The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Hendrik Hildebrandt - AIfA Bonn KiDS: 1500 sq. deg. survey • VLT Survey Telescope (VST) • four bands: ugri • superb image quality • same footprint as VIKING • overlap with 2dF, GAMA, • SDSS The KiDS Team Konrad Kuijken Massimo Viola Catherine Heymans Henk Hoekstra Ami Choi Hendrik Hildebrandt Marcello Cacciato Alexandra Amon Patrick Simon Maciek Bilicki Yanchuan Chai Thomas Erben Kristian Zarb Adami Mario Radovich Ricardo Herbonnet Benjamin Giblin Axel Buddendiek Ian Fenech Conti Margot Brouwer Alexander Mead Alexandru Tudorica PADUA Cristobal Sifon John Peacock Reiko Nakajima MALTA Jelte de Jong Peter Schneider Nicola Napolitano Ewout Helmich EDINBURGH Douglas Applegate Massimo Brescia Ludovic van Waerbeke Nancy Irrisari Dominik Klaes Edwin Valentijn Massimo Cappacioli Joachim Harnois-Deraps Martin Borstad Eriksen Alistair Edge Oliver Cordes Gijs Verdoes Kleijn Stefano Cavuoti Alireza Hojjati Jeroen Franse Tim Schrabback John McFarland Giovanni Covone Tilman Troester Arthur Jakobs DURHAM Hugo Buddelmeijer Massimo Dall’Ora Fabian Köhlinger BONN Gert Sikkema Fedor Getman VANCOUVER Berenice Pila-Diez Kor Begeman Aniello Grado Remco van der Burg Andrey Belikov Francesco La Barbera Elisabetta Semboloni Danny Boxhorn Giuseppe Longo Carlo Enrico Petrillo Maurizio Paolillo LEIDEN Willem-Jan Friend Emanuella Puddu Edo van Uitert Leon Koopmans Agatino Riffato Benjamin Joachimi Reynier Peletier Nivya Roy Lance Miller Chris Blake Tom Kitching Creszenzo Tortora Elisa Chisari Shahab Joudaki Will Sutherland Pedro Lacerdo GRONINGEN Zhuoyi Huang Julian Merten SWINBURNE LONDON MPS LINDAU NAPLES OXFORD Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Credit: M. Sachs Mellier (1999) Shape measurements Bridle et al. (2008) KiDS photometric redshifts 0.09 spec COSMOS 0.08 0.07 ∑ p(z) CDFS 0.06 ) c e p s 0.05 19 only wide, deep, and well-matched optical+NIR survey  Preparation for Euclid and WFIRST. • KiDS + CFHTLenS + RCSLenS + some smaller CFHT projects  = ~3000 sq. deg. of very high quality lensing data. Dark energy CFHTLenS collaboration

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