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KiDS-Legacy: Consistency of cosmic shear measurements and joint cosmological constraints with external probes

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Abstract

© The Authors 2025.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 compared cosmological constraints between subsets of the KiDS-Legacy dataset split by redshift, angular scale, galaxy colour, and spatial region. We also reviewed a range of two-point cosmic shear statistics. As all the data passed our set of consistency metric tests, we demonstrate that KiDS-Legacy is the most internally consistent KiDS catalogue to date. In a joint cosmological analysis of KiDS-Legacy and DES Y3 cosmic shear, combined with data from the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernovae compilation and baryon acoustic oscillations from DESI Y1, we report constraints that are consistent with Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background, with (Formula presented)


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Author(s): Stolzner B, Wright AH, Asgari M, Heymans C, Hildebrandt H, Hoekstra H, Joachimi B, Kuijken K, Li S-S, Mahony C, Reischke R, Yoon M, Bilicki M, Burger P, Chisari NE, Dvornik A, Georgiou C, Giblin B, Harnois-Deraps J, Jalan P, William AJ, Joudaki S, Lesci GF, Linke L, Loureiro A, Maturi M, Moscardini L, Napolitano NR, Porth L, Radovich M, Troster T, Valentijn E, Von Wietersheim-Kramsta M, Wittje A, Yan Z, Zhang Y-H

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Year: 2025

Volume: 702

Online publication date: 17/10/2025

Acceptance date: 31/07/2025

Date deposited: 11/11/2025

ISSN (print): 0004-6361

ISSN (electronic): 1432-0746

Publisher: EDP Sciences

URL: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554893

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554893


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EPSRC EP/Y017137/1
UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/V000594/1

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