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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 (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. | NIKA2, the second generation New-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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'''[[ http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/FrontPage | Go to the Front Page ]]''' | NIKA2 in the web: * [[http://ipag.osug.fr/nika2/Welcome.html | NIKA2 website at IPAG ]] * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/Nika2Wiki | NIKA2-internal wiki at IRAM-FR ]]. |
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The main characteristics of the latest configuration (2015.AUG.05) are summarized on the following table. | Some prelimiary characteristics of NIKA-2: |
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|| '''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' || |
|| '''Band''' || '''Number of KIDs''' || '''Wavelength''' || '''Bandwidth ''' || '''NEFD''' || '''HPBW''' || '''FoV''' || || NIKA2 2 mm/150 GHz || 616 || 2.00 mm || 125-170 GHz || 20 mJy*s^1/2^ || 18" || 6.5' || || NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz || 2x1140 || 1.15 mm || 240-280 GHz || 30 mJy*s^1/2^ || 12" || 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]]. |
Comments: A new 2mm array with 616 pixels was installed mid September 2016. The previously installed array had 1020 pixels. Further changes in September 2016 are a new dichroic frequency splitter, new lenses and a new cryostat window. In addition, several of the 20 readout electronics boards have been replaced with the last version. NIKA2 now has a homogeneous set of boards, plus several spare boards. Commissioning will start on October, 4th and will continue into the winter semester, when NIKA2 shall be opened to the community. |
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---- | == Call for proposals and time estimator == |
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== Call for proposals == | In the upcoming winter semester 2016, running from December 2016 to May 2017, a limited amount of time will be available for NIKA2 science projects. See the [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-169-7-57-169-0-0.html | call for proposals ]]. No polarization measurement is offered for the time being. On the following page, we give information on how to estimate total observing times: |
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Coming soon: * [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-169-7-57-169-0-0.html | Call for observing proposals with the 30m]] |
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== Reports and Publications == * Reports: |
== Publications == |
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* [[attachment:1stNIKA2pool.pdf | Summary of the 1st NIKA2 pool (coming soon)]]. | * Instrument/detectors papers: |
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* 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 |
* Catalano et al. 2016, '''The NIKA2 commissioning campaign: performance and first results''', [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08628|arxiv]] * Calvo et al. 2016, '''The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy''', [[http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1601.02774|arxiv]] * Goupy et al. 2016, '''Microfabrication technology for large LEKID arrays : from NIKA2 to future applications''', [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03969|arxiv]] * Monfardini et al. 2014, '''Latest NIKA Results and the NIKA-2 Project''', JLTP 176, 787, [[http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1310.1230|arxiv]] * Catalano et al. 2014, '''Performance and calibration of the NIKA camera at the IRAM 30 m telescope''', A&A 569, A9, [[http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.0260|arxiv]] * Calvo et al. 2013, '''Improved mm-wave photometry for kinetic inductance detectors''', A&A, 551, L12 [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...551L..12C|ADS]] * Bourrion et al. 2012, '''NIKEL: Electronics and data acquisition for kilopixels kinetic inductance camera''', Journal of Instrumentation, 7, 07, pp. 7014. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1415|arXiv]] * Monfardini et al. 2011, '''A Dual-band Millimeter-wave Kinetic Inductance Camera for the IRAM 30 m Telescope''', ApJS, 194, 2, article id. 24. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0870|arXiv]] * [[http://www.iram.fr/wiki/nika2/index.php/Technical_NIKA_papers_to_be_cited|Internal list of technical papers]] |
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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 |
* Ruppin, F., Adam, R., Comis, B., et al. 2016, '''Non parametric deprojection of NIKA SZ observations: pressure distribution in the Planck-discovered cluster PSZ1 G045.85+57.71''', A&A, in press [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1607.07679|ADS]] * Adam, R., Bartalucci, I., Pratt, G. W., et al. 2016, '''Mapping the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect toward MACS J0717.5+3745 with NIKA''', A&A, in press [[http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2016arXiv160607721A|ADS]] * Adam, R., Comis, B., Bartalucci, I., et al. 2016, '''High angular resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of MACS J1423.8+2404 with NIKA: Multiwavelength analysis''', A&A, 586, 122 [[http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2016A%26A...586A.122A|ADS]] * Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F., et al, 2015, '''Pressure distribution of the high-redshift cluster of galaxies CL J1226.9+3332 with NIKA''', A&A, 576, A12 [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...576A..12A|ADS]] * Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F, et al, 2014, '''First observation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with kinetic inductance detectors''', A&A, 569, 66 [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...569A..66A|ADS]] * Ph.D. thesis: * ''Rémi Adam (2012-2015) - Advisors: J.F. Macías-Pérez and F.X. Désert'' ([[https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01303736 | Observation des amas de galaxies par effet Sunyaev-Zel'dovich et de la polarisation du fond diffus cosmologique : de Planck à NIKA (in French)]]) * [[http://ipag.osug.fr/nika2/Publications.html|NIKA2 publications list maintained at IPAG]] |
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== Technical Documentation == * [[attachment:calvo-feb2016-nika2-camadia.pdf | NIKA2 Data Acquisition, Camadia, M.Calvo, Feb-2016 ]] * [[attachment:calvo-docTuning_feb2016.pdf | NIKA2 tuning procedure and data flagging description, M.Calvo, Feb-2016 ]] * 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/TimeEstimatorScript|Time Estimator (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)]] ## * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]] ## ---- ## ## == Open runs == ## ## === 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]] ## ## * [[https://tapas.iram.es/tapas/ | TAPAS]] ## ## Both databases are synchronized and can be used to write/read the logsheet. '''[[ http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Main | Go to the top ]]''' ---- == Technical runs to commission NIKA2 == * '''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] * [[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]] * '''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]] * '''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]] * '''4^th^ test run of NIKA2''': 1-March-2016 till 15-March-2016. Continue tests started with previous runs, in particular investigate deeper beam patterns (XY focus, beam maps), synchronization, array 1 & 3 performances vs electronic boards, NEFD, mapping strategies. [= Run 16 of a NIKA instrument] * [[Nika2Run4|Go to the 4th run Wiki page]] * '''Dark run''': 4-May-2016. Test sensitivity of NIKA2 to external electromagnetic perturbations, with the entrance window of the cryostat closed. [= Run 17 of a NIKA instrument] * '''5^th^ test run of NIKA2''': 16-September-2016 till 11-October-2016. Upgrade NIKA2 with new dichroic, new corrugated lenses and window, new 2mm array, new NIKEL boards (get the 20 lines with homogeneous electronics, v3); redo better the tests started with previous runs (mostly beam maps in best weather conditions, but also various types of scan to investigate deeper beams and noise, synchronization, NEFD, skydips, mapping strategies, possibly polarization. [= Run 18 of a NIKA instrument] * [[Nika2Run5|Go to the 5th run Wiki page]] * '''6^th^ test run of NIKA2''': 25-October-2016 till 1-November-2016. Continue NIKA2 commissioning. [= Run 19 of a NIKA instrument] * [[Nika2Run6|Go to the 6th run Wiki page]] ----- |
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* NIKA team: | * NIKA2 team: |
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* '''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) |
* '''Alessandro Monfardini''' <monfardini@neel.cnrs.fr> (co-PI, IN) * François-Xavier Désert <francois-xavier.desert@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (IPAG) * Martino Calvo <martino.calvo@neel.cnrs.fr> (IN) * Johannes Goupy <johannes.goupy@neel.cnrs.fr> (IN) * Nicolas Ponthieu <nicolas.ponthieu@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (IPAG) |
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* Remi Adam <adam@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC) | * Laurence Perotto <laurence.perotto@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC) |
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* 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>) |
* IRAM/Granada NIKA2 support team: * Carsten Kramer (Station Manager and Scheduler, <kramer@iram.es>) * Pablo Garcia (time estimator, continuum Pool Manager, <pgarcia@iram.es>) * Albrecht Sievers (IMBfits, <sievers@iram.es>) * Hans Ungerechts (NCS/pako, <ungerechts@iram.es>) * Pablo Mellado (Computers/Network, <mellado@iram.es>) |
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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. * For observers: [[attachment:NIKA_status.pdf | Check the staus of NIKA during the observations]]. * For Experts: [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA/PointingSession | Alignment and pointing sesion ]] (in prep.) provides a step-by-step procedure to implement a new pointing model with NIKA * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA/DataReduction | Data Reduction]] Quick look analysis and Offline processing products. * [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/ObserveGRBs | Observe GRBs]] ---- == Open runs == === 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]] * [[https://tapas.iram.es/tapas/ | TAPAS]] Both databases are synchronized and can be used to write/read the logsheet. ---- == Technical runs == === Commissioning (October 2015) === [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Commissioning | Go to the NIKA2 commissioning wiki]] === Installation (September 2015) === [[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/Continuum/NIKA2/Installation | 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 |
------- Author: Israel Hermelo. Created: 5-Aug-2015. This page is maintained by PG, CK, SL and the NIKA team. Last update: 29-Jul-2016 |
NIKA2 Homepage
NIKA2, the second generation New-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.
Contents
NIKA2 in the web:
Overview
Some prelimiary characteristics of NIKA-2:
Band |
Number of KIDs |
Wavelength |
Bandwidth |
NEFD |
HPBW |
FoV |
NIKA2 2 mm/150 GHz |
616 |
2.00 mm |
125-170 GHz |
20 mJy*s1/2 |
18" |
6.5' |
NIKA2 1 mm/260 GHz |
2x1140 |
1.15 mm |
240-280 GHz |
30 mJy*s1/2 |
12" |
6.5' |
Comments: A new 2mm array with 616 pixels was installed mid September 2016. The previously installed array had 1020 pixels. Further changes in September 2016 are a new dichroic frequency splitter, new lenses and a new cryostat window. In addition, several of the 20 readout electronics boards have been replaced with the last version. NIKA2 now has a homogeneous set of boards, plus several spare boards. Commissioning will start on October, 4th and will continue into the winter semester, when NIKA2 shall be opened to the community.
Call for proposals and time estimator
In the upcoming winter semester 2016, running from December 2016 to May 2017, a limited amount of time will be available for NIKA2 science projects. See the call for proposals. No polarization measurement is offered for the time being. On the following page, we give information on how to estimate total observing times:
Publications
- Instrument/detectors papers:
Catalano et al. 2016, The NIKA2 commissioning campaign: performance and first results, arxiv
Calvo et al. 2016, The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy, arxiv
Goupy et al. 2016, Microfabrication technology for large LEKID arrays : from NIKA2 to future applications, arxiv
Monfardini et al. 2014, Latest NIKA Results and the NIKA-2 Project, JLTP 176, 787, arxiv
Catalano et al. 2014, Performance and calibration of the NIKA camera at the IRAM 30 m telescope, A&A 569, A9, arxiv
Calvo et al. 2013, Improved mm-wave photometry for kinetic inductance detectors, A&A, 551, L12 ADS
Bourrion et al. 2012, NIKEL: Electronics and data acquisition for kilopixels kinetic inductance camera, Journal of Instrumentation, 7, 07, pp. 7014. arXiv
Monfardini et al. 2011, A Dual-band Millimeter-wave Kinetic Inductance Camera for the IRAM 30 m Telescope, ApJS, 194, 2, article id. 24. arXiv
- Astronomical papers:
Ruppin, F., Adam, R., Comis, B., et al. 2016, Non parametric deprojection of NIKA SZ observations: pressure distribution in the Planck-discovered cluster PSZ1 G045.85+57.71, A&A, in press ADS
Adam, R., Bartalucci, I., Pratt, G. W., et al. 2016, Mapping the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect toward MACS J0717.5+3745 with NIKA, A&A, in press ADS
Adam, R., Comis, B., Bartalucci, I., et al. 2016, High angular resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of MACS J1423.8+2404 with NIKA: Multiwavelength analysis, A&A, 586, 122 ADS
Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F., et al, 2015, Pressure distribution of the high-redshift cluster of galaxies CL J1226.9+3332 with NIKA, A&A, 576, A12 ADS
Adam, R., Comis, B., Macias-Perez, J.-F, et al, 2014, First observation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with kinetic inductance detectors, A&A, 569, 66 ADS
- Ph.D. thesis:
Rémi Adam (2012-2015) - Advisors: J.F. Macías-Pérez and F.X. Désert (Observation des amas de galaxies par effet Sunyaev-Zel'dovich et de la polarisation du fond diffus cosmologique : de Planck à NIKA (in French))
Technical Documentation
NIKA2 tuning procedure and data flagging description, M.Calvo, Feb-2016
- 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 to commission NIKA2
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]
4th test run of NIKA2: 1-March-2016 till 15-March-2016. Continue tests started with previous runs, in particular investigate deeper beam patterns (XY focus, beam maps), synchronization, array 1 & 3 performances vs electronic boards, NEFD, mapping strategies. [= Run 16 of a NIKA instrument]
Dark run: 4-May-2016. Test sensitivity of NIKA2 to external electromagnetic perturbations, with the entrance window of the cryostat closed. [= Run 17 of a NIKA instrument]
5th test run of NIKA2: 16-September-2016 till 11-October-2016. Upgrade NIKA2 with new dichroic, new corrugated lenses and window, new 2mm array, new NIKEL boards (get the 20 lines with homogeneous electronics, v3); redo better the tests started with previous runs (mostly beam maps in best weather conditions, but also various types of scan to investigate deeper beams and noise, synchronization, NEFD, skydips, mapping strategies, possibly polarization. [= Run 18 of a NIKA instrument]
6th test run of NIKA2: 25-October-2016 till 1-November-2016. Continue NIKA2 commissioning. [= Run 19 of a NIKA instrument]
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@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (IPAG)
Martino Calvo <martino.calvo@neel.cnrs.fr> (IN)
Johannes Goupy <johannes.goupy@neel.cnrs.fr> (IN)
Nicolas Ponthieu <nicolas.ponthieu@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (IPAG)
Juan Macias-Perez <macias@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
Andrea Catalano <catalano@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
Laurence Perotto <laurence.perotto@lpsc.in2p3.fr> (LPSC)
- IRAM/Granada NIKA2 support team:
Carsten Kramer (Station Manager and Scheduler, <kramer@iram.es>)
Pablo Garcia (time estimator, continuum Pool Manager, <pgarcia@iram.es>)
Albrecht Sievers (IMBfits, <sievers@iram.es>)
Hans Ungerechts (NCS/pako, <ungerechts@iram.es>)
Pablo Mellado (Computers/Network, <mellado@iram.es>)
Author: Israel Hermelo. Created: 5-Aug-2015. This page is maintained by PG, CK, SL and the NIKA team. Last update: 29-Jul-2016