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author Stölzner, Benjamin
Wright, Angus H.
Asgari, Marika
Heymans, Catherine
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Hoekstra, Henk
Joachimi, Benjamin
Kuijken, Konrad
Li, Shun-Sheng
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Yoon, Mijin
Bilicki, Maciej
Burger, Pierre
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Harnois-Déraps, Joachim
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardini, Lauro
Napolitano, Nicola R.
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
Valentijn, Edwin
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Wittje, Anna
Yan, Ziang
Zhang, Yun-Hao
author_facet Stölzner, Benjamin
Wright, Angus H.
Asgari, Marika
Heymans, Catherine
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Hoekstra, Henk
Joachimi, Benjamin
Kuijken, Konrad
Li, Shun-Sheng
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Yoon, Mijin
Bilicki, Maciej
Burger, Pierre
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Harnois-Déraps, Joachim
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardini, Lauro
Napolitano, Nicola R.
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
Valentijn, Edwin
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Wittje, Anna
Yan, Ziang
Zhang, Yun-Hao
contents We present a cosmic shear consistency analysis of the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-Legacy). By adopting three tiers of consistency metrics, we compare cosmological constraints between subsets of the KiDS-Legacy dataset split by redshift, angular scale, galaxy colour and spatial region. We also review a range of two-point cosmic shear statistics. With the data passing all our consistency metric tests, we demonstrate that KiDS-Legacy is the most internally consistent KiDS catalogue to date. In a joint cosmological analysis of KiDS-Legacy and DES Y3 cosmic shear, combined with data from the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernovae compilation and baryon acoustic oscillations from DESI Y1, we find constraints consistent with Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background with $S_8\equiv σ_8\sqrt{Ω_{\rm m}/0.3} = 0.814^{+0.011}_{-0.012}$ and $σ_8 = 0.802^{+0.022}_{-0.018}$.
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spellingShingle KiDS-Legacy: Consistency of cosmic shear measurements and joint cosmological constraints with external probes
Stölzner, Benjamin
Wright, Angus H.
Asgari, Marika
Heymans, Catherine
Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Hoekstra, Henk
Joachimi, Benjamin
Kuijken, Konrad
Li, Shun-Sheng
Mahony, Constance
Reischke, Robert
Yoon, Mijin
Bilicki, Maciej
Burger, Pierre
Chisari, Nora Elisa
Dvornik, Andrej
Georgiou, Christos
Giblin, Benjamin
Harnois-Déraps, Joachim
Jalan, Priyanka
William, Anjitha John
Joudaki, Shahab
Lesci, Giorgio Francesco
Linke, Laila
Loureiro, Arthur
Maturi, Matteo
Moscardini, Lauro
Napolitano, Nicola R.
Porth, Lucas
Radovich, Mario
Tröster, Tilman
Valentijn, Edwin
von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian
Wittje, Anna
Yan, Ziang
Zhang, Yun-Hao
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present a cosmic shear consistency analysis of the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-Legacy). By adopting three tiers of consistency metrics, we compare cosmological constraints between subsets of the KiDS-Legacy dataset split by redshift, angular scale, galaxy colour and spatial region. We also review a range of two-point cosmic shear statistics. With the data passing all our consistency metric tests, we demonstrate that KiDS-Legacy is the most internally consistent KiDS catalogue to date. In a joint cosmological analysis of KiDS-Legacy and DES Y3 cosmic shear, combined with data from the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernovae compilation and baryon acoustic oscillations from DESI Y1, we find constraints consistent with Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background with $S_8\equiv σ_8\sqrt{Ω_{\rm m}/0.3} = 0.814^{+0.011}_{-0.012}$ and $σ_8 = 0.802^{+0.022}_{-0.018}$.
title KiDS-Legacy: Consistency of cosmic shear measurements and joint cosmological constraints with external probes
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19442