Abstract
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 be identified soon after it begins. To quickly identify LSNe in optical survey data sets, we designed ZipperNet, a multibranch deep neural network that combines convolutional layers (traditionally used for images) with long short-term memory layers (traditionally used for time series). We tested ZipperNet on the task of classifying objects from four categories - no lens, galaxy-galaxy lens, lensed Type-Ia supernova, lensed core-collapse supernova - within high-fidelity simulations of three cosmic survey data sets: the Dark Energy Survey, Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and a Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging survey. Among our results, we find that for the LSST-like data set, ZipperNet classifies LSNe with a receiver operating characteristic area under the curve of 0.97, predicts the spectroscopic type of the lensed supernovae with 79% accuracy, and demonstrates similarly high performance for LSNe 1-2 epochs after first detection. We anticipate that a model like ZipperNet, which simultaneously incorporates spatial and temporal information, can play a significant role in the rapid identification of lensed transient systems in cosmic survey experiments.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 109 |
Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
Volume | 927 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2022 |
Funding
R. Morgan thanks the Universities Research Association Fermilab Visiting Scholars Program for funding his work on this project. R. Morgan also thanks the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program, which is funded by LSSTC, NSF Cybertraining grant #1829740, the Brinson Foundation, and the Moore Foundation; his participation in the program has benefited this work. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant No. 1744555. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.
Funders | Funder number |
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Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia | |
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey | |
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | DE-AC02-07CH11359 |
INCT | |
LSSTC | |
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University | |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom | |
Universities Research Association | |
National Science Foundation | AST-1138766, 1829740, AST-1536171, 1744555 |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Brinson Foundation | |
Blanche Moore Foundation | |
Office of Science | |
High Energy Physics | |
Ohio State University | |
University of Chicago | |
Seventh Framework Programme | |
Higher Education Funding Council for England | |
Engineering Research Centers | 240672, 306478, 291329 |
European Commission | |
European Research Council | |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
Generalitat de Catalunya | |
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação | |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | 465376/2014-2 |
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos | |
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación | SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, MDM-2015-0509, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, ESP2017-89838 |
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine | |
European Regional Development Fund |