DeepZipper. II. Searching for Lensed Supernovae in Dark Energy Survey Data with Deep Learning

R. Morgan, B. Nord*, K. Bechtol, A. Möller, W. G. Hartley, S. Birrer, S. J. González, M. Martinez, R. A. Gruendl, E. J. Buckley-Geer, A. J. Shajib, A. Carnero Rosell, C. Lidman, T. Collett, T. M.C. Abbott, M. Aguena, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Annis, D. Bacon, S. BocquetD. Brooks, D. L. Burke, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, C. Conselice, L. N.da Costa, M. Costanzi, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, B. Flaugher, D. Friedel, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, M. Lima, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, M. E.S. Pereira, A. Pieres, A. A.Plazas Malagón, J. Prat, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, T. N. Varga

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    Abstract

    Gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are important probes of cosmic expansion, but they remain rare and difficult to find. Current cosmic surveys likely contain 5-10 LSNe in total while next-generation experiments are expected to contain several hundred to a few thousand of these systems. We search for these systems in observed Dark Energy Survey (DES) five year SN fields—10 3 sq. deg. regions of sky imaged in the griz bands approximately every six nights over five years. To perform the search, we utilize the DeepZipper approach: a multi-branch deep learning architecture trained on image-level simulations of LSNe that simultaneously learns spatial and temporal relationships from time series of images. We find that our method obtains an LSN recall of 61.13% and a false-positive rate of 0.02% on the DES SN field data. DeepZipper selected 2245 candidates from a magnitude-limited (m i < 22.5) catalog of 3,459,186 systems. We employ human visual inspection to review systems selected by the network and find three candidate LSNe in the DES SN fields.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number19
    JournalAstrophysical Journal
    Volume943
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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