Persistence or Turnover? A galaxy–galaxy lensing programme for the excess-acceleration fork in KiDS-1000. II. Certified spectroscopic isolation, a four-fold reproduced deep-tail slope, and a frozen decision protocol for DESI DR2

Summary and scope

A follow-up lensing analysis studies isolation selection and reports a deep-tail slope for its stated catalogue cuts. The registered primary precision threshold was missed: seven points qualified and the eighth had a 0.105-dex uncertainty against a 0.10-dex limit. Supplementary slope comparisons and full-profile fits favour different aspects of the tested models. They do not constitute a general exclusion of dark-matter or modified-gravity theories, and the framework’s original gravitational coupling remains unestablished. The data work and frozen decision protocol are historical results; no further campaign is commissioned here.

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How to cite

Elliman, D. (2026). Persistence or Turnover? A galaxy–galaxy lensing programme for the excess-acceleration fork in KiDS-1000. II. Certified spectroscopic isolation, a four-fold reproduced deep-tail slope, and a frozen decision protocol for DESI DR2. Neuro-Symbolic Ltd technical report. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21215879

@techreport{elliman2026r8lensingforkpaper2,
  author      = {Elliman, David},
  title       = {Persistence or Turnover? A galaxy–galaxy lensing programme for the excess-acceleration fork in KiDS-1000. II. Certified spectroscopic isolation, a four-fold reproduced deep-tail slope, and a frozen decision protocol for DESI DR2},
  institution = {Neuro-Symbolic Ltd},
  year        = {2026},
  doi         = {10.5281/zenodo.21215879},
  url         = {https://neusym.ai/papers/r8_lensing_fork_paper2/}
}