Artificial Intelligence Assisted Inversion (AIAI) of Synthetic Type Ia Supernova Spectra
Xingzhuo Chen, Lei Hu, Lifan Wang

TL;DR
This paper develops an AI-based inversion method using neural networks to analyze synthetic and observed Type Ia Supernova spectra, revealing insights into their chemical structures and radioactive decay processes.
Contribution
It introduces a novel neural network approach to interpret supernova spectra and constrains the chemical composition and radioactive decay in SNIa.
Findings
AIAI accurately retrieves ionic contributions in spectra.
The method constrains chemical structures of observed SNIa.
Detected decrease of $^{56}$Ni mass over time due to decay.
Abstract
We generate 100,000 model spectra of Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) to form a spectral library for the purpose of building an Artificial Intelligence Assisted Inversion (AIAI) algorithm for theoretical models. As a first attempt, we restrict our studies to time around -band maximum and compute theoretical spectra with a broad spectral wavelength coverage from 2000 10000 using the code TARDIS. Based on the library of theoretically calculated spectra, we construct the AIAI algorithm with a Multi-Residual Convolutional Neural Network (MRNN) to retrieve the contributions of different ionic species to the heavily blended spectral profiles of the theoretical spectra. The AIAI is found to be very powerful in distinguishing spectral patterns due to coupled atomic transitions and has the capacity of quantitatively measuring the contributions from different ionic species. By…
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