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KiDS+VIKING-450 cosmology with Bayesian hierarchical model redshift distributions

George T. Kyriacou , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Alan F. Heavens , Andrew H. Jaffe , Florent Leclercq , Konrad Kuijken

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Bayesian hierarchical modeling of photometric redshifts in KiDS+VIKING-450 raises the inferred S8 value and reduces tension with Planck to 1.9 sigma.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a Bayesian hierarchical model to infer the redshift distributions of galaxies from photometric data in the KiDS+VIKING-450 weak lensing survey. It uses principal component analysis to select representative templates and samples the distributions while marginalizing over them during cosmological inference. This approach yields a higher clustering parameter S8 compared to earlier analyses of the same data. The result brings the survey's constraints into closer agreement with Planck measurements under flat Lambda CDM. The analysis also reports a matter density value consistent with broader cosmological expectations.

Core claim

Sampling redshift distributions via a template-based Bayesian hierarchical model on subsets of the KiDS+VIKING-450 catalog and marginalizing over the resulting distributions produces S8 = 0.756 ± 0.039 and Omega_m = 0.31 ± 0.10, which lowers the tension with Planck from 2.3 sigma to 1.9 sigma.

What carries the argument

The template-based Bayesian hierarchical model that infers redshift distributions by sampling from principal-component-analysis-selected templates drawn from a large superset of galaxies.

If this is right

Marginalization over redshift uncertainty produces more conservative and higher S8 values from the same weak-lensing data.
The inferred matter density Omega_m remains compatible with other low-redshift probes.
The method supplies a practical route to incorporate photo-z uncertainty into future tomographic analyses without fixing the distributions in advance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same hierarchical sampling could be tested on other photometric surveys to see whether similar upward shifts in S8 appear.
Extending the model to allow joint inference of cosmology and redshift distributions on the full catalog might further tighten the constraints.
If the shift in S8 persists, it would suggest that unaccounted redshift-distribution uncertainty has contributed to the broader S8 discrepancy across weak-lensing datasets.

Load-bearing premise

That subsets of 100000 galaxies drawn from the catalog accurately represent the redshift distribution of the full sample without introducing selection bias.

What would settle it

Repeating the full cosmological inference on the complete galaxy catalog instead of subsets and checking whether S8 and the tension metric remain unchanged.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15078 by Alan F. Heavens, Andrew H. Jaffe, Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo, Florent Leclercq, George T. Kyriacou, Konrad Kuijken.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Hierarchical forward model. fi jk is the fraction of galaxies in bins of template t, redshift z and magnitude m, labelled by i, j,k respectively. t,z,m values are drawn for all N galaxies, from the population specified by fi jk, and noise-free fluxes Fb computed for the B = 9 photometric bands b = 1...B. The bands are defined by transmissions Wb(ν), and the templates by Lt(ν). The observed fluxes Fˆ b incl… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Top: Scatter plot of examples of the first 4 principal components extracted from a large template set. The flux has been scaled and offset for visualisation purposes. Bottom: a 4x4 scatter plot of all templates plotted against component number. The colours indicate the 5 different sets where the k-means clustering algorithm placed the template. and µ,σ are the means and variances of the Gaussian distributi… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: The tomographic redshift distributions generated using the simulated data. The redshift intervals for each tomographic distribution are: 0.1 < z ≤ 0.3, 0.3 < z ≤ 0.5, 0.5 < z ≤ 0.7, 0.7 < z ≤ 0.9 and 0.9 < z ≤ 1.2. The shaded region on each bin (violin plot) indicates the uncertainty associated with the inferred heights of the tomographic redshift distribution. The solid black bars indicate the true distri… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: The median tomographic redshifts based on the redshift distributions of the KV450 data and their standard deviations, using 6 random template sets (3 containing 50 templates, denoted by 50n and 3 containing 100 templates, denoted by 100n). These sets are compared to the same result from the 50 templates selected in roughly equal numbers from each of the clusters of templates grouped by clustering in the fi… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The KV450 tomographic redshift distributions generated using the first set of galaxy samples. The nominal (BPZ) redshift intervals for each tomographic distribution are: 0.1 < z ≤ 0.3, 0.3 < z ≤ 0.5, 0.5 < z ≤ 0.7, 0.7 < z ≤ 0.9 and 0.9 < z ≤ 1.2. The shaded region on each bin (violin plot) indicates the uncertainty associated with the inferred heights of the tomographic redshift distributions. These are … view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: The KV450 BHM tomographic redshift distributions (blue) compared with the DIR and CC methods of Hildebrandt et al. (2020). The blue points show the variability in the mean n(z), determined from the different galaxy subsamples. The others are shown without errors. n(z) by drawing at random from the samples of n(z) at each likelihood evaluation. This is in contrast to the original KV450 analysis which intro… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Panel (a): The marginalised posterior distributions (normalised to the same peak height) in the Ωm −S8 plane for the KV450 analysis (in purple) and Planck (in orange). The inner and outer contours correspond to the 68% and 95% credible intervals respectively. Panel (b): The marginal posterior distribution for the S8 parameter in various experiments. The broken curves correspond to the results obtained when… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: The full marginalised 1D and 2D posterior distribution of both sets of cosmological and nuisance parameters. The inner and outer contours correspond to the 68% and 95% credible intervals. For all parameters, a top-hat prior is assumed except for δc and Ac, for which Gaussian priors are adopted. We refer the reader to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: The distribution of colours of a random subset of KV450 galaxies (in grey) and the PCA templates. Median and maximum errors are shown by the error bars. Benítez N., 2000, ApJ, 536, 571 Bernardeau F., van Waerbeke L., Mellier Y., 1997, A&A, 322, 1 Bilicki M., et al., 2018, A&A, 616, A69 Blas D., Lesgourgues J., Tram T., 2011,J. Cosmology Astropart. Phys., 2011, 034 Bonnett C., et al., 2016, Phys. Rev. D, 94… view at source ↗

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Tomographic redshift distributions from photometric data are crucial ingredients in cosmic shear analysis, since they are required for the theoretical calculation of the signal based on the redshift distribution of the galaxies where the shear field is sampled. In this paper, we develop as a proof of concept Leistedt et al.'s template-based Bayesian Hierarchical Model framework into an application to weak lensing data by sampling the redshift distributions of the galaxies in the KiDS+VIKING-450 survey. We also use a principal component analysis to provide a set of representative templates drawn from a large superset. For computational tractability, subsets of $10^5$ galaxies are chosen to determine the redshift distributions, and we test the sensitivity of the cosmological inference to the subset chosen, finding it to be subdominant compared to the statistical error. We marginalise over the inferred redshift distributions and find that the Bayesian method increases the clustering parameter compared with previous studies, alleviating the $S_8$ tension with Planck, where $S_{8}\equiv\sigma_{8}\sqrt{\Omega_{\tm{m}}/0.3}=0.756\pm 0.039$, assuming flat $\Lambda$CDM. The tension with Planck for this survey is reduced from $2.3\sigma$ to $1.9\sigma$. We also infer a value for the matter density, $\Omega_{\tm{m}}=0.31\pm 0.10$.

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The paper applies Leistedt et al.'s Bayesian hierarchical model to KiDS+VIKING-450 data with PCA templates and 10^5-galaxy subsets, yielding S8 = 0.756 ± 0.039 that eases the Planck tension to 1.9 sigma.

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The core result is a new S8 constraint from marginalizing over photometric redshift distributions in this survey. The authors take the existing hierarchical template model, compress it with PCA, and run it on data subsets to get a higher central value than earlier KiDS analyses, cutting the tension metric from 2.3 to 1.9 sigma while also quoting Omega_m = 0.31 ± 0.10. That numerical shift is the concrete output worth noting.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper develops a Bayesian hierarchical model with PCA-derived templates to infer tomographic redshift distributions n(z) for the KiDS+VIKING-450 weak-lensing survey. For computational reasons, n(z) posteriors are obtained from random subsets of 10^5 galaxies; these posteriors are then marginalized over in the cosmological likelihood, yielding S8 = 0.756 ± 0.039 and Ωm = 0.31 ± 0.10 (flat ΛCDM). The resulting S8 value is higher than in previous analyses of the same data, reducing the tension with Planck from 2.3σ to 1.9σ.

Significance. If the subset-based n(z) marginalization is shown to be unbiased, the work supplies a concrete, data-driven route to propagating photo-z uncertainties into cosmic-shear cosmology. The reported upward shift in S8 and the corresponding reduction in tension would be a noteworthy result for the S8 problem, and the hierarchical framework could be adapted to larger surveys.

major comments (3)

[results / subset-sensitivity test] The claim that subset choice induces only subdominant variation (abstract and results section) is load-bearing for the central S8 result, yet no quantitative test is shown: neither the dispersion in n(z) across multiple independent 10^5-galaxy draws nor a direct comparison to the full-catalog limit is presented. Without this, it is impossible to verify that the reported 0.039 uncertainty on S8 fully captures the sampling uncertainty.
[cosmological inference section] No explicit expression for the marginalised likelihood is given. It is therefore unclear how the n(z) posterior samples are combined with the cosmic-shear data vector (e.g., whether the marginalisation is performed by Monte-Carlo integration over the PCA coefficients or by an analytic approximation).
[redshift-distribution validation] The paper provides no comparison of the Bayesian n(z) posteriors against an independent spectroscopic calibration sample or against the official KiDS photo-z catalogue. Such a cross-check is necessary to demonstrate that the hierarchical model does not introduce systematic shifts in the high-z tail that could mimic the reported S8 increase.

minor comments (2)

[abstract] In the abstract, the LaTeX macro “tm” for “matter” should be replaced by the standard “mathrm” to avoid rendering issues.
[methods] The number of PCA components retained and the precise subset-selection criteria (random, color-balanced, etc.) should be stated explicitly in the methods section rather than left as free parameters without tabulated values.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed report. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of our results where possible.

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Referee: [results / subset-sensitivity test] The claim that subset choice induces only subdominant variation (abstract and results section) is load-bearing for the central S8 result, yet no quantitative test is shown: neither the dispersion in n(z) across multiple independent 10^5-galaxy draws nor a direct comparison to the full-catalog limit is presented. Without this, it is impossible to verify that the reported 0.039 uncertainty on S8 fully captures the sampling uncertainty.

Authors: We agree that a quantitative demonstration is necessary to support the claim. Although internal checks were performed during the analysis, they were not presented with sufficient detail. In the revised manuscript we have added a new figure and accompanying text in the results section that shows the n(z) posteriors from five independent 10^5-galaxy subsets together with the resulting S8 values; the dispersion in S8 across these realisations is 0.008, confirming it is subdominant to the reported 0.039 statistical uncertainty. We have also clarified that the full-catalog limit was not computationally feasible but that the subset-to-subset scatter provides a conservative estimate of the sampling uncertainty. revision: yes
Referee: [cosmological inference section] No explicit expression for the marginalised likelihood is given. It is therefore unclear how the n(z) posterior samples are combined with the cosmic-shear data vector (e.g., whether the marginalisation is performed by Monte-Carlo integration over the PCA coefficients or by an analytic approximation).

Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this omission. In the revised manuscript we have inserted an explicit expression for the marginalised likelihood (new Equation 12 in Section 4) that shows the cosmic-shear likelihood averaged over posterior samples of the PCA coefficients. The marginalisation is performed by Monte-Carlo integration: we draw 1000 samples from the joint posterior on the PCA amplitudes obtained from the hierarchical model and evaluate the shear likelihood for each draw before averaging. revision: yes
Referee: [redshift-distribution validation] The paper provides no comparison of the Bayesian n(z) posteriors against an independent spectroscopic calibration sample or against the official KiDS photo-z catalogue. Such a cross-check is necessary to demonstrate that the hierarchical model does not introduce systematic shifts in the high-z tail that could mimic the reported S8 increase.

Authors: We acknowledge the importance of external validation. As the present work is framed as a proof-of-concept demonstration of the hierarchical framework, we did not perform such comparisons in the original submission. In the revised manuscript we have added a direct comparison of our Bayesian n(z) posteriors to the official KiDS photo-z catalogue (new Figure 8 and text in Section 3.3), showing consistency within uncertainties and no significant shift in the high-redshift tail. A comparison against an independent spectroscopic calibration sample is not feasible with the data products used in this study; we have added a brief discussion of this limitation and note that such a test will be pursued in future work with overlapping spectroscopic surveys. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper extends Leistedt et al.'s Bayesian hierarchical model to infer n(z) posteriors from 10^5-galaxy subsets of the KiDS+VIKING-450 photometric catalog, then marginalizes over those posteriors inside the cosmological likelihood to obtain S8 = 0.756 ± 0.039. This is a standard data-driven posterior, not a quantity defined in terms of itself or obtained by fitting a parameter and then relabeling the fit as a prediction. No load-bearing step reduces by the paper's own equations to a self-citation, an ansatz smuggled via citation, or a uniqueness theorem imported from the same authors. The subset-sensitivity test is presented as an empirical check whose variation is stated to be subdominant; it does not create a definitional loop. The result remains externally falsifiable against Planck and independent surveys.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The analysis rests on the assumption that the PCA templates span the relevant galaxy population and that the hierarchical model correctly captures the joint posterior over redshift distributions and cosmology; no new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (2)

number of PCA components
Chosen to represent the template library; exact count not stated in abstract.
subset size (10^5 galaxies)
Selected for computational tractability; sensitivity tested but not derived from first principles.

axioms (2)

domain assumption flat ΛCDM cosmology
Stated explicitly when reporting S8 and Ωm constraints.
domain assumption photometric redshifts can be modeled as draws from a template library with hierarchical priors
Core modeling choice taken from Leistedt et al. and applied here.

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We marginalise over the inferred redshift distributions and find that the Bayesian method increases the clustering parameter... S8 ≡ σ8 √(Ωm / 0.3) = 0.756 ± 0.039
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