Searching for Type Ia Supernovae in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

With the development of large-scale photometric surveys, an increasing number of supernova candidates are being discovered, leading to a rapidly growing demand for supernova spectra. In addition to equipping photometric surveys with follow-up spectroscopic facilities, archival spectra from large mul...

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Published in:The Astrophysical Journal
Main Authors: Xiaoyu Zhuang, Song Ran, Dezheng Meng, Weiyu Ding, Ranfang Zheng, Yao Yao, Zheyu Lin, Bingxue Fu, Fujia Li, Zelin Xu, Jie Song, Xu Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2026-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae7083
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Summary:With the development of large-scale photometric surveys, an increasing number of supernova candidates are being discovered, leading to a rapidly growing demand for supernova spectra. In addition to equipping photometric surveys with follow-up spectroscopic facilities, archival spectra from large multiobject spectroscopic surveys can be mined to provide spectroscopic classifications for candidates and to find supernovae missed by previous surveys. In this work, we combine principal component analysis (PCA), the local outlier factor (LOF) algorithm, and the supernova classification tool SNID to search for Type Ia supernovae among 1,757,303 galaxy spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1). We finally obtain 247 Type Ia supernovae and 17 supernovae of other types. Among these, 202 supernovae lack classification records in the Transient Name Server (TNS) and represent newly identified SNe. These results demonstrate the potential of multiobject spectroscopic surveys to supplement supernova samples, particularly for transients missed by traditional photometric surveys.
ISSN:1538-4357