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most citedKiDS-1000 Cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics

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astro-ph.CO2026

Velocityformer: Broken-Symmetry-Matched Equivariant Graph Transformers for Cosmological Velocity Reconstruction

Tilman Tröster, David Mirkovic, Veronika Oehl +1

Precise measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect - a probe of the large-scale distribution of baryonic matter, a key observable for cosmological inference - req…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Non-Gaussian Weak-Lensing Likelihood: A Multivariate Copula Construction and Impact on Cosmological Constraints

Veronika Oehl, Tilman Tröster

We present a framework to compute non-Gaussian likelihoods for two-point correlation functions. The non-Gaussianity is most pronounced on large scales that will be well-measured by…

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★ 1 cited

Baryonification: An alternative to hydrodynamical simulations for cosmological studies

Aurel Schneider, Michael Kovač, Jozef Bucko +8

We present an improved baryonification (BFC) model that modifies dark-matter-only -body simulations to generate particle-level outputs for gas, dark matter, and stars. Unlike pr…

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★ 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★ 1 cited

The exact non-Gaussian weak lensing likelihood: A framework to calculate analytic likelihoods for correlation functions on masked Gaussian random fields

Veronika Oehl, Tilman Tröster

We present exact non-Gaussian joint likelihoods for auto- and cross-correlation functions on arbitrarily masked spherical Gaussian random fields. Our considerations apply to spin-0…

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Comparing Mass Mapping Reconstruction Methods with Minkowski Functionals

Nisha Grewal, Joe Zuntz, Tilman Tröster

Using higher-order statistics to capture cosmological information from weak lensing surveys often requires a transformation of observed shear to a measurement of the convergence si…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 160 cited

DES Y3 + KiDS-1000: Consistent cosmology combining cosmic shear surveys

Dark Energy Survey, Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration, : +160

We present a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) and the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) in a collaborative effort between the two survey teams. We find c…

astro-ph.CO2023

ACT-DR5 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters: weak lensing mass calibration with KiDS

Naomi Clare Robertson, Cristóbal Sifón, Marika Asgari +24

We present weak gravitational lensing measurements of a sample of 157 clusters within the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), detected with a thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal by…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

On constraining Cosmology and the Halo Mass Function with Weak Gravitational Lensing

Shiming Gu, Marc-Antoine Dor, Ludovic van Waerbeke +4

The discrepancy between the weak lensing (WL) and the {\it Planck} measurements of has been a subject of several studies. These studies tend to show that a suppression of the…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

KiDS-1000: cross-correlation with Planck cosmic microwave background lensing and intrinsic alignment removal with self-calibration

Ji Yao, Huanyuan Shan, Pengjie Zhang +11

Galaxy shear - cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence cross-correlations contain additional information on cosmology to auto-correlations. While being immune to cert…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 27 cited

The N5K Challenge: Non-Limber Integration for LSST Cosmology

C. D. Leonard, T. Ferreira, X. Fang +9

The rapidly increasing statistical power of cosmological imaging surveys requires us to reassess the regime of validity for various approximations that accelerate the calculation o…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 4 cited

Cosmology from Galaxy Redshift Surveys with PointNet

Sotiris Anagnostidis, Arne Thomsen, Tomasz Kacprzak +4

In recent years, deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art results in the analysis of point cloud data. In cosmology, galaxy redshift surveys resemble such a permutat…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 27 cited

KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Constraints from density split statistics

Pierre A. Burger, Oliver Friedrich, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +13

Context. Weak lensing and clustering statistics beyond two-point functions can capture non-Gaussian information about the matter density field, thereby improving the constraints on…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

Minkowski Functionals in Joint Galaxy Clustering & Weak Lensing Analyses

Nisha Grewal, Joe Zuntz, Tilman Tröster +1

We investigate the inclusion of clustering maps in a weak lensing Minkowski functional (MF) analysis of DES-like and LSST-like simulations to constrain cosmological parameters. The…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 66 cited

KiDS-1000: cosmic shear with enhanced redshift calibration

J. L. van den Busch, A. H. Wright, H. Hildebrandt +8

We present a cosmic shear analysis with an improved redshift calibration for the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) using self-organising maps (SOMs). Compar…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 1 cited

Constraining AGN feedback model with SZ profile

Hideki Tanimura, Gary Hinshaw, Ian G. McCarthy +7

Relativistic jets from AGN have a wide range of impacts on galaxy groups and clusters and are key for understanding their formation and physical properties. However, this non-gravi…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Pure-mode correlation functions for cosmic shear and application to KiDS-1000

Peter Schneider, Marika Asgari, Yasaman Najafi Jozani +10

One probe for systematic effects in gravitational lensing surveys is the presence of so-called B-modes in the cosmic shear two-point correlation functions ξ_\pm(\vt), since lensing…