The New IRAM KID Array 2 (NIKA 2) is a dual-band camera operating with three frequency-multiplexed kilopixels arrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) cooled at 150 mK. NIKA 2 is designed to observe the intensity and polarisation of the sky at 1.15 and 2.0 mm wavelength from the IRAM 30 m telescope. The NIKA 2 instrument represents a huge step in performance as compared to the NIKA pathfinder instrument, which has already shown state-of-the-art detector and photometric performance. After the commissioning planned to be accomplished at the end of 2016, NIKA 2 will be an IRAM resident instrument for the next ten years or more. NIKA 2 should allow the astrophysical community to tackle a large number of open questions reaching from the role of the Galactic magnetic field in star formation to the discrepancy between cluster-based and CMB-based cosmology possibly induced by the unknown cluster physics. We present an overview of the commissioning phase together with some first results.
@article{arxiv.1605.08628,
title = {The NIKA2 commissioning campaign: performance and first results},
author = {A. Catalano and R. Adam and P. Ade and P. André and H. Aussel and A. Beelen and A. Benoît and A. Bideaud and N. Billot and O. Bourrion and M. Calvo and G. Coiffard and B. Comis and F. -X. Désert and S. Doyle and J. Goupy and C. F. Kramer and G. Lagache and S. Leclercq and J. F. Lestrade and J. F. Macías-Pérez and A. Maury and P. Mauskopf and F. Mayet and A. Monfardini and F. Pajot and E. Pascale and L. Perotto and G. Pisano and N. Ponthieu and V. Revéret and A. Ritacco and L. Rodriguez and C. Romero and H. Roussel and F. Ruppin and K. Schuster and A. Sievers and J. Soler and S. Triqueneaux and C. Tucker and R. Zylka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08628},
year = {2016}
}