Single-epoch supernova classification with deep convolutional neural networks

no code implementations • 30 Nov 2017 • Akisato Kimura, Ichiro Takahashi, Masaomi Tanaka, Naoki Yasuda, Naonori Ueda, Naoki Yoshida

Our method first builds a convolutional neural network for estimating the luminance of supernovae from telescope images, and then constructs another neural network for the classification, where the estimated luminance and observation dates are used as features for classification.

Astronomy Classification +1