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KiDS+VIKING-450:Improved cosmological parameter constraints from redshift calibration with self-organising maps
Authors
Jan Luca van den Busch
Catherine Heymans
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Hendrik Hildebrandt
Benjamin Joachimi
Arun Kannawadi
Konrad Kuijken
Angus H. Wright
Publication date
22 July 2020
Publisher
'EDP Sciences'
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Abstract
We present updated cosmological constraints for the KiDS+VIKING-450 cosmic shear data set (KV450), estimated using redshift distributions and photometric samples defined using self-organising maps (SOMs). Our fiducial analysis finds marginal posterior constraints of
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; a difference with respect to the fiducial that is both significantly smaller than, and in the opposite direction to, the equivalent shift from previous work. These results suggest that our improved cosmological parameter estimates are insensitive to pathological misrepresentation of photometric sources by the spectroscopy used for direct redshift calibration, and therefore that this systematic effect cannot be responsible for the observed difference between
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estimates made with KV450 and Planck CMB probes.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 4 appendices, accepted for publication in A&A Letter
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