A dual-band millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera for the IRAM 30-meter telescope
| Autor: | Monfardini, A., Benoit, A., Bideaud, A., Swenson, L. J., Roesch, M., Desert, F. X., Doyle, S., Endo, A., Cruciani, A., Ade, P., Baryshev, A. M., Baselmans, J. J. A., Bourrion, O., Calvo, M., Camus, P., Ferrari, L., Giordano, C., Hoffmann, C., Leclercq, S., Macias-Perez, J. F., Mauskopf, P., Schuster, K. F., Tucker, C., Vescovi, C., Yates, S. J. C. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 194, Number 2, 24 (2011) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0067-0049/194/2/24 |
| Popis: | Context. The Neel IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a fully-integrated measurement system based on kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) currently being developed for millimeter wave astronomy. In a first technical run, NIKA was successfully tested in 2009 at the Institute for Millimetric Radio Astronomy (IRAM) 30-meter telescope at Pico Veleta, Spain. This prototype consisted of a 27-42 pixel camera imaging at 150 GHz. Subsequently, an improved system has been developed and tested in October 2010 at the Pico Veleta telescope. The instrument upgrades included dual-band optics allowing simultaneous imaging at 150 GHz and 220 GHz, faster sampling electronics enabling synchronous measurement of up to 112 pixels per measurement band, improved single-pixel sensitivity, and the fabrication of a sky simulator to replicate conditions present at the telescope. Results. The new dual-band NIKA was successfully tested in October 2010, performing in-line with sky simulator predictions. Initially the sources targeted during the 2009 run were re-imaged, verifying the improved system performance. An optical NEP was then calculated to be around 2 \dot 10-16 W/Hz1/2. This improvement in comparison with the 2009 run verifies that NIKA is approaching the target sensitivity for photon-noise limited ground-based detectors. Taking advantage of the larger arrays and increased sensitivity, a number of scientifically-relevant faint and extended objects were then imaged including the Galactic Center SgrB2(FIR1), the radio galaxy Cygnus A and the NGC1068 Seyfert galaxy. These targets were all observed simultaneously in the 150 GHz and 220 GHz atmospheric windows. Comment: Submitted to ApJ (abstract reduced to fit ApJ standards) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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