Photo-zSNthesis: Converting Type Ia Supernova Lightcurves to Redshift Estimates via Deep Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11869v2
• Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 21:20:32 GMT
• Title: Photo-zSNthesis: Converting Type Ia Supernova Lightcurves to Redshift Estimates via Deep Learning
• Authors: Helen Qu, Masao Sako
• Abstract summary: Photo-zSNthesis is a convolutional neural network-based method for predicting full redshift probability distributions. We show a 61x improvement in prediction bias Delta z> on PLAsTiCC simulations and 5x improvement on real SDSS data.
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• Abstract: 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 spectroscopic information, we must accurately extract key parameters, such as SN redshifts, with photometric information alone. We present Photo-zSNthesis, a convolutional neural network-based method for predicting full redshift probability distributions from multi-band supernova lightcurves, tested on both simulated Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data as well as observed SDSS SNe. We show major improvements over predictions from existing methods on both simulations and real observations as well as minimal redshift-dependent bias, which is a challenge due to selection effects, e.g. Malmquist bias. Specifically, we show a 61x improvement in prediction bias <Delta z> on PLAsTiCC simulations and 5x improvement on real SDSS data compared to results from a widely used photometric redshift estimator, LCFIT+Z. The PDFs produced by this method are well-constrained and will maximize the cosmological constraining power of photometric SNe Ia samples.

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