Supernova host galaxy association and photometric classification of over 10,000 light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10766


Here we present a catalog of 12,993 photometrically-classified supernova-like light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility, along with candidate host galaxy associations. By training a random forest classifier on spectroscopically classified supernovae from the Bright Transient Survey, we achieve an accuracy of 80% across four supernova classes resulting in a final data set of 8208 Type Ia, 2080 Type II, 1985 Type Ib/c, and 720 SLSN. Our work represents a pathfinder effort to supply massive data sets of supernova light curves with value-added information that can be used to enable population-scale modeling of explosion parameters and investigate host galaxy environments.

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B. Garretson, D. Milisavljevic, J. Reynolds, et. al.
Wed, 22 Dec 21
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