Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-14
ApJ 709, 1420-1428, 2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
9 pages, 10 figures, published in ApJ
Scientific paper
We discuss the extent to which photometric measurements alone can be used to identify Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and to determine redshift and other parameters of interest for cosmological studies. We fit the light curve data of the type expected from a survey such as the one planned with Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and also to remove the contamination from the core-collapse supernovae to SNIa samples. We generate 1000 SNIa mock flux data for each of the LSST filters based on existing design parameters, then use a Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) analysis to fit for the redshift, apparent magnitude, stretch factor and the phase of the SNIa. We find that the model fitting works adequately well when the true SNe redshift is below 0.5, while at $z < 0.2$ the accuracy of the photometric data is almost comparable with spectroscopic measurements of the same sample. We discuss the contamination of Type Ib/c (SNIb/c) and Type II supernova (SNII) on the SNIa data set. We find it is easy to distinguish the SNII through the large $\chi^2$ mismatch when fitting to photometric data with Ia light curves. This is not the case for SNIb/c. We implement a statistical method based on the Bayesian estimation in order to statistically reduce the contamination from SNIb/c for cosmological parameter measurements from the whole SNe sample. The proposed statistical method also evaluate the fraction of the SNIa in the total SNe data set, which provides a valuable guide to establish the degree of contamination.
Chen Xuelei
Cooray Asantha
Gong Yan
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