The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results
Abstract
The New IRAM KID Arrays 2 (NIKA2) consortium has just finished installing and commissioning a millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It is a dual-band camera operating with three frequency multiplexed kilo-pixels arrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) cooled at 150 mK, designed to observe the intensity and polarisation of the sky at 260 and 150 GHz (1.15 and 2 mm). NIKA2 is today an IRAM resident instrument for millimetre astronomy, such as Intra Cluster Medium from intermediate to distant clusters and so for the follow-up of Planck satellite detected clusters, high redshift sources and quasars, early stages of star formation and nearby galaxies emission. We present an overview of the instrument performance as it has been evaluated at the end of the commissioning phase.
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@article{arxiv.1712.04003,
title = {The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results},
author = {A. Catalano and R. Adam and P. A. R. Ade and P. and André and H. Aussel and A. Beelen and A. Benoit and A. Bideaud and N. Billot and O. Bourrion and M. Calvo and B. Comis and M. De Petris and F. -X. Désert and S. Doyle and E. F. C. Driessen and J. Goupy and C. Kramer and G. Lagache and S. Leclercq and J. -F. Lestrade and J. F. Macìas-Pérez and P. Mauskopf and F. Mayet and A. Monfardini and E. Pascale and L. Perotto and G. Pisano and N. Ponthieu and V. Revéret and A. Ritacco and C. Romero and H. Roussel and F. Ruppin and K. Schuster and A. Sievers and S. Triqueneaux and C. Tucker and R. Zylka and E. Barria and G. Bres and P. Camus and P. Chanthib and G. Donnier-Valentin and O. Exshaw and G. Garde and A. Gerardin and J. -P. Leggeri and F. Levy-Bertrand and C. Guttin and C. Hoarau and M. Grollier and J. -L. Mocellin and G. Pont and H. Rodenas and O. Tissot and G. Galvez and D. John and H. Ungerechts and S. Sanchez and P. Mellado and M. Munoz and F. Pierfederici and J. Penalver and S. Navarro and G. Bosson and J. -L. Bouly and J. Bouvier and C. Geraci and C. Li and J. Menu and N. Ponchant and S. Roni and S. Roudier and J. P. Scordillis and D. Tourres and C. Vescovi and A. Barbier and D. Billon-Pierron and A. Adane and A . Andrianasolo and A. Bracco and G. Coiffard and R. Evans and A. Maury and A. Rigby},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04003},
year = {2018}
}