NIKA Run#3 Summary of Off line processing Results
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Focal Plane Geometry and Beams
Both RZ (Mopsic) and NP (IDL, from This pdf) have found a distortion of the focal plane geometry well beyond the expected one.
The focal plane distortion affects the beams in a correlated fashion with the Focal Plane Geometry distortion. This points towards a general optical distortion common to both detectors (an optical element is misplaced in the optical train).
Glitches and Mars plateau
Cosmetics
rms of maps per scan per kid per beam averaged over 5 scans
Photometry
Evolution of the sky opacity during Run#3
Absolute photometry
Using pointing sources (mostly quasars), we can compare the absolute flux measured with NIKA run3 with an estimate (provided by Samuel Leclercq) obtained using PdB measurements (error bars for PdB is a flat 10% assumption). The assumption for the NIKA photometry is that the Uranus flux is a blacbody with a temperature of and the opacity (as shown above) is correct. The summary of the photometry is given here as a spreadsheet and in this figure: The agreement is reasonable from 1.5 to 15 Jy.