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    Weak-lensing study in VOICE survey - I. Shear measurement
    (Oxford University Press, 2018-09) Fu, L.; Liu, D.; Radovich, M.; Liu, X.; Pan, C.; Fan, Z.; Covone, G.; Vaccari, M.; Amaro, V.; Brescia, M.; Capaccioli, M.; De Cicco, D.; Grado, A.; Limatola, L.; Miller, L.; Napolitano, N.R.; Paolillo, M.; Pignata, G.
    The VST Optical Imaging of the CDFS and ES1 Fields (VOICE) Survey is a Guaranteed Time programme carried out with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope (VST) telescope to provide deep optical imaging over two 4 deg2 patches of the sky centred on the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) and ES1 as part of the ESO-Spitzer Imaging Extragalactic Survey. We present the cosmic shear measurement over the 4 deg2 covering the CDFS region in the r band using LensFit. Each of the four tiles of 1 deg2 has more than 100 exposures, of which more than 50 exposures passed a series of image quality selection criteria for weak-lensing study. The 5σ limiting magnitude in r band is 26.1 for point sources, which is ≳1 mag deeper than other weak-lensing survey in the literature [e.g. the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) at VST]. The photometric redshifts are estimated using the VOICE u, g, r, i together with near-infrared VIDEO data Y, J, H, Ks. The mean redshift of the shear catalogue is 0.87, considering the shear weight. The effective galaxy number density is 16.35 gal arcmin-2, which is nearly twice the one of KiDS. The performance of LensFit on such a deep data set was calibrated using VOICE-like mock image simulations. Furthermore, we have analysed the reliability of the shear catalogue by calculating the star-galaxy crosscorrelations, the tomographic shear correlations of two redshift bins and the contaminations of the blended galaxies. As a further sanity check, we have constrained cosmological parameters by exploring the parameter space with Population Monte Carlo sampling. For a flat Λ cold dark matter model, we have obtained Σ8 = σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.68+0.11 -0.15. © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.