NIKA2 (New IRAM KID Array 2) is a camera dedicated to millimeter wave astronomy based upon kilopixel arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID). The pathfinder instrument, NIKA, has already shown state-of-the-art detector performance. NIKA2 builds upon this experience but goes one step further, increasing the total pixel count by a factor ∼10 while maintaining the same per pixel performance. For the next decade, this camera will be the resident photometric instrument of the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) 30m telescope in Sierra Nevada (Spain). In this paper we give an overview of the main components of NIKA2, and describe the achieved detector performance. The camera has been permanently installed at the IRAM 30m telescope in October 2015. It will be made accessible to the scientific community at the end of 2016, after a one-year commissioning period. When this happens, NIKA2 will become a fundamental tool for astronomers worldwide.
@article{arxiv.1601.02774,
title = {The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy},
author = {M. Calvo and A. Benoit and A. Catalano and J. Goupy and A. Monfardini and N. Ponthieu and E. Barria and G. Bres and M. Grollier and G. Garde and J. -P. Leggeri and G. Pont and S. Triqueneaux and R. Adam and O. Bourrion and J. -F. Macías-Pérez and M. Rebolo and A. Ritacco and J. -P. Scordilis and D. Tourres and C. Vescovi and F. -X. Désert and A. Adane and G. Coiffard and S. Leclercq and S. Doyle and P. Mauskopf and C. Tucker and P. Ade and P. André and A. Beelen and B. Belier and A. Bideaud and N. Billot and B. Comis and A. D'Addabbo and C. Kramer and J. Martino and F. Mayet and F. Pajot and E. Pascale and L. Perotto and V. Revéret and L. Rodriguez and G. Savini and K. Schuster and A. Sievers and R. Zylka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02774},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the 16th Low Temperature Detectors workshop. To be published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table