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author Wright, Angus H.
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Busch, Jan Luca van den
Bilicki, Maciej
Heymans, Catherine
Joachimi, Benjamin
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Stölzner, Benjamin
Wittje, Anna
Asgari, Marika
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Hoekstra, Henk
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Kuijken, Konrad
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Li, Shun-Sheng
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardin, Lauro
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Yan, Ziang
Yoon, Mijin
Zhang, Yun-Hao
author_facet Wright, Angus H.
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Busch, Jan Luca van den
Bilicki, Maciej
Heymans, Catherine
Joachimi, Benjamin
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Stölzner, Benjamin
Wittje, Anna
Asgari, Marika
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Hoekstra, Henk
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Kuijken, Konrad
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Li, Shun-Sheng
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardin, Lauro
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Yan, Ziang
Yoon, Mijin
Zhang, Yun-Hao
contents We present the redshift calibration methodology and bias estimates for the cosmic shear analysis of the fifth and final data release (DR5) of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). KiDS-DR5 includes a greatly expanded compilation of calibrating spectra, drawn from $27$ square degrees of dedicated optical and near-IR imaging taken over deep spectroscopic fields. The redshift distribution calibration leverages a range of new methods and updated simulations to produce the most precise $N(z)$ bias estimates used by KiDS to date. Improvements to our colour-based redshift distribution measurement method (SOM) mean that we are able to use many more sources per tomographic bin for our cosmological analyses, and better estimate the representation of our source sample given the available spec-$z$. We validate our colour-based redshift distribution estimates with spectroscopic cross-correlations (CC). We find that improvements to our cross-correlation redshift distribution measurement methods mean that redshift distribution biases estimated between the SOM and CC methods are fully consistent on simulations, and the data calibration is consistent to better than $2σ$ in all tomographic bins.
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spellingShingle KiDS-Legacy: Redshift distributions and their calibration
Wright, Angus H.
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Busch, Jan Luca van den
Bilicki, Maciej
Heymans, Catherine
Joachimi, Benjamin
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Stölzner, Benjamin
Wittje, Anna
Asgari, Marika
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Hoekstra, Henk
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Kuijken, Konrad
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Li, Shun-Sheng
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardin, Lauro
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Yan, Ziang
Yoon, Mijin
Zhang, Yun-Hao
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present the redshift calibration methodology and bias estimates for the cosmic shear analysis of the fifth and final data release (DR5) of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). KiDS-DR5 includes a greatly expanded compilation of calibrating spectra, drawn from $27$ square degrees of dedicated optical and near-IR imaging taken over deep spectroscopic fields. The redshift distribution calibration leverages a range of new methods and updated simulations to produce the most precise $N(z)$ bias estimates used by KiDS to date. Improvements to our colour-based redshift distribution measurement method (SOM) mean that we are able to use many more sources per tomographic bin for our cosmological analyses, and better estimate the representation of our source sample given the available spec-$z$. We validate our colour-based redshift distribution estimates with spectroscopic cross-correlations (CC). We find that improvements to our cross-correlation redshift distribution measurement methods mean that redshift distribution biases estimated between the SOM and CC methods are fully consistent on simulations, and the data calibration is consistent to better than $2σ$ in all tomographic bins.
title KiDS-Legacy: Redshift distributions and their calibration
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19440