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| = NIKA2 = | = NIKA2 Homepage = |
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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. | NIKA2, the second generation Neel-IRAM-KID-Array, is a dual band camera operating simultaneously at 150 and 260 GHz. The instrument is based on large arrays of superconducting Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) operated at temperatures of 100mK. NIKA2 is built by an international consortium, led by the Institute Neel (Grenoble France). Successful installation took place in early October 2015. NIKA2's field of view has a 6.5arcmin diameter, with angular resolutions of 12 and 18 arcsec at 1 and 2 mm wavelengths respectively. NIKA2 is designed as a facility instrument which will remain at its present position for at least a decade. 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: | Some prelimiary characteristics of NIKA-2: |
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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. |
## == Call for proposals == ## NIKA2 is not offered to the community yet. ## |
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| == Publications == | == Technical Documentation == |
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| * Technical papers: | * [[attachment:calvo-27oct2015-nika2-camadia.pdf | NIKA2 Data Acquisition, Camadia, M.Calvo, 27-Oct-2015 ]] |
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| * 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 |
* Wiki-pages: |
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| * Astronomical papers: | * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/OffProcNika2Run1Beam | Discussion on beams ]] |
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| * 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 |
* [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Spectral%20bands | Spectral bands ]] |
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| ---- | * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NetworkAccess | Remote network access to NIKA-2 ]] |
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| == Support teams == | * [[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. |
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| * Overall coordinator: * '''Samuel Leclercq''' (IRAM/Grenoble, <leclercq@iram.fr>) |
* [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObservingSession | Observing Session]] provides an example of a typical session with NIKA2 at the 30m telescope. |
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| * 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>) ---- == How-to's == * [[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/Calibrators | Pointing sources and calibrators ]] provides a list of pointing sources and calibrators. |
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| * '''1st test run''' (October 2015, Installation, 1st cool down at the 30m, start commissioning procedures) | * '''1^st^ test run of NIKA2''' (29-October-2015 till 10-November-2015: Installation, cool down at the 30m, testing/debugging/developing) [= Run 13 of a NIKA instrument] |
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| * '''2^nd^ test run of NIKA2''' (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) [= Run 14 of a NIKA instrument] * [[Nika2Run2|Go to the 2nd run Wiki page]] |
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| * '''3^rd^ test run of NIKA2''' (12-January-2016 till 01-February-2016: Implementation of new NIKEL boards; the 20 data lines of NIKA2 are foreseen to be plugged simultaneously. With the 3 arrays fully read, continue and redo tests started with runs 1 & 2, in particular '''Beam maps''' and NEFD. [= Run 15 of a NIKA instrument] * [[Nika2Run3|Go to the 3rd run Wiki page]] ---- == Publications == * Technical papers: * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02774|Calvo, Benoit, et al. 2015, Proc. of the 16th Low Temperature Detectors workshop. To be published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics]] 'The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy' * 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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| == Support teams == | |
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| * 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>) ------- |
NIKA2 Homepage
NIKA2, the second generation Neel-IRAM-KID-Array, is a dual band camera operating simultaneously at 150 and 260 GHz. The instrument is based on large arrays of superconducting Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) operated at temperatures of 100mK. NIKA2 is built by an international consortium, led by the Institute Neel (Grenoble France). Successful installation took place in early October 2015. NIKA2's field of view has a 6.5arcmin diameter, with angular resolutions of 12 and 18 arcsec at 1 and 2 mm wavelengths respectively. NIKA2 is designed as a facility instrument which will remain at its present position for at least a decade. The instrument will allow to measure linear polarizations at 1.15 mm.
Overview
Some 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*s1/2 |
TBC |
6.5' |
NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz |
2x1140 |
1.15 mm |
240-280 GHz |
TBC mJy*s1/2 |
TBC |
6.5' |
- Web information in France:
Technical Documentation
- Wiki-pages:
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 of NIKA2 (29-October-2015 till 10-November-2015: Installation, cool down at the 30m, testing/debugging/developing) [= Run 13 of a NIKA instrument]
2nd test run of NIKA2 (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) [= Run 14 of a NIKA instrument]
3rd test run of NIKA2 (12-January-2016 till 01-February-2016: Implementation of new NIKEL boards; the 20 data lines of NIKA2 are foreseen to be plugged simultaneously. With the 3 arrays fully read, continue and redo tests started with runs 1 & 2, in particular Beam maps and NEFD. [= Run 15 of a NIKA instrument]
Publications
- Technical papers:
Calvo, Benoit, et al. 2015, Proc. of the 16th Low Temperature Detectors workshop. To be published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics 'The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy'
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
Last update: 2015.OCT.19