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. A. G., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Wilkinson, R. D., and DES Collaboration),. The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1353.
Vincenzi, M., Sullivan, M., Graur, O., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Kessler, R., Kovacs, E., Kuhlmann, S., Lasker, J., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Swann, E., Wiseman, P., Asorey, J., Lewis, G. F., Sharp, R., Tucker, B. E., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. A. G., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Wilkinson, R. D., & DES Collaboration),. The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1353
Vincenzi, M., Sullivan, M., Graur, O., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Kessler, R., Kovacs, E., Kuhlmann, S., Lasker, J., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Swann, E., Wiseman, P., Asorey, J., Lewis, G. F., Sharp, R., Tucker, B. E., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. A. G., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Wilkinson, R. D., and DES Collaboration),. Wed . "The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1353.
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title = {The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination},
author = {Vincenzi, M. and Sullivan, M. and Graur, O. and Brout, D. and Davis, T. M. and Frohmaier, C. and Galbany, L. and Gutiérrez, C. P. and Hinton, S. R. and Hounsell, R. and Kelsey, L. and Kessler, R. and Kovacs, E. and Kuhlmann, S. and Lasker, J. and Lidman, C. and Möller, A. and Nichol, R. C. and Sako, M. and Scolnic, D. and Smith, M. and Swann, E. and Wiseman, P. and Asorey, J. and Lewis, G. F. and Sharp, R. and Tucker, B. E. and Aguena, M. and Allam, S. and Avila, S. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Burke, D. L. and Carnero Rosell, A. and Carrasco Kind, M. and Carretero, J. and Castander, F. J. and Choi, A. and Costanzi, M. and da Costa, L. N. and Pereira, M. E. S. and De Vicente, J. and Desai, S. and Diehl, H. T. and Doel, P. and Everett, S. and Ferrero, I. and Fosalba, P. and Frieman, J. and García-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gerdes, D. W. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gutierrez, G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and Hoyle, B. and James, D. J. and Kuehn, K. and Kuropatkin, N. and Maia, M. A. G. and Martini, P. and Menanteau, F. and Miquel, R. and Morgan, R. and Palmese, A. and Paz-Chinchón, F. and Plazas, A. A. and Romer, A. K. and Sanchez, E. and Scarpine, V. and Serrano, S. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Soares-Santos, M. and Suchyta, E. and Tarle, G. and Thomas, D. and To, C. and Varga, T. N. and Walker, A. R. and Wilkinson, R. D. and DES Collaboration),},
abstractNote = {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 constitutes an essential step for training and testing photometric classification algorithms, and for correcting biases introduced by selection effects and contamination arising from core-collapse SNe in the photometric SN Ia samples. We use published SN time-series spectrophotometric templates, rates, luminosity functions, and empirical relationships between SNe and their host galaxies to construct a framework for simulating photometric SN surveys. We present this framework in the context of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-yr photometric SN sample, comparing our simulations of DES with the observed DES transient populations. We demonstrate excellent agreement in many distributions, including Hubble residuals, between our simulations and data. We estimate the core collapse fraction expected in the DES SN sample after selection requirements are applied and before photometric classification. After testing different modelling choices and astrophysical assumptions underlying our simulation, we find that the predicted contamination varies from 7.2 to 11.7 per cent, with an average of 8.8 per cent and an r.m.s. of 1.1 per cent. Our simulations are the first to reproduce the observed photometric SN and host galaxy properties in high-redshift surveys without fine-tuning the input parameters. The simulation methods presented here will be a critical component of the cosmology analysis of the DES photometric SN Ia sample: correcting for biases arising from contamination, and evaluating the associated systematic uncertainty.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stab1353},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 2,
volume = 505,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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First Cosmology Results Using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation
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It’s Dust: Solving the Mysteries of the Intrinsic Scatter and Host-galaxy Dependence of Standardized Type Ia Supernova Brightnesses
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SN Ia host galaxy properties from Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II spectroscopy
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The volumetric rate of normal type Ia supernovae in the local Universe discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory
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The evolution of the dust and gas content in galaxies
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Spectrophotometric templates for core-collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys
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A Measurement of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift z ≈ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS‐II Supernova Survey
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The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope
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First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
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The Peculiar SN 2005hk: Do Some Type Ia Supernovae Explode as Deflagrations?
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