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The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results
No full textInternational audienceThe New IRAM KID Array 2 (NIKA 2) is a dual-band camera operating with three frequency multiplexed kilo-pixelsarrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) cooled at 100 mK. NIKA is designed to observethe intensity and polarisation of the sky at 250 and 150 GHz from the IRAM 30 m telescope. It represents onestep further with respect the NIKA pathnder instrument which has already shown state-of-the-art detectors andphotometric performance. NIKA 2 is an IRAM resident instrument for studies of the Intra Cluster Medium fromintermediate to distant clusters and so for the follow-up of Planck satellite detected clusters, high redshift sourcesand quasars, early stages of star formation and nearby galaxies emission. We present an overview of the instrumentperformance and the rst scientic results
