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

119 citations · 406 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

KiDS-Legacy: The consistency test of the large-scale structure with Bernardeau-Nishimichi-Taruya transform

Shiming Gu, Ziang Yan, Ludovic van Waerbeke +10

We perform the first -cut cosmic shear analysis of the KiDS-Legacy survey. This method uses the Bernardeau-Nishimichi-Taruya (BNT) transform to construct weak-lensing kernels th…

astro-ph.CO2026

KiDS-Legacy: Joint analysis of second- and third-order cosmic shear

L. Linke, L. Porth, P. Burger +21

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is a powerful cosmological probe. While most analyses rely on second-order correlations, these are primarily sensitive to the parameter combin…

astro-ph.CO2026

cloelib: A Flexible Python Library for Computing Cosmological Observables in the Euclid Era

Marco Bonici, Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera, Pedro Carrilho +54

cloelib is a Python library developed to compute cosmological observables within the Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE) ecosystem (cloe-org). As cosmology enters…

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

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

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.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.CO2024★ 7 cited

KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects

Ziang Yan, Angus H. Wright, Nora Elisa Chisari +20

Photometric galaxy surveys, despite their limited resolution along the line of sight, encode rich information about the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe thanks to the hi…

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.CO2024★ 7 cited

Third-order intrinsic alignment of SDSS BOSS LOWZ galaxies

Laila Linke, Susan Pyne, Benjamin Joachimi +4

Cosmic shear is a powerful probe of cosmology, but it is affected by the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy shapes with the large-scale structure. Upcoming surveys like Euclid and…

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.CO2022★ 9 cited

A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics II: Analytic covariance estimate

Laila Linke, Sven Heydenreich, Pierre A. Burger +1

Third-order weak lensing statistics are a promising tool for cosmological analyses since they extract cosmological information in the non-Gaussianity of the cosmic large-scale stru…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 25 cited

A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics I: Modelling and validation

Sven Heydenreich, Laila Linke, Pierre Burger +1

In this work, which is the first of a series to prepare a cosmological parameter analysis with third-order cosmic shear statistics, we model both the shear three-point correlation…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

KiDS+VIKING+GAMA: Halo occupation distributions and correlations of satellite numbers with a new halo model of the galaxy-matter bispectrum for galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing

Laila Linke, Patrick Simon, Peter Schneider +3

Halo models and halo occupation distributions (HODs) are important tools to model the galaxy and matter distribution. We present and assess a new method for constraining the parame…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 5 cited

KiDS+VIKING+GAMA: Testing semi-analytic models of galaxy evolution with galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing

Laila Linke, Patrick Simon, Peter Schneider +9

Several semi-analytic models (SAMs) try to explain how galaxies form, evolve and interact inside the dark matter large-scale structure. These SAMs can be tested by comparing their…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Measuring galaxy-galaxy-galaxy-lensing with higher precision and accuracy

Laila Linke, Patrick Simon, Peter Schneider +1

Galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing (G3L) is a powerful tool for constraining the three-point correlation between the galaxy and matter distribution and thereby models of galaxy evolution…