HOST GALAXY IDENTIFICATION for SUPERNOVA SURVEYS

Ravi R. Gupta; Steve Kuhlmann; Eve Kovacs; Harold Spinka; Richard Kessler; Daniel A. Goldstein; Camille Liotine; Katarzyna Pomian; Chris B. D'Andrea; Mark Sullivan; Jorge Carretero; Francisco J. Castander; Robert C. Nichol; David A. Finley; John A. Fischer; Ryan J. Foley; Alex G. Kim; Andreas Papadopoulos; Masao Sako; Daniel M. Scolnic; Mathew Smith; Brad E. Tucker; Syed Uddin; Rachel C. Wolf; Fang Yuan; Tim M.C. Abbott; Filipe B. Abdalla; Aurélien Benoit-Lévy; Emmanuel Bertin; David Brooks; Aurelio Carnero Rosell; Matias Carrasco Kind; Carlos E. Cunha; Luiz N.Da Costa; Shantanu Desai; Peter Doel; Tim F. Eifler; August E. Evrard; Brenna Flaugher; Pablo Fosalba; Enrique Gaztaaga; Daniel Gruen; Robert Gruendl; David J. James; Kyler Kuehn; Nikolay Kuropatkin; Marcio A.G. Maia; Jennifer L. Marshall; Ramon Miquel; Andrés A. Plazas; A. Kathy Romer; Eusebio Sánchez; Michael Schubnell; Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe; Flávia Sobreira; Eric Suchyta; Molly E.C. Swanson; Gregory Tarle; Alistair R. Walker; William Wester

doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154

HOST GALAXY IDENTIFICATION for SUPERNOVA SURVEYS

Ravi R. Gupta, Steve Kuhlmann, Eve Kovacs, Harold Spinka, Richard Kessler, Daniel A. Goldstein, Camille Liotine, Katarzyna Pomian, Chris B. D'Andrea, Mark Sullivan, Jorge Carretero, Francisco J. Castander, Robert C. Nichol, David A. Finley, John A. Fischer, Ryan J. Foley, Alex G. Kim, Andreas Papadopoulos, Masao Sako, Daniel M. ScolnicMathew Smith, Brad E. Tucker, Syed Uddin, Rachel C. Wolf, Fang Yuan, Tim M.C. Abbott, Filipe B. Abdalla, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Emmanuel Bertin, David Brooks, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Matias Carrasco Kind, Carlos E. Cunha, Luiz N.Da Costa, Shantanu Desai, Peter Doel, Tim F. Eifler, August E. Evrard, Brenna Flaugher, Pablo Fosalba, Enrique Gaztaaga, Daniel Gruen, Robert Gruendl, David J. James, Kyler Kuehn, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Marcio A.G. Maia, Jennifer L. Marshall, Ramon Miquel, Andrés A. Plazas, A. Kathy Romer, Eusebio Sánchez, Michael Schubnell, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Flávia Sobreira, Eric Suchyta, Molly E.C. Swanson, Gregory Tarle, Alistair R. Walker, William Wester

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Host galaxy identification is a crucial step for modern supernova (SN) surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will discover SNe by the thousands. Spectroscopic resources are limited, and so in the absence of real-time SN spectra these surveys must rely on host galaxy spectra to obtain accurate redshifts for the Hubble diagram and to improve photometric classification of SNe. In addition, SN luminosities are known to correlate with host-galaxy properties. Therefore, reliable identification of host galaxies is essential for cosmology and SN science. We simulate SN events and their locations within their host galaxies to develop and test methods for matching SNe to their hosts. We use both real and simulated galaxy catalog data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys General Catalog and MICECATv2.0, respectively. We also incorporate "hostless" SNe residing in undetected faint hosts into our analysis, with an assumed hostless rate of 5%. Our fully automated algorithm is run on catalog data and matches SNe to their hosts with 91% accuracy. We find that including a machine learning component, run after the initial matching algorithm, improves the accuracy (purity) of the matching to 97% with a 2% cost in efficiency (true positive rate). Although the exact results are dependent on the details of the survey and the galaxy catalogs used, the method of identifying host galaxies we outline here can be applied to any transient survey.

Original language	English
Article number	154
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	152
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154
State	Published - Dec 2016
Externally published	Yes

Funding

The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST- 1138766. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2012- 39559, ESP2013-48274, FPA2013-47986, and Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2012-0234. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478.

Funders	Funder number
Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa	SEV-2012-0234
National Science Foundation	AST- 1138766
Seventh Framework Programme	1138766, 240672, 615929, 306478, 291329
Engineering Research Centers
European Research Council
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad	AYA2012- 39559, FPA2013-47986, ESP2013-48274
Seventh Framework Programme

Keywords

catalogs
galaxies: general
supernovae: general
surveys

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Gupta, R. R., Kuhlmann, S., Kovacs, E., Spinka, H., Kessler, R., Goldstein, D. A., Liotine, C., Pomian, K., D'Andrea, C. B., Sullivan, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Finley, D. A., Fischer, J. A., Foley, R. J., Kim, A. G., Papadopoulos, A., Sako, M., ... Wester, W. (2016). HOST GALAXY IDENTIFICATION for SUPERNOVA SURVEYS. Astronomical Journal, 152(6), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154

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