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NIKA2

The New Instrument of Kids Arrays (NIKA2) is the next generation continuum instrument to be placed at the 30m telescope of IRAM, at Pico Veleta (Spain). The instrument is based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDS). The baseline detector focal plane units consist of 1000 detectors at 2 mm and 4000 detectors at 1.25 mm. The instrument will provide the measurement of the linear polarization at 1.25 mm.

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NIKA2

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Overview

The main characteristics of the latest configuration (2015.AUG.05) are summarized on the following table.

Band	Number of KIDs	Wavelength	Bandwidth	NEFD	HPBW	FoV
NIKA 2 mm	1000	2.0 mm	xxx GHz	10 mJy*s^1/2	18.5"	6.5'
NIKA 1 mm	2x2000	1.2 mm	xxx GHz	15 mJy*s^1/2	11.0"	6.5'

Call for proposals

Coming soon:

Reports and Publications

Reports:
- Summary of the 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon).
Technical papers:
- Catalano, A., Goupy, J., Le Sueur, H., et al, 2015, A&A submitted
- Monfardini, A., Adam, R., Adane, A., et al, 2014, JLTP, Vol. 176, Issue 5-6, pp. 787-795
- Bourrion, O., Vescovi, C., Catalano, A. et al, 2013, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 8, Issue 12, article id. C12006
- Bourrion, O., Vescovi, C., Bouly J.-L. et al, 2012, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 7, Issue 07, pp. 7014
- Bourrion, O., Bideaud, A., Benoit, A., et al, 2011, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 6, Issue 06, pp. 6012
Astronomical papers:
- Adam, A., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F., et al, 2015, A&A, 576, A12
- Catalano, A., Ponthieu, N., Calvo M., et al, 2014, A&A, 569, A9
- Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F, et al, 2014, A&A in press
- Calvo, M., Roesh, M., Désert, F.-X., et al, 2013, A&A, 551, L12
- Monfardini, A., Benoit, A., Bideaud, A., et al, 2011, ApJs, 194, 24
- Monfardini, A., Swenson, L. J., Bideaud, A., et al, 2010, AAp, 521, A29

Support teams

Overall coordinator:
- Samuel Leclercq (IRAM/Grenoble, <leclercq@iram.fr>)
NIKA team:
- Alain Benoit <alain.benoit@grenoble.cnrs.fr> (PI, IN)
- Alessandro Monfardini <monfardini@grenoble.cnrs.fr> (co-PI, IN)
- François-Xavier Désert <francois-xavier.desert@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr> (IPAG)
- Martino Calvo <martino.calvo@grenoble.cnrs.fr> (IN)
- Antonio D'Addabbo <antonio.d-addabbo@grenoble.cnrs.fr> (IN)
- Nicolas Ponthieu (IPAG)
- Juan Macias-Perez <macias@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
- Andrea Catalano <catalano@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
- Remi Adam <adam@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
IRAM/Granada support team:
- Carsten Kramer (Station Manager, <kramer@iram.es>)
- Israel Hermelo (30m Continuum Pool Manager, <hermelo@iram.es>)
- Nicolas Billot (30m Scheduler, <billot@iram.es>)
- Claudia Marka (30m Heterodyne Pool Manager, <marka@iram.es>)
- Albrecht Sievers (<sievers@iram.es>)

How-to's

Pool Preparation provides information on the observing modes offered for the continuum cameras as well as examples of the scripts that you need to prepare to observe your project.
Observing Session provides an example of a typical session with the continuum cameras at the 30m telescope.
Pointing sources and calibrators provides a list of pointing sources and calibrators for the IRAM 30m continuum cameras.
For observers: Check the staus of NIKA during the observations.
For Experts: Alignment and pointing sesion (in prep.) provides a step-by-step procedure to implement a new pointing model with NIKA
Data Reduction Quick look analysis and Offline processing products.
Observe GRBs

Open runs

1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon)

For information about the accepted projects and the observers at the 30m please go to:

1st NIKA2 pool organization.

The progress of the pool can be followed via:

Both databases are synchronized and can be used to write/read the logsheet.

Technical runs

Commissioning (October 2015)

Go to the NIKA2 commissioning wiki

Installation (September 2015)

Go to the NIKA2 installation wiki

Author: Israel Hermelo (IRAM 30m continuum pool manager)

email: hermelo@iram.es

Created: 2015.AUG.05

This page is maintained by IH, CK, SL and the NIKA team

Last update: 2015.AUG.05

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-The main characteristics of the latest configuration (05/AUG/2015) are summarized on the following table.
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+ * [[http://ipag.osug.fr/nika2/Welcome.html | NIKA2 official website ]]
 * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/Nika2Wiki | Private wiki]].
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- * Number of KIDs = number of KIDs which resonance is probed with a tone generated by the electronics (in parenthesis = conservative number of KIDs for which no problem has been found in the data). Physically there's 224 KIDs on the 1mm array and 132 KIDs on the 2mm array.
 * NEFD = Noise equivalent flux density outside of the atmosphere = sensitivity.
 * HPBW = Half power beam width = angular resolution.
 * FoV = effective Field-of-View calculated from area covered by all pixels.
 * NIKA is a prototype used to test the technologies to be used in the bigger 6.5' FOV [[http://ipag.osug.fr/nika2/Welcome.html | NIKA2 ]] instrument currently in development phase ([[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/Nika2Wiki | private Wiki here]]).
 * Go to the NIKA [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA/WishList | wish list]].
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-NIKA is offered for the first time to the community the winter semester 2013/14:
+Coming soon:
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-   * [[attachment:1stNIKApool.pdf  | Summary of the 1st NIKA pool (February 2014)]].
   * [[ CoolingPTcryostatNIKA | Procedure for cooling down the PT NIKA cryostat]] -- for IRAM staff 
 * Refereed papers:
   * '''Performance and calibration of the NIKA camera at the IRAM 30 m telescope''' ([[http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0260 | Catalano et al. 2014, arXiv ]])
   * '''First observation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with Kinetic Inductance Detectors''' ([[ http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6237 | Adam et al. 2013, arXiv]])
   * '''Improved mm-wave photometry for kinetic inductance detectors''' ([[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...551L..12C | Calvo et al. 2013, A&A]])
   * '''NIKEL: Electronics and data acquisition for kilopixels kinetic inductance camera''' ([[http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1415 | O. Bourrion et al. 2012, arXiv]])
   * '''A Dual-band Millimeter-wave Kinetic Inductance Camera for the IRAM 30 m Telescope''' ([[http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2011ApJS..194...24M | Monfardini et al. 2011, ApJS]])
   * '''NIKA: A millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera''' ([[http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2010A%26A...521A..29M |Monfardini et al. 2010, A&A]])
+   * [[attachment:1stNIKA2pool.pdf  | Summary of the 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon)]].

 * Technical papers:

   * Catalano, A., Goupy, J., Le Sueur, H., et al, 2015, A&A submitted
   * Monfardini, A., Adam, R., Adane, A., et al, 2014, JLTP, Vol. 176, Issue 5-6, pp. 787-795
   * Bourrion, O., Vescovi, C., Catalano, A. et al, 2013, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 8, Issue 12, article id. C12006
   * Bourrion, O., Vescovi, C., Bouly J.-L. et al, 2012, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 7, Issue 07, pp. 7014
   * Bourrion, O., Bideaud, A., Benoit, A., et al, 2011, Journ. of Instr., Vol. 6, Issue 06, pp. 6012

 * Astronomical papers:

   * Adam, A., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F., et al, 2015, A&A, 576, A12
   * Catalano, A., Ponthieu, N., Calvo M., et al, 2014, A&A, 569, A9
   * Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F, et al, 2014, A&A in press
   * Calvo, M., Roesh, M., Désert, F.-X., et al, 2013, A&A, 551, L12
   * Monfardini, A., Benoit, A., Bideaud, A., et al, 2011, ApJs, 194, 24
   * Monfardini, A., Swenson, L. J., Bideaud, A., et al, 2010, AAp, 521, A29
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-  * Robert Zylka 
  * Walter Brunswig
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- * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]] {*}

## * [[attachment:observer_notice_v2.pdf | NIKA data reduction cookbook (N. Ponthieu 2014)]].
+ * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]]
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-=== 3rd NIKA pool (Jan-Feb 2015) ===

The 3rd NIKA open pool will take place from the January 27th to February 10th.
+=== 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon) ===
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- * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolOrganization/3rdNIKApool | 3rd NIKA pool organization.]]
+ * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Pool1st | 1st NIKA2 pool organization.]]
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-=== 2nd NIKA pool (November 2014) ===

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolOrganization/2ndNIKApool | 2nd NIKA pool organization.]]
 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/NikaRun10 | Internal NIKA team page for organisation]]


=== 1st NIKA pool (February 2014) ===

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolOrganization/1stNIKApool | 1st NIKA pool organization]] 
 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/PoolW13  | IRAM 30m pool observers for the Winter 2013 semester]]
 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/NikaRun8 | Internal NIKA team page for organisation]]

=== Available data products ===

||   '''Run'''    ||  '''Date'''  || '''v0''' || '''v1''' || '''v2''' ||
|| 1st NIKA pool  ||   Feb 2014   ||   (./)   ||   (./)   ||   {X}    ||
|| 2nd NIKA pool  ||   Nov 2014   ||   (./)   ||   {X}    ||   {X}    ||
|| 3rd NIKA pool  ||   Jan 2015   ||   (./)   ||   {X}    ||   {X}    ||

To retrive the data please use the following command:

{{{
scp  xxx-yy@enter.iram.es:~/observationData/nika/v?.tar.gz  /path/in/your/computer 
}}}

where '''xxx-yy''' is your project number and '''v?''' is the version of the data to retrieve (options are v0, v1, and v2).
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- * '''12th test run - Polarisation''' (February 2015)
  * [[NikaRun12 | Go to the 12th run Wiki page]]
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- * '''9th test run''' (October 2014)
  * [[NikaRun9 | Go to the 9th run Wiki page]]
+=== Commissioning (October 2015) ===
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- * '''May 2014 Dry run'''
  * Two slots of 4 hours scheduled for the NIKA dry run: Wed 7th May 2014 from 11:00 to 15:00 (LT), Mon 12th May 2014 from 12:00 to 16:00 (LT)
  * See the [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolOrganization/DryRunNIKA | NIKA dry run]] organization wiki.
+[[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Commissioning | Go to the NIKA2 commissioning wiki]]
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- * '''7th test run''' (January 2014)
  * [[NikaRun7 | Go to the 7th run Wiki page]]
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- * '''6th test run''' (June 2013)
  * [[NikaRun6|Go to the 6th run Wiki page]]
+[[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Installation | Go to the NIKA2 installation wiki]]
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- * '''5th test run''' (November 2012)
  * [[NikaRun5|Go to the 5th run Wiki page]]
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- * '''4th test run''' (June 2012, final position, final cryostat)
  * [[NikaRun4|Go to the 4th run Wiki page]]

 * '''3rd test run''' (October 2011, cryogen free 1^st^ cold stage cryostat)
  * [[NikaRun3|Go to the 3rd run Wiki page]]

 * '''2nd test run''' (October 2010, dual band cryostat)
  * [[NikaRun2|Go to the 2nd run Wiki page]]

 * '''1st test run''' (October 2009, 1 band cryostat on MAMBO bench, liquid He 1^st^ cold stage)
  * [[NikaRun1|Go to the 1st run Wiki page]]
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-Created: 2013.Dec.16
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-Last update: 2014.Dec.17
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