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NIKA2 Homagepage

The New Instrument of Kids Arrays (NIKA2) is the next generation continuum instrument at the IRAM 30m telescope, at Pico Veleta (Spain). The instrument is based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID). The instrument will allow to measure linear polarizations at 1.15 mm.

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NIKA2 Homagepage

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Overview

Somre prelimiary characteristics of NIKA-2:

Band	Number of KIDs	Wavelength	Bandwidth	NEFD (goal, TBC)	HPBW	FoV
NIKA2 2 mm/150 GHz	1020	2.00 mm	125-170 GHz	TBC mJy*s^1/2	TBC	6.5'
NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz	2x1140	1.15 mm	240-280 GHz	TBC mJy*s^1/2	TBC	6.5'

Web information in France:
- NIKA2 website at IPAG
- IRAM-internal wiki at IRAM-FR.

Technical Documentation

NIKA2 Data Acquisition, Camadia, M.Calvo, 27-Oct-2015
Wiki-pages:
- Discussion on beams
- Spectral bands
- Remote network access to NIKA-2
- Pool Preparation provides information on the observing modes offered for NIKA2 and examples of the scripts that you must prepare to observe your project.
- Observing Session provides an example of a typical session with NIKA2 at the 30m telescope.
- Pointing sources and calibrators provides a list of pointing sources and calibrators.

Technical runs

1st test run (29-October-2015 till 10-November-2015: Installation, cool down at the 30m, testing/debugging/developing)
- Go to the 1st run Wiki page
- Private Wiki detailing the organization of the run and the instrument characterization plan
2nd test run (24-November-2015 till 02-December-2015: continue tests started during run 1, in particular Beam maps and NEFD with the 13 NIKEL boards assembled the last days of run 1)
- Go to the 2nd run Wiki page

Publications on NIKA-1

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>)
NIKA2 team:
- Alain Benoit <alain.benoit@grenoble.cnrs.fr> (PI, IN)
- Alessandro Monfardini <monfardini@neel.cnrs.fr> (co-PI, IN)
- François-Xavier Désert <francois-xavier.desert@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr> (IPAG)
- Martino Calvo <martino.calvo@neel.cnrs.fr> (IN)
- Johannes Goupy <johannes.goupy@neel.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>)

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

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-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 (KID). The baseline detector focal plane units consist of 1020 detectors at 2 mm and 2x1140 detectors at 1.15 mm. The instrument will provide the measurement of the linear polarization at 1.15 mm.
+The New Instrument of Kids Arrays (NIKA2) is the next generation continuum instrument at the IRAM 30m telescope, at Pico Veleta (Spain). The instrument is based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID). The instrument will allow to measure linear polarizations at 1.15 mm.
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-The main characteristics of the instrument installed the 29th September at Pico Veleta are:
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-|| NIKA2 2 mm/150 GHz   ||         1020         ||      2.00 mm     ||      125-170 GHz     || 10 mJy*s^1/2^   ||    18.5"   ||    6.5'   ||
|| NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz   ||        2x1140        ||      1.15 mm      ||      240-280 GHz     || 15 mJy*s^1/2^   ||    12.0"   ||    6.5'   ||
+|| NIKA2 2 mm/150 GHz   ||         1020         ||      2.00 mm     ||      125-170 GHz     || TBC mJy*s^1/2^   ||    TBC   ||    6.5'   ||
|| NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz   ||        2x1140        ||      1.15 mm      ||      240-280 GHz     || TBC mJy*s^1/2^   ||    TBC   ||    6.5'   ||
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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]].
+ * Web information in France:
   * [[http://ipag.osug.fr/nika2/Welcome.html | NIKA2 website at IPAG ]]
   * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/Nika2Wiki | IRAM-internal wiki at IRAM-FR ]].
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== Call for proposals ==

NIKA2 is not offered to the community yet. It is being commissioned during Oct 2015 until mid 2016.
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-== Publications ==
+== Technical Documentation ==

 * [[attachment:calvo-27oct2015-nika2-camadia.pdf | NIKA2 Data Acquisition, Camadia, M.Calvo, 27-Oct-2015 ]]

 * Wiki-pages:

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/OffProcNika2Run1Beam | Discussion on beams ]]

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Spectral%20bands | Spectral bands ]]

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NetworkAccess | Remote network access to NIKA-2 ]]

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolPreparation | Pool Preparation]] provides information on the observing modes offered for NIKA2 and examples of the scripts that you must prepare to observe your project.

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObservingSession | Observing Session]] provides an example of a typical session with NIKA2 at the 30m telescope.

   * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/Calibrators | Pointing sources and calibrators ]] provides a list of pointing sources and calibrators.

## * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]]

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## == Open runs ==
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## === 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon) ===
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## For information about the accepted projects and the observers at the 30m please go to:
##  * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Pool1st | 1st NIKA2 pool organization.]]
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## The progress of the pool can be followed via:
##
## * [[https://pools.iram.es | Pool data base]]
##  
## * [[https://tapas.iram.es/tapas/ | TAPAS]]
##
## Both databases are synchronized and can be used to write/read the logsheet.

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== Technical runs ==

 * '''1st test run''' (29-October-2015 till 10-November-2015: Installation, cool down at the 30m, testing/debugging/developing)
  * [[Nika2Run1|Go to the 1st run Wiki page]]
  * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/NIKA2_Run1_30m_CharacterizationPlan | Private Wiki detailing the organization of the run and the instrument characterization plan]]

 * '''2nd test run''' (24-November-2015 till 02-December-2015: continue tests started during run 1, in particular Beam maps and NEFD with the 13 NIKEL boards assembled the last days of run 1)
  * [[Nika2Run2|Go to the 2nd run Wiki page]]


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== How-to's ==

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/PoolPreparation | 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.

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObservingSession | Observing Session]] provides an example of a typical session with the continuum cameras at the 30m telescope.

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/Calibrators | Pointing sources and calibrators ]] provides a list of pointing sources and calibrators for the IRAM 30m continuum cameras.

 * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]]

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## == Open runs ==
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## === 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon) ===
##
## For information about the accepted projects and the observers at the 30m please go to:
##  * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Pool1st | 1st NIKA2 pool organization.]]
##
## The progress of the pool can be followed via:
##
## * [[https://pools.iram.es | Pool data base]]
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## * [[https://tapas.iram.es/tapas/ | TAPAS]]
##
## Both databases are synchronized and can be used to write/read the logsheet.

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== Technical runs ==

 * '''1st test run''' (October 2015, Installation, 1st cool down at the 30m, start commissioning procedures)
  * [[Nika2Run1|Go to the 1st run Wiki page]]
  * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/NIKA2_Run1_30m_CharacterizationPlan | Private Wiki detailing the organization of the run and the instrument characterization plan]]


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