The foci of NIKA1mm and NIKA2mm show consistently a significant difference of ~0.3mm (assuming of course, the NIKA foci performed this way are reliable !).

Three examples are shown below: two obtained at best weather conditions on June 3rd and one on June 4th (much worse conditions).

1mm focus scan 149 June 3 2012 2mm focus scan 149 June 3 2012 1mm focus scan 167 June 3 2012 2mm focus scan 167 June 3 2012 1mm focus scan 204 June 4 2012 2mm focus scan 204 June 4 2012

The focus fit is given in each panel with "SFCZ=" (bottom left figure); the quality of the data is demonstrated by the error bars and the agreement of the signal in the two measurements at the same focus value.

As the 1mm and 2mm arrays are not perfectly aligned, a focus difference should be in principle expected due to beam broadening in the not focused data. The focus difference depends on the (azim,elev) offset of the pixels used for focusing (thus on alignment of the two arrays and elevation), the HPBWs, stability of the instrument, ...

The data obtained during run #4 do not allow any deeper analysis, i.e. the reliability of the foci and the focus difference have to be checked during the coming run.

Another open question: change of the focus across the FoV.