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The NIKA2 Instrument at 30-m IRAM Telescope: Performance and Results

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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 intracluster 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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This work has been partially funded by the Foundation Nanoscience Grenoble, the LabEx FOCUS ANR-11-LABX-0013, and the ANR under the contracts ”MKIDS,” ”NIKA,” and ANR-15-CE31-0017. This work has benefited from the support of the European Research Council Advanced Grant ORISTARS under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (Grant Agreement no. 291294). We acknowledge fundings from the ENIGMASS French LabEx (R. A. and F. R.), the CNES postdoctoral fellowship programme (R. A.), the CNES doctoral fellowship programme (A. R.), and the FOCUS French LabEx doctoral fellowship programme (A. R.).

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  1. Laboratoire Lagrange, Université et Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Blvd de l’Observatoire, 06304, Nice, France

    R. Adam

  2. University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (U.S.T.H.B.), BP 32 El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111, Algiers, Algeria

    A. Adane

  3. Astronomy Instrumentation Group, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

    P. A. R. Ade, S. Doyle, E. Pascale, G. Pisano, C. Tucker, R. Evans & A. Rigby

  4. Laboratoire AIM, CEA/IRFU, CNRS/INSU, Université Paris Diderot, CEA-Saclay, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France

    P. André, H. Aussel, V. Revéret, A. Bracco & A. Maury

  5. Institut de Planétologie et Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), UGA & CNRS, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble, France

    F.-X. Désert, N. Ponthieu & A. Andrianasolo

  6. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), 13388, Marseille, France

    A. Beelen & G. Lagache

  7. Institut Néel, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), 25 av. des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, France

    A. Catalano, A. Benoît, A. Bideaud, M. Calvo, J. Goupy, A. Monfardini, S. Triqueneaux, E. Barria, G. Bres, P. Camus, P. Chanthib, G. Donnier-Valentin, O. Exshaw, G. Garde, A. Gerardin, J.-P. Leggeri, F. Levy-Bertrand, C. Guttin, C. Hoarau, M. Grollier, J.-L. Mocellin, G. Pont, H. Rodenas & O. Tissot

  8. Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Granada, Spain

    N. Billot, C. Kramer, A. Ritacco, A. Sievers, G. Galvez, D. John, H. Ungerechts, S. Sanchez, P. Mellado, M. Munoz, F. Pierfederici, J. Penalver & S. Navarro

  9. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, 53, av. des Martyrs, Grenoble, France

    A. Catalano, O. Bourrion, B. Comis, J. F. Macías-Pérez, F. Mayet, L. Perotto, F. Ruppin, G. Bosson, J.-L. Bouly, J. Bouvier, C. Geraci, C. Li, J. Menu, N. Ponchant, S. Roni, S. Roudier, J. P. Scordillis, D. Tourres & C. Vescovi

  10. Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Grenoble, France

    E. F. C. Driessen, S. Leclercq, C. Romero, K. Schuster, R. Zylka, A. Barbier, D. Billon-Pierron & G. Coiffard

  11. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    M. De Petris

  12. LERMA, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, France

    J.-F. Lestrade

  13. School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA

    P. Mauskopf

  14. Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS (UMR7095), 98 bis boulevard Arago, 75014, Paris, France

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Catalano, A., Adam, R., Ade, P.A.R. et al. The NIKA2 Instrument at 30-m IRAM Telescope: Performance and Results. J Low Temp Phys 193, 916–922 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1884-5

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