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| The New IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a Kinetic Inductance Detectors camera for bolometric observations at the IRAM 30m telescope. This is 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. NIKA has been built by the Institut Néel (IN), in Grenoble, France under the lead of Alain Benoit, and with the contributions of other persons forming the NIKA collaboration. In 2013 the main contributing institutes are IN, IRAM, IPAG, LPSC, AIG Cardiff. |
The New IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a Kinetic Inductance Detectors camera for bolometric observations at the IRAM 30m telescope. This is 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. <<BR>> NIKA has been built by the Institut Néel (IN), in Grenoble, France under the lead of Alain Benoit, and with the contributions of other persons forming the NIKA collaboration. In 2013 the main contributing institutes are IN, IRAM, IPAG, LPSC, AIG Cardiff. |
NIKA
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Contents
NIKA-1 Overview
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Pixels |
Wavelength |
Bandwidth |
Sensitivity |
HPBW |
Field-of-View |
Spacing |
NIKA-1 run 6 |
132 (128 valid) |
2 mm |
122-166 GHz |
15 mJy*s1/2 (preliminary) |
18.5" |
2.3' diameter |
9.8" |
NIKA-1 run 6 |
224 (190 valid) |
1.25 mm |
213-251 GHz |
51 mJy*s1/2 (preliminary |
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. This is 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.
NIKA has been built by the Institut Néel (IN), in Grenoble, France under the lead of Alain Benoit, and with the contributions of other persons forming the NIKA collaboration. In 2013 the main contributing institutes are IN, IRAM, IPAG, LPSC, AIG Cardiff.
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:
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 support team:
Carsten Kramer (station manager, <kramer@iram.es>)
- Robert Zylka
- Albrecht Sievers
- Nicolas Billot
- Walter Brunswig
Test runs 2009-2013
6th test run, June 2013
5th test run, November 2012
4th test run, June 2012
3rd test run, October 2011
2nd test run, October 2010
1st test run, October 2009
Procedure for cooling down the PT NIKA cryostat
See page dedicated to this procedure
NIKA-2
NIKA-1 is a 2.3' FOV prototype used to test the technologies to be used in the bigger 6.5' FOV NIKA-2 instrument currently in development phase.