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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Overview

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

• NIKA2 website

• Private Wiki).

Call for proposals

NIKA2 will be offered for the first time to the community the summer semester 2016:

• Call for observing proposals with the 30m

• Guidelines to estimate observing times.

Reports and Publications

• Reports:

  • Summary of the 1st NIKA pool (February 2014).

  • 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 (Catalano et al. 2014, arXiv)

  • First observation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Adam et al. 2013, arXiv)

  • Improved mm-wave photometry for kinetic inductance detectors (Calvo et al. 2013, A&A)

  • NIKEL: Electronics and data acquisition for kilopixels kinetic inductance camera (O. Bourrion et al. 2012, arXiv)

  • A Dual-band Millimeter-wave Kinetic Inductance Camera for the IRAM 30 m Telescope (Monfardini et al. 2011, ApJS)

  • NIKA: A millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera (Monfardini et al. 2010, A&A)

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>)

  • Robert Zylka
  • Walter Brunswig

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 (NOV 2016?)

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:

• Pool data base

• TAPAS

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