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20132026
most citedCosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension

540 citations · 903 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

KiDS-DR5: Exploring dust transport in dark matter halos of galaxies

Eray Genc, Angus H. Wright, Hendrik Hildebrandt +12

We analyse a well-defined sample of galaxies from the final data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-DR5), selected using magnitude, photometric redshift, and stellar mass cuts…

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

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

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.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

The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000

Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64

Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…

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.HE2025

Three-dimensional Search for Annihilating Dark Matter in CBe dSph with the MAGIC Telescopes

Stefan Fröse, Dominik Martin Elässer, Hendrik Hildebrandt +1

Dark matter (DM) candidates, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), can annihilate to Standard Model particles, subsequently producing gamma rays. In this work, we s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Measurement of circumgalactic extinction in the Kilo-Degree Survey's Data Release 4

Eray Genc, Angus H. Wright, Hendrik Hildebrandt

Galaxies reside in extended dark matter halos, but their baryonic content, especially dust, remains less well understood. We aim to investigate the amount and distribution of dust…

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

Constraining the dispersion measure redshift relation with simulation-based inference

Koustav Konar, Robert Reischke, Steffen Hagstotz +2

We use the dispersion measure (DM) of localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to constrain cosmological and host galaxy parameters using simulation-based inference (SBI) for the first t…

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.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★ 1 cited

Fast radio bursts as a probe of gravity on cosmological scales

Dennis Neumann, Robert Reischke, Steffen Hagstotz +1

We explore the potential for improving constraints on gravity by leveraging correlations in the dispersion measure derived from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in combination with cosmic…

astro-ph.CO2024

KiDS-1000 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology from peak count statistics

Joachim Harnois-Deraps, Sven Heydenreich, Benjamin Giblin +10

We analyse the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and extract cosmological parameter constraints based on the cosmic shear peak count statistics. Peaks are i…