The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Light Curves and 5 Yr Data Release
Abstract We present griz photometric light curves for the full 5 yr of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova (DES-SN) program, obtained with both forced point-spread function photometry on difference images ( DiffImg ) performed during survey operations, and scene modelling photometry (SMP) on search images processed after the survey. This release contains 31,636 DiffImg and 19,706 high-quality SMP light curves, the latter of which contain 1635 photometrically classified SNe that pass cosmology quality cuts. This sample spans the largest redshift ( z ) range ever covered by a single SN survey (0.1 < z < 1.13) and is the largest single sample from a single instrument of SNe ever used for cosmological constraints. We describe in detail the improvements made to obtain the final DES-SN photometry and provide a comparison to what was used in the 3 yr DES-SN spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia SN sample. We also include a comparative analysis of the performance of the SMP photometry with respect to the real-time DiffImg forced photometry and find that SMP photometry is more precise, more accurate, and less sensitive to the host-galaxy surface brightness anomaly. The public release of the light curves and ancillary data can be found at github.com/des-science/DES-SN5YR and doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12720777 .
Authors
- A. Pieres
- B. Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8687-0669)
- O. Lahav (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-9035)
- Benjamin Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-8973)
- S. Everett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-2882)
- I. Ferrero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-1132)
- S. R. Hinton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2071-9349)
- J. Myles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6145-5859)
- D. Brooks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-5047)
- A. Möller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-8608)
- L. Galbany (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1296-6887)
- M. Gatti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6134-8797)
- J. Carretero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3130-0204)
- J. García-Bellido (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9370-8360)
- D. Scolnic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4934-5849)
- S. Allam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-7857)
- J. L. Marshall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0710-9474)
- R. A. Gruendl
- L. N. da Costa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7731-277X)
- M. R. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3321-1432)
- G. Giannini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-1750)
- J. Annis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-3987)
- R Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3917-0966)
- P. Armstrong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1997-3649)
- E. Kovacs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-1989)
- R. Keßler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-0419)
- J. Frieman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4079-3263)
- Karl Glazebrook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-9044)
- Francisco Javier Castander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-4573)
- Santiago Avila (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-3662)
- Kathy Romer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9328-879X)
- A. A. Plazas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2598-0514)
- Gregory Tarlé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1704-0781)
- S. González–Gaitán (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-0317)
- E. Suchyta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7047-9358)
- A. Porredon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2762-2024)
- Brad E. Tucker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4283-5159)
- O. Alves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-9466)
- P. Wiseman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3073-1512)
- A. R. Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7123-8943)
- Helen Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-9791)
- P Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8000-6642)
- N. Weaverdyck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9382-5199)
- D. J. James (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5160-4486)
- A. Palmese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-0530)
- Gaston Gutierrez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0825-0517)
- J. Asorey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-499X)
- D. Sanchez Cid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3054-7907)
- D. Carollo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-5787)
- Eusebio Sanchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9646-8198)
- Dillon Brout (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-8374)
- J. Mena-Fernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9497-7266)
- M. Šako (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2764-7093)
- Geraint F. Lewis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3081-9319)
- A. Carnero Rosell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3044-5150)
- ENRIQUE GAZTAÑAGA (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-0815)
- K. Honscheid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6550-2023)
- R. Camilleri
- K. Kuehn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0120-0808)
- J. García-Bellido (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9370-8360)
- David Bacon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2562-8537)
- M. Vincenzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8788-1688)
- S. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-740X)
- T. M. Davis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4213-8783)
- R. L. C. Ogando (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-1154)
- K. Herner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6718-2978)
- M. Acevedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5389-7961)
- R. Miquel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6610-4836)
- M. E. S. Pereira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7131-7684)
- Christopher E. Lidman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1731-0497)
- H. T. Diehl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8357-7467)
- S. Desai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0466-3288)
- M. Aguena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6747)
- D. L. Tucker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7211-5729)
- I. Sevilla-Noarbe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1831-1953)
- M. Toy
- B. Flaugher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2367-5049)
- B Popovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-6978)
- D. L. Burke
- M. Sullivan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9053-4820)
- R. C. Nichol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-6518)
- Javier Mauricio Duarte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5076-7096)
- H. Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-3206)
- M. E. C. Swanson
- J Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6633-9793)
- T. M. C. Abbott
- V. Vikram
- L. Kelsey
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Boston University (US)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Institute of Space Sciences (ES)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Baylor University (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Duke University (US)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Institute for High Energy Physics (ES)
- Princeton University (US)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Lowell Observatory (US)
- Trieste Astronomical Observatory (IT)
- Mitchell Institute (US)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Australian Astronomical Observatory (AU)
- University of Surrey (GB)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Valongo Observatory (BR)
- Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (ES)
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (US)
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
- National Observatory (BR)
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (ES)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (US)
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CL)
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (FR)
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia (BR)
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (ES)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Swinburne University of Technology (AU)
- University of Portsmouth (GB)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IN)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Macquarie University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad739a
- Citations
- 39
- Primary Topic
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.93
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Estudos do Espaço
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- European Research Council