Impact of Rubin Observatory cadence choices on supernovae photometric classification
arXiv:2210.15690 · doi:10.3847/1538-4365/acbb09
Abstract
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover an unprecedented number of supernovae (SNe), making spectroscopic classification for all the events infeasible. LSST will thus rely on photometric classification, whose accuracy depends on the not-yet-finalized LSST observing strategy. In this work, we analyze the impact of cadence choices on classification performance using simulated multi-band light curves. First, we simulate SNe with an LSST baseline cadence, a non-rolling cadence, and a presto-color cadence which observes each sky location three times per night instead of twice. Each simulated dataset includes a spectroscopically-confirmed training set, which we augment to be representative of the test set as part of the classification pipeline. Then, we use the photometric transient classification library snmachine to build classifiers. We find that the active region of the rolling cadence used in the baseline observing strategy yields a 25% improvement in classification performance relative to the background region. This improvement in performance in the actively-rolling region is also associated with an increase of up to a factor of 2.7 in the number of cosmologically-useful Type Ia supernovae relative to the background region. However, adding a third visit per night as implemented in presto-color degrades classification performance due to more irregularly sampled light curves. Overall, our results establish desiderata on the observing cadence related to classification of full SNe light curves, which in turn impacts photometric SNe cosmology with LSST.
arXiv comment22 pages, 14 figures. Changed to match version accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (accepted 06/02/2023)
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