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astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

The NIKA instrument: results and perspectives towards a permanent KID based camera for the Pico Veleta observatory

A. D'Addabbo, R. Adam, A. Adane +32

The New IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a pathfinder instrument devoted to millimetric astronomy. In 2009 it was the first multiplexed KID camera on the sky; currently it is installed at…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 69 cited

First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +904

During the LIGO and Virgo joint science runs in 2009-2010, gravitational wave (GW) data from three interferometer detectors were analyzed within minutes to select GW candidate even…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 44 cited

Latest NIKA results and the NIKA-2 project

A. Monfardini, R. Adam, A. Adane +32

NIKA (New IRAM KID Arrays) is a dual-band imaging instrument installed at the IRAM (Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique) 30-meter telescope at Pico Veleta (Spain). Two distin…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 6 cited

The Detector System for the Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP)

B. R. Johnson, P. A. R. Ade, D. Araujo +20

The Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP) is a proposed balloon-borne experiment designed to study the cosmic microwave background, the cosmic infrared background and…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 44 cited

Observing Extended Sources with the \Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Ronin Wu, Edward T. Polehampton, Mireya Etxaluze +20

The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory utilizes a pioneering design for its imaging spectrometer in the for…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 136 cited

Flux calibration of the Herschel-SPIRE photometer

G. J. Bendo, M. J. Griffin, J. J. Bock +16

We describe the procedure used to flux calibrate the three-band submillimetre photometer in the Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) instrument on the Herschel Space O…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 74 cited

Flux Calibration of Broadband Far Infrared and Submillimetre Photometric Instruments: Theory and Application to Herschel-SPIRE

M. J. Griffin, C. E. North, B. Schulz +15

Photometric instruments operating at far infrared to millimetre wavelengths often have broad spectral passbands (central wavelength/bandwidth ~ 3 or less), especially those operati…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 188 cited

Planck 2013 results. IX. HFI spectral response

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +217

The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) spectral response was determined through a series of ground based tests conducted with the HFI focal plane in a cryogenic environment pri…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 111 cited

Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +220

This paper characterizes the effective beams,the effective beam window functions and the associated errors for the Planck HFI detectors. The effective beam is the angular response…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 78 cited

Planck 2013 results. V. LFI calibration

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan +217

We discuss the methods employed to photometrically calibrate the data acquired by the Low Frequency Instrument on Planck. Our calibration is based on a combination of the Orbital D…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 97 cited

Planck 2013 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan +229

We describe the data processing pipeline of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing centre (DPC) to create and characterize full-sky maps based on the first 15.5…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 53 cited

A Dual-polarized Broadband Planar Antenna and Channelizing Filter Bank for Millimeter Wavelengths

Roger OBrient, Peter Ade, Kam Arnold +9

We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of a broadband log-periodic antenna coupled to multiple cryogenic bolometers. This detector architecture, optimized here for astrop…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 63 cited

An improved sink particle algorithm for SPH simulations

D. A. Hubber, S. Walch, A. P. Whitworth

Numerical simulations of star formation frequently rely on the implementation of sink particles, (a) to avoid expending computational resource on the detailed internal physics of i…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 583 cited

SCUBA-2: The 10000 pixel bolometer camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

W. S. Holland, D. Bintley, E. L. Chapin +46

SCUBA-2 is an innovative 10000 pixel bolometer camera operating at submillimetre wavelengths on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The camera has the capability to carry out…