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NIKA

This page is maintained by CK and SL

Contents

  1. NIKA
    1. Overview
    2. Publications
    3. Team
    4. Test runs 2009-2012
      1. 5th test run, November 2012
      2. 4th test run, June 2012
      3. 3rd test run, October 2011
      4. 2nd test run, October 2010
    5. 1st test run, October 2009
    6. NIKA-2

Overview

Pixels

Wavelength

Bandwidth

Sensitivity

HPBW

Field-of-View

Spacing

NIKA-1 run 5

132 (91 valid)

2 mm

122-166 GHz

30 mJy*s1/2

18.5"

2.3' diameter

9.8"

NIKA-1 run 5

244 (126 valid)

1.25 mm

213-251 GHz

80 mJy*s1/2

12.5"

2.3' diameter

6.8"

The New IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a Kinetic Inductance Detectors camera for bolometric observations at the IRAM 30m telescope. It has been build by the Institut Néel, in Grenoble, France under the lead of Alain Benoit, and with the contributions of other persons forming the NIKA collaboration and comming from the following institutes: IPAG, LPSC, SRON, AIG Cardiff, CEA. NIKA consists of a dual band instrument using few hundreds of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID). The KID resonances variations which are dependent on the incoming power are probed by a comb of tones allowing to perform frequency domain multiplexing. Being a prototype in constant evolution the arrays characteristics (number of pixels, field of view, sensitivity, etc.) have evolved over the years from each test run to the other. The main characteristics of the latest configuration are summarized on the above table.

Publications

Team

  • Overall coordinator: Samuel Leclercq <leclercq@iram.fr> (IRAM/Grenoble)

  • NIKA team: collaboration between groups from the Institut Néel, IPAG, LPSC, AIG Cardiff, SRON, CEA, and IRAM. The Néel Institute is the main constructor of the NIKA prototype, and is coordinating the various groups. Main support team:
  • IRAM support team:

    • Carsten Kramer (station manager, <kramer@iram.es>)

    • Robert Zylka
    • Albrecht Sievers
    • Nicolas Billot
    • Walter Brunswig

Test runs 2009-2012

5th test run, November 2012

Go to the 5th run Wiki page

4th test run, June 2012

Go to the 4th run Wiki page

3rd test run, October 2011

Go to the 3rd run Wiki page

2nd test run, October 2010

Go to the 2nd run Wiki page

1st test run, October 2009

Go to the 1st run Wiki page

NIKA-2

NIKA-1 is a 2.3' FOV prototype used to test the technologies to be used in bigger 6.5' FOV NIKA-2 instrument currently in development phase.

Go to the NIKA-2 development team Wiki page (private)