The fifth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey: Multi-epoch optical/NIR imaging covering wide and legacy-calibration fields
Angus H. Wright, Konrad Kuijken, H. Hildebrandt, M. Radovich, Maciej Bilicki, Andrej Dvornik, F. Getman, Catherine Heymans, Henk Hoekstra, Shangrong Li, L. Miller, N. R. Napolitano, Qianli Xia, Marika Asgari, M. Brescia, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Pierre Burger, G. Castignani, S. Cavuoti, J. T. A. de Jong, A. C. Edge, Benjamin Giblin, C. Giocoli, Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Priyanka Jalan, Benjamin Joachimi, Anjitha John William, Shahab Joudaki, Arun Kannawadi, Gursharanjit Kaur, F. La Barbera, Laila Linke, Constance Mahony, M. Maturi, L. Moscardini, Szymon J. Nakoneczny, M. Paolillo, Lucas Porth, E. Puddu, Robert Reischke, Peter Schneider, M. Sereno, Huanyuan Shan, Cristobál Sifón, Benjamin Stölzner, Tilman Tröster, E. A. Valentijn, Jan Luca van den Busch, G. Verdoes Kleijn, Anna Wittje, Ziang Yan, Ji Yao, Mijin Yoon, Yun-Hao Zhang
Abstract
We present the final data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-DR5), a public European Southern Observatory (ESO) wide-field imaging survey optimised for weak gravitational lensing studies. We combined matched-depth multi-wavelength observations from the VLT Survey Telescope and the VISTA Kilo-degree INfrared Galaxy (VIKING) survey to create a nine-band optical-to-near-infrared survey spanning 1347 deg 2 . The median r -band 5 σ limiting magnitude is 24.8 with median seeing 0.7″. The main survey footprint includes 4 deg 2 of overlap with existing deep spectroscopic surveys. We complemented these data in DR5 with a targeted campaign to secure an additional 23 deg 2 of KiDS- and VIKING-like imaging over a range of additional deep spectroscopic survey fields. From these fields, we extracted a catalogue of 126 085 sources with both spectroscopic and photometric redshift information, which enables the robust calibration of photometric redshifts across the full survey footprint. In comparison to previous releases, DR5 represents a 34% areal extension and includes an i -band re-observation of the full footprint, thereby increasing the effective i -band depth by 0.4 magnitudes and enabling multi-epoch science. Our processed nine-band imaging, single- and multi-band catalogues with masks, and homogenised photometry and photometric redshifts can be accessed through the ESO Archive Science Portal.