A consortium led by Institut Néel (Grenoble) has just finished installing a new powerful millimetre camera NIKA2 on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It has an instantaneous field-of-view of 6.5 arcminutes at both 1.2 and 2.0 mm with polarimetric capabilities at 1.2 mm. NIKA2 provides a near diffraction-limited angular resolution (resp. 12 and 18 arcseconds). The 3 detector arrays are made of more than 1000 KIDs each. KIDs are new superconducting devices emerging as an alternative to bolometers. The commissionning is ongoing in 2016 with a likely opening to the IRAM community in early 2017. NIKA2 is a very promising multi-purpose instrument which will enable many scientific discoveries in the coming decade.

NIKA2, a dual-band millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope to map the cold universe / Désert, F.-X., Adam, R., Ade, P., André, P., Aussel, H., Beelen, A., Benoît, A., Bideaud, A., Billot, N., Bourrion, O., Calvo, M., Catalano, A., Coiffard, G., Comis, B., Doyle, S., Goupy, J., Kramer, C., Lagache, G., Leclercq, S., Lestrade, J.-F., et al.. - (2016), pp. 439-442. (Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Journées de la SF2A) Lyon ).

NIKA2, a dual-band millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope to map the cold universe

E. Pascale;G. Pisano;
2016

Abstract

A consortium led by Institut Néel (Grenoble) has just finished installing a new powerful millimetre camera NIKA2 on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It has an instantaneous field-of-view of 6.5 arcminutes at both 1.2 and 2.0 mm with polarimetric capabilities at 1.2 mm. NIKA2 provides a near diffraction-limited angular resolution (resp. 12 and 18 arcseconds). The 3 detector arrays are made of more than 1000 KIDs each. KIDs are new superconducting devices emerging as an alternative to bolometers. The commissionning is ongoing in 2016 with a likely opening to the IRAM community in early 2017. NIKA2 is a very promising multi-purpose instrument which will enable many scientific discoveries in the coming decade.
2016
Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Journées de la SF2A)
Camera, millimetre astronomy, cosmology, galaxies, star formation, interstellar dust
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
NIKA2, a dual-band millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope to map the cold universe / Désert, F.-X., Adam, R., Ade, P., André, P., Aussel, H., Beelen, A., Benoît, A., Bideaud, A., Billot, N., Bourrion, O., Calvo, M., Catalano, A., Coiffard, G., Comis, B., Doyle, S., Goupy, J., Kramer, C., Lagache, G., Leclercq, S., Lestrade, J.-F., et al.. - (2016), pp. 439-442. (Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Journées de la SF2A) Lyon ).
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