Testing and Combining Transient Spectral Classification Tools on 4MOST-like Blended Spectra
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| author | Milligan, Andrew Hook, Isobel Frohmaier, Christopher Smith, Mathew Dimitriadis, Georgios Kim, Young-Lo Maguire, Kate Möller, Anais Nicholl, Matt Smartt, Stephen J. Storm, Jesper Sullivan, Mark Tempel, Elmo Wiseman, Philip Cassarà, Letizia P. Demarco, Ricardo Fritz, Alexander Jiang, Jiachen |
| author_facet | Milligan, Andrew Hook, Isobel Frohmaier, Christopher Smith, Mathew Dimitriadis, Georgios Kim, Young-Lo Maguire, Kate Möller, Anais Nicholl, Matt Smartt, Stephen J. Storm, Jesper Sullivan, Mark Tempel, Elmo Wiseman, Philip Cassarà, Letizia P. Demarco, Ricardo Fritz, Alexander Jiang, Jiachen |
| contents | With the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) expected to provide an influx of transient spectra when it begins observations in early 2026 we consider the potential for real-time classification of these spectra. We investigate three extant spectroscopic transient classifiers: the Deep Automated Supernova and Host classifier (DASH), Next Generation SuperFit (NGSF) and SuperNova IDentification (SNID), with a focus on comparing the completeness and purity of the transient samples they produce. We manually simulate fibre losses critical for accurately determining host-contamination and use the 4MOST Exposure Time Calculator to produce realistic, 4MOST-like, host-galaxy contaminated spectra. We investigate the three classifiers individually and in all possible combinations. We find that a combination of DASH and NGSF can produce a SN Ia sample with a purity of 99.9% while successfully classifying 70% of SNe Ia. However, it struggles to classify non-SN Ia transients. We investigate photometric cuts to transient magnitude and the transient's fraction of total fibre flux, finding that both can be used to improve non-SN Ia transient classification completeness by 8--44% with SNe Ibc benefitting the most and superluminous (SL) SNe the least. Finally, we present an example classification plan for live classification and the predicted purities and completeness across five transient classes: Ia, Ibc, II, SL and non-SN transients. We find that it is possible to classify 75% of input spectra with >70% purity in all classes except non-SN transients. Precise values can be varied using different classifiers and photometric cuts to suit the needs of a given study. |
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| spellingShingle | Testing and Combining Transient Spectral Classification Tools on 4MOST-like Blended Spectra Milligan, Andrew Hook, Isobel Frohmaier, Christopher Smith, Mathew Dimitriadis, Georgios Kim, Young-Lo Maguire, Kate Möller, Anais Nicholl, Matt Smartt, Stephen J. Storm, Jesper Sullivan, Mark Tempel, Elmo Wiseman, Philip Cassarà, Letizia P. Demarco, Ricardo Fritz, Alexander Jiang, Jiachen Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics With the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) expected to provide an influx of transient spectra when it begins observations in early 2026 we consider the potential for real-time classification of these spectra. We investigate three extant spectroscopic transient classifiers: the Deep Automated Supernova and Host classifier (DASH), Next Generation SuperFit (NGSF) and SuperNova IDentification (SNID), with a focus on comparing the completeness and purity of the transient samples they produce. We manually simulate fibre losses critical for accurately determining host-contamination and use the 4MOST Exposure Time Calculator to produce realistic, 4MOST-like, host-galaxy contaminated spectra. We investigate the three classifiers individually and in all possible combinations. We find that a combination of DASH and NGSF can produce a SN Ia sample with a purity of 99.9% while successfully classifying 70% of SNe Ia. However, it struggles to classify non-SN Ia transients. We investigate photometric cuts to transient magnitude and the transient's fraction of total fibre flux, finding that both can be used to improve non-SN Ia transient classification completeness by 8--44% with SNe Ibc benefitting the most and superluminous (SL) SNe the least. Finally, we present an example classification plan for live classification and the predicted purities and completeness across five transient classes: Ia, Ibc, II, SL and non-SN transients. We find that it is possible to classify 75% of input spectra with >70% purity in all classes except non-SN transients. Precise values can be varied using different classifiers and photometric cuts to suit the needs of a given study. |
| title | Testing and Combining Transient Spectral Classification Tools on 4MOST-like Blended Spectra |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12890 |