Loyola University Chicago1, Physics, Chicago, IL 60626 Argonne2, Lemont, IL 60439
We present the results of a study of selection criteria to identify Type Ia supernovae photometrically in a simulated mixed sample of Type Ia supernovae and core collapse supernovae. The simulated sample is a mockup of the expected results of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using the supernovae simulation and fitting package of SNANA [Kessler et al. arXiv:0908.4280]. This is an extension of a previous analysis, [Gjergo et al. arXiv:1205.1480], with updated core collapse templates that are used to simulate the supernovae. We have also studied how systematic variations in the input parameters of the core collapse supernovae, such as absolute brightness and brightness smearing, affect the measured purity of the Type Ia supernova sample.
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