|
| | | | |
| | | |
| Stat |
Members: 3645
Articles: 2'504'928
Articles rated: 2609
26 April 2024 |
|
| | | | |
|
Article overview
| |
|
|
NIKA: A Millimeter-Wave Kinetic Inductance Camera | | A. Monfardini
; L. J. Swenson
; A. Bideaud
; F. X. Désert
; S. J. C. Yates
; A. Benoit
; A. M. Baryshev
; J. J. A. Baselmans
; S. Doyle
; B. Klein
; M. Roesch
; C. Tucker
; P. Ade
; M. Calvo
; P. Camus
; C. Giordano
; R. Guesten
; C. Hoffmann
; S. Leclercq
; P. Mauskopf
; K. F. Schuster
; | | Date: |
13 Apr 2010 | | Abstract: | Current generation millimeter wavelength detectors suffer from scaling limits
imposed by complex cryogenic readout electronics. To circumvent this it is
imperative to investigate technologies that intrinsically incorporate strong
multiplexing. One possible solution is the Kinetic-Inductance Detector (KID).
In order to assess the potential of this nascent technology, a prototype
instrument optimized for the 2 mm atmospheric window was constructed. Known as
the N’eel IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA), it was recently tested at the Institute for
Millimetric Radio Astronomy (IRAM) 30-meter telescope at Pico Veleta, Spain.
The measurement resulted in the imaging of a number of sources, including
planets, quasars, and galaxies. The images for Mars, radio star MWC349, quasar
3C345, and galaxy M87 are presented. From these results, the optical NEP was
calculated to be around $1 imes 10^{-15}$ W$ / $Hz$^{1/2}$. A factor of 10
improvement is expected to be readily feasible by improvements in the detector
materials and reduction of performance-degrading spurious radiation. | | Source: | arXiv, 1004.2209 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
|
|
No review found.
Did you like this article?
Note: answers to reviews or questions about the article must be posted in the forum section.
Authors are not allowed to review their own article. They can use the forum section.
browser Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
News, job offers and information for researchers and scientists:
| |
REGISTER