List of Astronomical Target for Nika v2 Oct 2010 run

FXD, second expanded version

Please feel free to add your own preference. Send me your comments.

1. Planets

• Mars (4.06*4.04 arcsecond diameter, ), Venus for photometric calibration (primary calibrators)

Typical coordinates MARS RA 15:22:07.4042 Dec -18:57:44.888

2. Usual bright quasars

• for image quality and linearity checks

3. List of bright ultracompact HII regions

• for photometric calibration checks (secondary calibrators)

4. Extended emission from

• Herschel new sources
• Archeops bright cores
• bright galaxies M87 (again), M82, others
• less bright NGC1068 22mJy at 1.3mm rising to 36 at 3mm

• --> Need fast speed scanning to reduce 1/f residual noise

5. Faint quasars in the 10 mJy range at 1mm (use Omont's list):

• test detectability in faint source mode: e.g.
• J075618.14+410408.6 z= 5.09 20.15 1.3 mm 5.5 ± 0.5 Wang et al 2008, ApJ, 135, 1201
• J092721.82+200123.7 z= 5.77 19.87g 1.3 mm 5.0 ± 0.8 mJy 3.5 mm: 0.12 ± 0.03 mJy
• IRAS F10214+4724 = SDSS J102434.56+470909.5 1.3mm: 10 mJy
• H1413+517 14h15m46.240s +11d29m43.40s z=2.558 1.3mm 18+-2 mJy

6 Cluster of galaxies: RXJ1347-1145, A665, A2163 and CL0016+16

• If sensitivity allows demonstrate the ability to map clusters (one of the main scientific goals of this camera).

Here is the detailed expanded formatted list Source_list_fmt2010v1.txt