First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light-curve Data Release Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract We present griz light curves of 251 SNe Ia from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programs (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the calibrated fluxes and associated uncertainties used in the cosmological parameter analysis by employing a scene modeling approach that simultaneously models a variable transient flux and temporally constant host galaxy. We inject artificial point sources onto DECam images to test the accuracy of our photometric method. Upon comparison of input and measured artificial supernova fluxes, we find that flux biases peak at 3mmag. We require corrections to our photometric uncertainties as a function of host galaxy surface brightness at the transient location, similar to that seen by the DES Difference Imaging Pipeline used to discover transients. The public release of the light curves can be found at https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/sn.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

altmetric score

  • 16.112

author list (cited authors)

  • Brout, D., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Kessler, R., D'Andrea, C. B., Davis, T. M., ... Zhang, Y.

citation count

  • 71

complete list of authors

  • Brout, D||Sako, M||Scolnic, D||Kessler, R||D'Andrea, CB||Davis, TM||Hinton, SR||Kim, AG||Lasker, J||Macaulay, E||Moeller, A||Nichol, RC||Smith, M||Sullivan, M||Wolf, RC||Allam, S||Bassett, BA||Brown, P||Castander, FJ||Childress, M||Foley, RJ||Galbany, L||Herner, K||Kasai, E||March, M||Morganson, E||Nugent, P||Pan, Y-C||Thomas, RC||Tucker, BE||Wester, W||Abbott, TMC||Annis, J||Avila, S||Bertin, E||Brooks, D||Burke, DL||Carnero Rosell, A||Carrasco Kind, M||Carretero, J||Crocce, M||Cunha, CE||da Costa, LN||Davis, C||De Vicente, J||Desai, S||Diehl, HT||Doel, P||Eifler, TF||Flaugher, B||Fosalba, P||Frieman, J||Garcia-Bellido, J||Gaztanaga, E||Gerdes, DW||Goldstein, DA||Gruen, D||Gruendl, RA||Gschwend, J||Gutierrez, G||Hartley, WG||Hollowood, DL||Honscheid, K||James, DJ||Kuehn, K||Kuropatkin, N||Lahav, O||Li, TS||Lima, M||Marshall, JL||Martini, P||Miquel, R||Nord, B||Plazas, AA||Roodman, A||Rykoff, ES||Sanchez, E||Scarpine, V||Schindler, R||Schubnell, M||Serrano, S||Sevilla-Noarbe, I||Soares-Santos, M||Sobreira, F||Suchyta, E||Swanson, MEC||Tarle, G||Thomas, D||Tucker, DL||Walker, AR||Yanny, B||Zhang, Y

publication date

  • March 2019