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Prototype high angular resolution LEKIDs for NIKA2

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-06-28 v2

Abstract

The current resolution of the NIKA2 260 GHz arrays is limited by the 1.6×1.5mm21.6\times 1.5 mm^2 inductor size on the individual pixels. In view of future updates of the instrument, we have developed a prototype array with smaller pixels that is experimentally compared to the current pixel design. We find an in-lab improvement increase of the angular resolution of 8%, promising an on-sky FWHM resolution of 10.2" using this new pixel design.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.08232,
  title  = {Prototype high angular resolution LEKIDs for NIKA2},
  author = {Shibo Shu and Martino Calvo and Samuel Leclercq and Johannes Goupy and Alessandro Monfardini and Eduard Driessen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08232},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Journal of Low Temperature Detector

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