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20182026
most citedThe CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

299 citations · 995 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Probabilistic redshift estimation of unresolved galaxies from multi-band background light maps

Shun-Sheng Li, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Accurate knowledge of the redshift distributions of unresolved galaxy populations is essential for extracting the cosmological information encoded in the cosmic optical background.…

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

pop-cosmos: Forward modeling KiDS-1000 redshift distributions using realistic galaxy populations

Boris Leistedt, Hiranya V. Peiris, Anik Halder +13

The accuracy of the cosmological constraints from Stage~IV galaxy surveys will be limited by how well the galaxy redshift distributions can be inferred. We have addressed this chal…

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

KiDS-1000 cosmic shear reanalysis using MetaCalibration

Mijin Yoon, Henk Hoekstra, Shun-Sheng Li +10

A number of cosmic shear studies have reported results that are in mild tension with the Planck cosmic microwave measurement. To explore if this can be caused by biases in the shea…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 299 cited

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

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★ 2 cited

Quantifying the Detectability of Milky Way Satellites with Image Simulations: a Case Study with KiDS

Shiyang Zhang, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ziang Yan +6

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, which can be detected as resolved satellite systems of the Milky Way, are critical to understanding galaxy formation, evolution, and the nature of dark…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Weak lensing constraints on the stellar-to-halo mass relation of galaxy groups with simulation-informed scatter

Shun-Sheng Li, Henk Hoekstra, Konrad Kuijken +2

Understanding the scaling relation between baryonic observables and dark matter halo properties is crucial not only for studying galaxy formation and evolution, but also for derivi…

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.CO2023★ 43 cited

KiDS-1000: Cosmology with improved cosmic shear measurements

Shun-Sheng Li, Henk Hoekstra, Konrad Kuijken +12

We present refined cosmological parameter constraints derived from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). Our main improvements i…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 38 cited

KiDS-Legacy calibration: unifying shear and redshift calibration with the SKiLLS multi-band image simulations

Shun-Sheng Li, Konrad Kuijken, Henk Hoekstra +9

We present SKiLLS, a suite of multi-band image simulations for the weak lensing analysis of the complete Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), dubbed KiDS-Legacy analysis. The resulting catal…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 11 cited

KiDS+VIKING-450: An internal-consistency test for cosmic shear tomography with a colour-based split of source galaxies

Shun-Sheng Li, Konrad Kuijken, Henk Hoekstra +3

We performed an internal-consistency test of the KiDS+VIKING-450 (KV450) cosmic shear analysis with a colour-based split of source galaxies. Utilising the same measurements and cal…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 26 cited

Spitzer + VLTI-GRAVITY Measure the Lens Mass of a Nearby Microlensing Event

Weicheng Zang, Subo Dong, Andrew Gould +24

We report the lens mass and distance measurements of the nearby microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555. We measure the microlens parallax vector using Spitzer and gro…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge

Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang +90

We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-sour…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 17 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing

Shun-Sheng Li, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +102

We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically b…

gr-qc2018★ 121 cited

Detecting Lensing-Induced Diffraction in Astrophysical Gravitational Waves

Liang Dai, Shun-Sheng Li, Barak Zackay +2

Gravitational waves emitted from compact binary coalescence can be subject to wave diffraction if they are gravitationally lensed by an intervening mass clump whose Schwarzschild t…