The Kilo-Degree Survey

By J. T. A. Jong, G. V. Verdoes Kleijn, K. Kuijken, E. Valentijn, KiDS and Astro-WISE Consortiums. Experimental astronomy (Print), 2012

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The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) is a 1500 square degree optical imaging survey with the recently commissioned OmegaCAM wide-field imager on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). A suite of data products will be delivered to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the community by the KiDS survey team. Spread over Europe, the KiDS team uses Astro-WISE as its main tool to collaborate efficiently and pool hardware resources. In Astro-WISE the team shares, calibrates and archives all survey data. The data-centric architectural design realizes a dynamic ‘live archive’ in which new KiDS survey products of improved quality can be shared with the team and eventually the full astronomical community in a flexible and controllable manner.

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The first-year shear catalog of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Survey (2017, background): “Currently there are three ongoing wide-area sky surveys that have weak lensing among their primary science cases: the Kilo-Degree Survey1 (KiDS: de Jong et al. 2013), the Dark Energy Survey2 (DES), and the survey that is the subject of this paper: the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey3 (HSC).”
The realm of the galaxy protoclusters (2016, background): “Surveys with a high discovery potential are the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS; 1500 deg2 in ugri; de Jong et al., 2013), the Dark Energy Survey (DES; 5000 deg2 in grizY ; Diehl et al., 2014) and the Hyper Suprime-Cam Wide survey (HSC-Wide; 1400 deg2 in grizY ; Takada et al., 2014).”
CFHTLenS: the relation between galaxy dark matter haloes and baryons from weak gravitational lensing (2013, background): “With currently ongoing (for instance DES5 or KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013) 5 www.darkenergysurvey.org and planned (such as LSST6, HSC7 or Euclid8; Laureijs et al. 2011) surveys, weak lensing analyses will become yet more powerful than the one presented in this paper.”
The fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey: ugri imaging and nine-band optical-IR photometry over 1000 square degrees (2019, background): “The Article published by EDP Sciences A2, page 1 of 25 Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013)1 is the deepest of these, and the one that exploits the best observing conditions.”
GalSim: The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit (2014, background): “More ambitious ground-based projects are already underway, including the Dark Energy Survey 5 (DES: see e.g. Sánchez et al., 2010), Hyper Suprime-Cam 6 (HSC: see Miyazaki et al., 2012) and the Kilo Degree Survey 7 (KiDS: see de Jong et al., 2013).”
The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS (2015, methodology): “Although the survey was only specified to have seeing in the range 1–1.4 arcsec FWHM (full width at halfmaximum), with the better seeing going to the VST KiDS survey (de Jong et al. 2013), ATLAS is proving to have better median seeing than expected, at the subarcsecond level.”
The Dark Energy Survey Image Processing Pipeline (2018, background): “…York et al. 2000), the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1 or PS1; Kaiser et al. 2010), Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013), the Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey (HSC; Aihara et al. 2017) and the future Large Survey Synoptic Telescope (LSST; Ivezic et al.…”
KiDS+GAMA : cosmology constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, and angular clustering (2017, methodology): “The KiDS ( de Jong et al. 2013) is an optical imaging survey that aims to span 1500 deg2 of the sky in four optical bands, u, g, r, and i, complemented with observations in five infrared bands from the VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy (VIKING) survey (Edge et al. 2013).”
Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data (2014, methodology): “On the other hand, photometric surveys such as SDSS (York et al. 2000), PanSTARRS (Kaiser, Tonry & Luppino 2000), KiDS (de Jong et al. 2013), HSC1 or LSST (Tyson et al. 2003) are more efficient and usually deeper, more complete and nearly unbiased, but do not provide a complete 3D view of the…”
The first and second data releases of the Kilo-Degree Survey (2015, methodology): “How KiDS will benefit the primary and secondary science drivers is discussed in more detail in de Jong et al. (2013).”
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB polarization at 200 < ℓ < 9000 (2014, neutral): “Overlapping surveys include SDSS [77], BOSS [15], CFHTLS [21], XMMXXL [93], Herschel (HerMES & HeLMS, [65, 90]), HSC [83], DES [30], GAMA [32], and KiDS [29].”
Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): End of survey report and data release 2 (2015, methodology): “We elect not to refine the process further in anticipation of the higher quality data from the VST KiDS and VISTA VIKING surveys.”
The Hyper Suprime-Cam Software Pipeline (2017, background): “Because the SSP wide observing strategy is depth-first, the survey already goes significantly deeper than other ongoing ground-based optical surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES; Dark Energy Survey Collaboration et al. 2016) and the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013).”