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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…
Niobium Silicon alloys for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
M. Calvo, A. D'Addabbo, A. Monfardini +8
We are studying the properties of Niobium Silicon amorphous alloys as a candidate material for the fabrication of highly sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), optimized for…
Detection of the tSZ effect with the NIKA camera
B. Comis, R. Adam, J. F. Macías-Pérez +35
We present the first detection of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from a cluster of galaxies performed with a KIDs (Kinetic Inductance Detectors) based instrument. The…
High speed readout electronics development for frequency-multiplexed kinetic inductance detector design optimization
O. Bourrion, C. Vescovi, A. Catalano +6
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKID) are a promising solution for spaceborne mm-wave astronomy. To optimize their design and make them insensitive to the ballistic phonons…
First observation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with kinetic inductance detectors
R. Adam, B. Comis, J. F. Macías-Pérez +35
Clusters of galaxies provide valuable information on the evolution of the Universe and large scale structures. Recent cluster observations via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ)…
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…