Supernova simulations and strategies for the dark energy survey
- Bernstein, J. P.
- Kessler, R.
- Kuhlmann, S.
- Biswas, R.
- Kovacs, E.
- Aldering, G.
- Crane, I.
- D'Andrea, C. B.
- Finley, D. A.
- Frieman, J. A.
- Hufford, T.
- Jarvis, M. J.
- Kim, A. G.
- Marriner, J.
- Mukherjee, P.
- Nichol, R. C.
- Nugent, P.
- Parkinson, D.
- Reis, R. R. R.
- Sako, M.
- Spinka, H.
- Sullivan, M.
DOIAbstract
We present an analysis of supernova light curves simulated for the upcoming Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova search. The simulations employ a code suite that generates and fits realistic light curves in order to obtain distance modulus/redshift pairs that are passed to a cosmology fitter. We investigated several different survey strategies including field selection, supernova selection biases, and photometric redshift measurements. Using the results of this study, we chose a 30deg search area in the griz filter set. We forecast (1) that this survey will provide a homogeneous sample of up to 4000 TypeIa supernovae in the redshift range 0.0
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