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Table 2.

Shear bias for the six tomographic bins.

zB range Ratio of Neff ΔmPSF mraw mfinal
(blending / whole)
0.1 < zB ≤ 0.3 0.345 −0.012 ± 0.034 +0.002 ± 0.001 −0.012 ± 0.006 −0.013 ± 0.017
0.3 < zB ≤ 0.5 0.332 −0.003 ± 0.014 +0.004 ± 0.001 −0.021 ± 0.004 −0.018 ± 0.007
0.5 < zB ≤ 0.7 0.365 −0.021 ± 0.012 +0.004 ± 0.001 −0.006 ± 0.004 −0.008 ± 0.007
0.7 < zB ≤ 0.9 0.366 −0.018 ± 0.008 +0.003 ± 0.001 +0.022 ± 0.004 +0.019 ± 0.006
0.9 < zB ≤ 1.2 0.370 −0.013 ± 0.007 +0.005 ± 0.001 +0.033 ± 0.005 +0.034 ± 0.006
1.2 < zB ≤ 2.0 0.358 +0.000 ± 0.008 +0.007 ± 0.002 +0.064 ± 0.007 +0.072 ± 0.008

Notes. The ratio of Neff between the blending-only simulation and the whole simulation is calculated from the measured catalogue with the lensfit weight taken into account. The is the mean residual bias introduced by the shear-interplay effect, estimated from the blending-only simulations (see Sect. 5.2 for details). The correction to the whole sample should also account for the Neff ratio and the correlation with the signal-to-ratio and resolution (see Sect. 5.2 for details). The ΔmPSF is the residual bias introduced by the PSF modelling errors (see Sect. 5.3 for details). The mraw results are derived from the idealised constant shear simulations (Sect. 5.1), and the mfinal are our final estimates with the corrections for the shear-interplay effect and PSF modelling bias (Sect. 5.4). The uncertainties quoted along with individual m values are reported by the linear regression fitting, thus only reflecting the statistical power of SKiLLS simulations. All results are based on the KiDS-DR4 re-run with the updated lensfit before any redshift calibration. They only indicate the general performance of the updated lensfit.

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