Retrospective Search for Strongly Lensed Supernovae in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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Autores principales: Sheu, William, Huang, Xiaosheng, Cikota, Aleksandar, Suzuki, Nao, Schlegel, David, Storfer, Christopher
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author Sheu, William
Huang, Xiaosheng
Cikota, Aleksandar
Suzuki, Nao
Schlegel, David
Storfer, Christopher
author_facet Sheu, William
Huang, Xiaosheng
Cikota, Aleksandar
Suzuki, Nao
Schlegel, David
Storfer, Christopher
contents The introduction of deep wide-field surveys in recent years and the adoption of machine learning techniques have led to the discoveries of $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ strong gravitational lensing systems and candidates. However, the discovery of multiply lensed transients remains a rarity. Lensed transients and especially lensed supernovae are invaluable tools to cosmology as they allow us to constrain cosmological parameters via lens modeling and the measurements of their time delays. In this paper, we develop a pipeline to perform a targeted lensed transient search. We apply this pipeline to 5807 strong lenses and candidates, identified in the literature, in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DR9) footprint. For each system, we analyze every exposure in all observed bands (DECam $g$, $r$, and $z$). Our pipeline finds, groups, and ranks detections that are in sufficient proximity temporally and spatially. After the first round of inspection, for promising candidate systems, we further examine the newly available DR10 data (with additional $i$ and $\textrm{Y}$ bands). Here we present our targeted lensed supernova search pipeline and seven new lensed supernova candidates, including a very likely lensed supernova $-$ probably a Type Ia $-$ in a system with an Einstein radius of $\sim 1.5''$.
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spellingShingle Retrospective Search for Strongly Lensed Supernovae in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
Sheu, William
Huang, Xiaosheng
Cikota, Aleksandar
Suzuki, Nao
Schlegel, David
Storfer, Christopher
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
The introduction of deep wide-field surveys in recent years and the adoption of machine learning techniques have led to the discoveries of $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ strong gravitational lensing systems and candidates. However, the discovery of multiply lensed transients remains a rarity. Lensed transients and especially lensed supernovae are invaluable tools to cosmology as they allow us to constrain cosmological parameters via lens modeling and the measurements of their time delays. In this paper, we develop a pipeline to perform a targeted lensed transient search. We apply this pipeline to 5807 strong lenses and candidates, identified in the literature, in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DR9) footprint. For each system, we analyze every exposure in all observed bands (DECam $g$, $r$, and $z$). Our pipeline finds, groups, and ranks detections that are in sufficient proximity temporally and spatially. After the first round of inspection, for promising candidate systems, we further examine the newly available DR10 data (with additional $i$ and $\textrm{Y}$ bands). Here we present our targeted lensed supernova search pipeline and seven new lensed supernova candidates, including a very likely lensed supernova $-$ probably a Type Ia $-$ in a system with an Einstein radius of $\sim 1.5''$.
title Retrospective Search for Strongly Lensed Supernovae in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03578