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20192026
most citedThe CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

299 citations · 548 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

gr-qc2026

Search for Compact Binary Coalescences with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the Second Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences with secondary mass between 0.2 M and 1 M and primary mass between 0.2 M and 10 M, restricting the componen…

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

Cosmic-web Environmental Impacts on the Halo Substructure Boosts to Dark Matter Annihilation Signals

Feven Markos Hunde, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Maciej Bilicki

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles is expected to produce Standard Model particles, providing a potential indirect signature of DM. The clumpy substructure of DM haloes…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

KiDS-Legacy: WIMP dark matter constraints from the cross-correlation of weak lensing and Fermi-LAT gamma rays

Shiyang Zhang, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ziang Yan +13

Dark matter dominates the matter content of the Universe, and its properties can be constrained through large-scale structure probes such as the cross-correlation between the unres…

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

Angular clustering and bias of photometric quasars in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4

Anjitha John William, Maciej Bilicki, Wojciech A. Hellwing +2

We investigate the angular clustering and effective bias of photometrically selected quasars in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4 (KiDS DR4). We update the previous photometric…

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★ 5 cited

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-1000: cosmological constraints and mass calibration from counts and weak lensing

G. F. Lesci, F. Marulli, L. Moscardini +14

We present the joint modelling of weak-lensing and count measurements of the galaxy clusters detected with the AMICO code, in the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiD…

astro-ph.CO2025

Anisotropic Counts-in-Cells in Redshift Space: A New Route to Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Surveys

Paweł Drozda, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Maciej Bilicki

We introduce a novel extension of the volume-averaged correlation function (VACF) framework by replacing the traditional spherical smoothing kernels with anisotropic, ellipsoidal w…

astro-ph.CO2025

Skewness as a Probe of Gravity: Real and Redshift Space Counts-In-Cells

Paweł Drozda, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Maciej Bilicki

We study the counts-in-cells reduced skewness for dark matter, halo, and galaxy distributions in both real and redshift space, using the ELEPHANT ($\textit{Extended LEnsing P…

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.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★ 8 cited

Intrinsic galaxy alignments in the KiDS-1000 bright sample: dependence on colour, luminosity, morphology, and galaxy scale

Christos Georgiou, Nora Elisa Chisari, Maciej Bilicki +4

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies is a major astrophysical contaminant to weak gravitational lensing measurements, and the study of its dependence on galaxy properties helps…

astro-ph.CO2025

Hybrid-z: Enhancing Kilo-Degree Survey bright galaxy sample photometric redshifts with deep learning

Anjitha John William, Priyanka Jalan, Maciej Bilicki +3

We employ deep learning (DL) to improve photometric redshifts (photo-s) in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4 Bright galaxy sample (KiDS-Bright DR4). This dataset, used as a…

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★ 11 cited

KiDS-1000: Weak lensing and intrinsic alignment around luminous red galaxies

Maria Cristina Fortuna, Andrej Dvornik, Henk Hoekstra +8

We study the properties of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) selected from the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) via galaxy-galaxy lensing of the background gala…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Enhancing Photometric Redshift Catalogs Through Color-Space Analysis: Application to KiDS-Bright Galaxies

Priyanka Jalan, Maciej Bilicki, Wojciech A. Hellwing +11

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Caught in the cosmic web: environmental effects on subhalo abundance and internal density profiles

Feven Markos Hunde, Oliver Newton, Wojciech A. Hellwing +2

Using the high-resolution -body cosmological simulation COLOR, we explore the cosmic web (CW) environmental effects on subhalo populations and their internal properties. We use…