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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 467, 期 2, 页码 1627-1651出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx200
关键词
gravitational lensing: weak; surveys; cosmology: observations
资金
- European Regional Development Fund [ERDF-080]
- People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme [627288]
- European Research Council [279396]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [614.001.103]
- STFC [ST/N000919/1]
- STFC [ST/N000919/1, ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/N000919/1, ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We describe and test the pipeline used to measure the weak-lensing shear signal from the KiloDegree Survey (KiDS). It includes a novel method of ` self-calibration' that partially corrects for the effect of noise bias. We also discuss the 'weight bias' that may arise in optimally weighted measurements, and present a scheme to mitigate that bias. To study the residual biases arising from both galaxy selection and shear measurement, and to derive an empirical correction to reduce the shear biases to less than or similar to 1 per cent, we create a suite of simulated images whose properties are close to those of the KiDS survey observations. We find that the use of ` self-calibration' reduces the additive and multiplicative shear biases significantly, although further correction via a calibration scheme is required, which also corrects for a dependence of the bias on galaxy properties. We find that the calibration relation itself is biased by the use of noisy, measured galaxy properties, which may limit the final accuracy that can be achieved. We assess the accuracy of the calibration in the tomographic bins used for the KiDS cosmic shear analysis, testing in particular the effect of possible variations in the uncertain distributions of galaxy size, magnitude and ellipticity, and conclude that the calibration procedure is accurate at the level of multiplicative bias less than or similar to 1 per cent required for the KiDS cosmic shear analysis.
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