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20202026
most citedKiDS-Legacy: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear with the complete Kilo-Degree Survey

119 citations · 383 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Fourth-order galaxy-galaxy-lensing: Theoretical framework and direct estimation

Jonathan Oel, Lucas Porth, Peter Schneider +1

Traditional galaxy-galaxy lensing is a well-established method of probing the statistical properties of the Universe's matter and galaxy distribution. However, this measure does no…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Constraining dark energy, neutrino mass, and curvature

Robert Reischke, Benjamin Stölzner, Benjamin Joachimi +25

We constrained minimally extended cosmological models with the cosmic shear analysis of the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-Legacy) in combination with externa…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Constraints on Horndeski gravity from weak lensing combined with galaxy clustering and cosmic microwave background anisotropies

Benjamin Stölzner, Robert Reischke, Matteo Grasso +25

We present constraints on modified gravity from a cosmic shear analysis of the final data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-Legacy) in combination with DESI measurements of b…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Matter power spectrum reconstruction with KiDS-Legacy: Improved internal CDM consistency and preference for strong baryonic feedback

Jeger C. Broxterman, Patrick Simon, Lucas Porth +14

Direct measurements of the matter power spectrum, , provide a powerful tool to investigate observed tensions between models of structure growth while also testin…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Euclid preparation. LXXXV. Toward a DR1 application of higher-order weak lensing statistics

Euclid Collaboration, S. Vinciguerra, F. Bouchè +284

This is the second paper in the HOWLS (higher-order weak lensing statistics) series exploring the usage of non-Gaussian statistics for cosmology inference within Euclid. With respe…

astro-ph.CO2025

Non-linear infusion of intrinsic alignment and source clustering: impact on non-Gaussian cosmic shear statistics

J. Harnois-Déraps, N. Šarčević, L. Medina Varela +15

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies is one of the key secondary signals to cosmic shear measurements, and must be modeled to interpret weak lensing data and infer the correct cos…

astro-ph.CO2025

A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics IV. Analytic cross-covariance between second- and third-order aperture masses

Niek Wielders, Laila Linke, Pierre A. Burger +3

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology, with second-order shear statistics commonly used to constrain parameters such as the matter density and…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Towards an application of fourth-order shear statistics II: Efficient estimation of fourth-order shear correlation functions and an application to the DES Y3 data

Lucas Porth, Elena Silvestre-Rosello, Peter Schneider +1

Higher-order lensing statistics contain a wealth of cosmological information that is not captured by second-order statistics. Stage-III lensing surveys have sufficient statistical…

astro-ph.CO2025

Towards an application of fourth-order shear statistics I. The information content of

Elena Silvestre-Rosello, Lucas Porth, Peter Schneider +4

Higher-order shear statistics contain part of the non-Gaussian information of the projected matter field and therefore can provide additional constraints on the cosmological parame…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Euclid: An emulator for baryonic effects on the matter bispectrum

P. A. Burger, G. Aricò, L. Linke +153

Understanding the impact of baryonic processes such as star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback on matter clustering is crucial to ensure precise and unbiased cosmo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 44 cited

The fifth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey: Multi-epoch optical/NIR imaging covering wide and legacy-calibration fields

Angus H. Wright, Konrad Kuijken, Hendrik Hildebrandt +51

We present the final data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-DR5), a public European Southern Observatory (ESO) wide-field imaging survey optimised for weak gravitational lens…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 32 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Consistency of cosmic shear measurements and joint cosmological constraints with external probes

Benjamin Stölzner, Angus H. Wright, Marika Asgari +33

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 cosmo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 119 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear with the complete Kilo-Degree Survey

Angus H. Wright, Benjamin Stölzner, Marika Asgari +35

We present cosmic shear constraints from the completed Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), where the cosmological parameter , is…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Redshift distributions and their calibration

Angus H. Wright, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Jan Luca van den Busch +30

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-DR…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

KiDS-1000: Detection of deviations from a purely cold dark matter power spectrum with tomographic weak gravitational lensing

Patrick Simon, Lucas Porth, Pierre Burger +1

Model uncertainties in the non-linear structure growth limit current probes of cosmological parameters. To shed more light on the physics of non-linear scales, we reconstructed the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 9 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Covariance validation and the unified OneCovariance framework for projected large-scale structure observables

Robert Reischke, Sandra Unruh, Marika Asgari +24

We introduce OneCovariance, an open-source software designed to accurately compute covariance matrices for an arbitrary set of two-point summary statistics across a variety of larg…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

6x2pt: Forecasting gains from joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses with spectroscopic-photometric galaxy cross-correlations

Harry Johnston, Nora Elisa Chisari, Shahab Joudaki +25

We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, , through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our config…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics III: Efficient estimation of third-order shear correlation functions and an application to the KiDS-1000 data

Lucas Porth, Sven Heydenreich, Pierre Burger +2

Third-order lensing statistics contain a wealth of cosmological information that is not captured by second-order statistics. However, the computational effort for estimating such s…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 31 cited

KiDS-1000 cosmology: Combined second- and third-order shear statistics

Pierre A. Burger, Lucas Porth, Sven Heydenreich +9

This paper performs the first cosmological parameter analysis of the KiDS-1000 data with second- and third-order shear statistics. This work builds on a series of papers that descr…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

What is the super-sample covariance? A fresh perspective for second-order shear statistics

Laila Linke, Pierre A. Burger, Sven Heydenreich +2

Cosmological analyses of second-order weak lensing statistics require precise and accurate covariance estimates. These covariances are impacted by two sometimes neglected terms: A…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 60 cited

Euclid Preparation. XXVIII. Forecasts for ten different higher-order weak lensing statistics

Euclid Collaboration, V. Ajani, M. Baldi +211

Recent cosmic shear studies have shown that higher-order statistics (HOS) developed by independent teams now outperform standard two-point estimators in terms of statistical precis…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 13 cited

The Information Content of Projected Galaxy Fields

Lucas Porth, Gary M. Bernstein, Robert E. Smith +1

The power spectrum of the nonlinearly evolved large-scale mass distribution recovers only a minority of the information available on the mass fluctuation amplitude. We investigate…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 17 cited

Fast estimation of aperture mass statistics II: Detectability of higher order statistics in current and future surveys

Lucas Porth, Robert E. Smith

We explore an alternative method to the usual shear correlation function approach for the estimation of aperture mass statistics in weak lensing survey data. Our approach builds on…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 8 cited

Fast estimation of aperture-mass statistics I: aperture mass variance and an application to the CFHTLenS data

Lucas Porth, Robert E. Smith, Patrick Simon +2

We explore an alternative method to the usual shear correlation function approach for the estimation of aperture mass statistics in weak lensing survey data. Our approach builds on…