KiDS-1000 catalogue: Redshift distributions and their calibration

Abstract

We present redshift distribution estimates of galaxies selected from the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey over an area of $\sim 1000$ deg${}^2$ (KiDS-1000). These redshift distributions represent one of the crucial ingredients for weak gravitational lensing measurements with the KiDS-1000 data. The primary estimate is based on deep spectroscopic reference catalogues that are re-weighted with the help of a self-organising map (SOM) to closely resemble the KiDS-1000 sources, split into five tomographic redshift bins in the photometric redshift range $0.1<z_{\mathrm{B}}\le 1.2$. Sources are selected such that they only occupy that volume of nine-dimensional magnitude-space that is also covered by the reference samples (`gold' selection). Residual biases in the mean redshifts determined from this calibration are estimated from mock catalogues to be $\lesssim 0.01$ for all five bins with uncertainties of $\sim 0.01$. This primary SOM estimate of the KiDS-1000 redshift distributions is complemented with an independent clustering redshift approach. After validation of the clustering-$z$ on the same mock catalogues and a careful assessment of systematic errors, we find no significant bias of the SOM redshift distributions with respect to the clustering-$z$ measurements. The SOM redshift distributions re-calibrated by the clustering-$z$ represent an alternative calibration of the redshift distributions with only slightly larger uncertainties in the mean redshifts of $\sim 0.01-0.02$ to be used in KiDS-1000 cosmological weak lensing analyses. As this includes the SOM uncertainty, clustering-$z$ are shown to be fully competitive on KiDS-1000 data.

arXiv comment15 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A. This paper is part of the KiDS-1000 series of papers, accompanying Heymans, Tröster et al. (arXiv:2007.15632), Asgari et al. (arXiv:2007.15633), Joachimi et al. (arXiv:2007.01844), and Giblin et al. (arXiv:2007.01845). Online KiDS-1000 talks and seminars can be viewed at http://kids.strw.leidenuniv.nl/KiDS-1000.php

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