Luminous red galaxies in the Kilo Degree Survey: selection with
  broad-band photometry and weak lensing measurements
  We use the overlap between multiband photometry of the Kilo-Degree Survey
(KiDS) and spectroscopic data based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) to infer the colour-magnitude relation of
red-sequence galaxies. We then use this inferred relation to select luminous
red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range of $0.1<z<0.7$ over the entire KiDS
Data Release 3 footprint. We construct two samples of galaxies with different
constant comoving densities and different luminosity thresholds. The selected
red galaxies have photometric redshifts with typical photo-z errors of
$\sigma_z \sim 0.014 (1+z)$ that are nearly uniform with respect to
observational systematics. This makes them an ideal set of galaxies for lensing
and clustering studies. As an example, we use the KiDS-450 cosmic shear
catalogue to measure the mean tangential shear signal around the selected LRGs.
We detect a significant weak lensing signal for lenses out to $z \sim 0.7$.
