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1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

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

   Stölzner, Wright, Asgari et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2025

   The paper tests whether the final Kilo-Degree Survey cosmic shear data agree with themselves, then combines them with DES Y3 and other probes to find constraints consistent with Planck.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says KiDS-Legacy passed all its internal consistency tests, making it the most internally consistent Kilo-Degree Survey catalogue so far.“With the data passing all our consistency metric tests, we demonstrate that KiDS-Legacy is the most internally consistent KiDS catalogue to date.”
   2. UncheckedCombining KiDS-Legacy and DES Y3 cosmic shear with supernovae and DESI baryon acoustic oscillations gives S8 = 0.814 and σ8 = 0.802, consistent with Planck.“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 find constraints consistent with Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background with $S_8\equiv σ_8…”