The Astronomical Journal (Jan 2023)
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Corrections on Photometry Due to Wavelength-dependent Atmospheric Effects
- J. Lee,
- M. Acevedo,
- M. Sako,
- M. Vincenzi,
- D. Brout,
- B. Sanchez,
- R. Chen,
- T. M. Davis,
- M. Jarvis,
- D. Scolnic,
- H. Qu,
- L. Galbany,
- R. Kessler,
- J. Lasker,
- M. Sullivan,
- P. Wiseman,
- M. Aguena,
- S. Allam,
- O. Alves,
- F. Andrade-Oliveira,
- E. Bertin,
- S. Bocquet,
- D. Brooks,
- D. L. Burke,
- A. Carnero Rosell,
- M. Carrasco Kind,
- J. Carretero,
- M. Costanzi,
- L. N. da Costa,
- M. E. S. Pereira,
- J. De Vicente,
- S. Desai,
- H. T. Diehl,
- P. Doel,
- S. Everett,
- I. Ferrero,
- D. Friedel,
- J. Frieman,
- J. García-Bellido,
- D. W. Gerdes,
- D. Gruen,
- R. A. Gruendl,
- G. Gutierrez,
- S. R. Hinton,
- D. L. Hollowood,
- K. Honscheid,
- D. J. James,
- S. Kent,
- K. Kuehn,
- N. Kuropatkin,
- J. Mena-Fernández,
- R. Miquel,
- R. L. C. Ogando,
- A. Palmese,
- A. Pieres,
- A. A. Plazas Malagón,
- M. Raveri,
- K. Reil,
- M. Rodriguez-Monroy,
- E. Sanchez,
- V. Scarpine,
- I. Sevilla-Noarbe,
- M. Smith,
- E. Suchyta,
- G. Tarle,
- C. To,
- N. Weaverdyck,
- DES Collaboration
Affiliations
- J. Lee
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; [email protected]
- M. Acevedo
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- Department of Physics, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708, USA ; [email protected]
- M. Sako
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; [email protected]
- M. Vincenzi
- Department of Physics, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708, USA ; [email protected]
- D. Brout
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- B. Sanchez
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- Department of Physics, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708, USA ; [email protected]
- R. Chen
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- Department of Physics, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708, USA ; [email protected]
- T. M. Davis
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- M. Jarvis
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; [email protected]
- D. Scolnic
- Department of Physics, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708, USA ; [email protected]
- H. Qu
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; [email protected]
- L. Galbany
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- Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC) , Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain; Institut dEstudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) , E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
- R. Kessler
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- J. Lasker
- 7 Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University , 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, TX 75275, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- M. Sullivan
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- P. Wiseman
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- M. Aguena
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- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- S. Allam
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- O. Alves
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- F. Andrade-Oliveira
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- E. Bertin
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- CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris , F-75014, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités , UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France
- S. Bocquet
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- University Observatory, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität , Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
- D. Brooks
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- D. L. Burke
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- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P.O. Box 2450, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- A. Carnero Rosell
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- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias , E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Universidad de La Laguna , Dpto. Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- M. Carrasco Kind
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- Center for Astrophysical Surveys, National Center for Supercomputing Applications , 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- J. Carretero
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- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) , The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
- M. Costanzi
- Astronomy Unit, Department of Physics, University of Trieste , via Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy; INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste , via G.B. Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste, Italy; Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe , Via Beirut 2, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
- L. N. da Costa
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- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- M. E. S. Pereira
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- Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg , Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
- J. De Vicente
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- S. Desai
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- Department of Physics , IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
- H. T. Diehl
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- P. Doel
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- S. Everett
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- I. Ferrero
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- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo. P.O. Box 1029 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
- D. Friedel
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- Center for Astrophysical Surveys, National Center for Supercomputing Applications , 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- J. Frieman
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- J. García-Bellido
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- Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid , E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- D. W. Gerdes
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- D. Gruen
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- University Observatory, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität , Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
- R. A. Gruendl
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- Center for Astrophysical Surveys, National Center for Supercomputing Applications , 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- G. Gutierrez
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- S. R. Hinton
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- D. L. Hollowood
- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics , Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- K. Honscheid
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- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- D. J. James
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- S. Kent
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- K. Kuehn
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- Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University , North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia; Lowell Observatory , 1400 Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
- N. Kuropatkin
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- J. Mena-Fernández
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- R. Miquel
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- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) , The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats , E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
- R. L. C. Ogando
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- Observatório Nacional , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- A. Palmese
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA
- A. Pieres
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- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil; Observatório Nacional , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- A. A. Plazas Malagón
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- M. Raveri
- Department of Physics, University of Genova and INFN , Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146, Genova, Italy
- K. Reil
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- M. Rodriguez-Monroy
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- E. Sanchez
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- V. Scarpine
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- I. Sevilla-Noarbe
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- M. Smith
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- E. Suchyta
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- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
- G. Tarle
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- C. To
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- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- N. Weaverdyck
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- DES Collaboration
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acca15
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 165,
no. 6
p. 222
Abstract
Wavelength-dependent atmospheric effects impact photometric supernova flux measurements for ground-based observations. We present corrections on supernova flux measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program’s 5YR sample (DES-SN5YR) for differential chromatic refraction (DCR) and wavelength-dependent seeing, and we show their impact on the cosmological parameters w and Ω _m . We use g − i colors of Type Ia supernovae to quantify astrometric offsets caused by DCR and simulate point-spread functions (PSFs) using the GalSIM package to predict the shapes of the PSFs with DCR and wavelength-dependent seeing. We calculate the magnitude corrections and apply them to the magnitudes computed by the DES-SN5YR photometric pipeline. We find that for the DES-SN5YR analysis, not accounting for the astrometric offsets and changes in the PSF shape cause an average bias of +0.2 mmag and −0.3 mmag, respectively, with standard deviations of 0.7 mmag and 2.7 mmag across all DES observing bands ( griz ) throughout all redshifts. When the DCR and seeing effects are not accounted for, we find that w and Ω _m are lower by less than 0.004 ± 0.02 and 0.001 ± 0.01, respectively, with 0.02 and 0.01 being the 1 σ statistical uncertainties. Although we find that these biases do not limit the constraints of the DES-SN5YR sample, future surveys with much higher statistics, lower systematics, and especially those that observe in the u band will require these corrections as wavelength-dependent atmospheric effects are larger at shorter wavelengths. We also discuss limitations of our method and how they can be better accounted for in future surveys.
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