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Euclid Collaboration; Vinciguerra, S.; Bouchè, F.; Martinet, N.; Castiblanco, L.; Uhlemann, C.; Pires, S.; Harnois-Déraps, J.; Giocoli, C.; Baldi, M.; Cardone, V. F.; Vadalà, A.; Dagoneau, N.; Linke, L.; Sellentin, E.; Taylor, P. L.; Broxterman, J. C.; Heydenreich, S.; Tinnaneri Sreekanth, V.; Porqueres, N.; Porth, L.; Gatti, M.; Grandón, D.; Barthelemy, A.; Bernardeau, F.; Tersenov, A.; Hoekstra, H.; Starck, J.-L.; Cheng, S.; Burger, P. A.; Tereno, I.; Scaramella, R.; Altieri, B.; Andreon, S.; Auricchio, N.; Baccigalupi, C.; Bardelli, S.; Biviano, A.; Branchini, E.; Brescia, M.; Camera, S.; Cañas-Herrera, G.; Capobianco, V.; Carbone, C.; Carretero, J.; Castellano, M.; Castignani, G.; Cavuoti, S.; Chambers, K. C.; Cimatti, A.; Colodro-Conde, C.; Congedo, G.; Conversi, L.; Copin, Y.; Courbin, F.; Courtois, H. M.; Cropper, M.; Da Silva, A.; Degaudenzi, H.; de la Torre, S.; De Lucia, G.; Dole, H.; Dubath, F.; Dupac, X.; Dusini, S.; Escoffier, S.; Farina, M.; Farinelli, R.; Farrens, S.; Faustini, F.; Ferriol, S.; Finelli, F.; Frailis, M.; Franceschi, E.; Fumana, M.; Galeotta, S.; George, K.; Gillis, B.; Gracia-Carpio, J.; Grazian, A.; Grupp, F.; Haugan, S. V. H.; Holmes, W.; Hormuth, F.; Hornstrup, A.; Hudelot, P.; Jahnke, K.; Jhabvala, M.; Joachimi, B.; Keihänen, E.; Kermiche, S.; Kiessling, A.; Kilbinger, M.; Kubik, B.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Le Brun, A. M. C.; Ligori, S.; Lilje, P. B.; Lindholm, V. et al.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
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2026
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This is the second paper in the HOWLS (higher-order weak lensing statistics) series exploring the usage of non-Gaussian statistics for cosmology inference within Euclid. With respect to our first paper, we develop a full tomographic analysis based on realistic photometric redshifts that allows us to derive Fisher forecasts in the (σ8, w0) plane for a Euclid-like data release 1 (DR1) setup. We find that the five higher-order statistics (HOS) that satisfy the Gaussian likelihood assumption of the Fisher formalism (one-point probability distribution function, ℓ1-norm, peak counts, Minkowski functionals, and Betti numbers) each outperform the shear two-point correlation functions by a factor of 2.5 on the w0 forecasts, with only marginal improvement when used in combination with two-point estimators, suggesting that every HOS is able to retrieve both the non-Gaussian and Gaussian information of the matter density field. The similar performance of the different estimators is explained by a homogeneous use of multi-scale and tomographic information, optimized to lower computational costs. These results hold for the three mass mapping techniques of the Euclid pipeline, aperture mass, Kaiser─Squires, and Kaiser─Squires plus, and they are unaffected by the application of realistic star masks. Finally, we explored the use of HOS with the Bernardeau─Nishimichi─Taruya (BNT) nulling scheme approach, finding promising results toward applying physical scale cuts to HOS.