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NIKA2Sky

Observing the millimeter sky with the NIKA2 camera
Funder: French National Research Agency (ANR)Project code: ANR-15-CE31-0017
Funder Contribution: 405,720 EUR
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The observation of the sky at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths in the past years contributed to tremendous improvements in our understanding of a great variety of scientific topics ranging from the star formation in the Milky Way to the measurement of cosmological parameters. Following the recent results obtained by the Planck and Herschel satellites, the advent of a millimetre camera, capable of surveying large areas of the sky at a high-angular resolution, with a high sensitivity and a large field of view, will continue to reveal the details of the formation and evolution of structures throughout the Universe. The NIKA2 camera is a next-generation instrument for millimetre astronomy. It is operated at 100 mK and will be installed in June 2015 on the 30-m telescope of IRAM (Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique). NIKA2 will observe the sky at 150 and 260 GHz with a wide field of view (6.5 arcmin) at high-angular resolution (nominally 18 and 12 arcsec, respectively), and state-of-art sensitivity (requirement 20 and 30 mJy.s1/2, respectively). It will also have polarization capabilities at 260 GHz. With its high mapping speed (5000 detectors in total) and dual band observation, NIKA2 will revolutionize our view of the cold Universe. No other instrument exists or is even planned for the coming years to compete with NIKA2 in terms of sensitivity, angular resolution, polarization capabilities and available time of observation in the world. The NIKA2 consortium is an international collaboration gathering 14 laboratories from France UK and Italy that has successfully answered in 2011 a call for tender issued by the IRAM concerning the next generation large field continuum instrumentation at the 30-m telescope. The first phase (2011-2015) of the project has been partially funded by the ANR. It addresses the design, building and testing of the NIKA2 camera. This phase is completed and the camera is taking the first laboratory images in the two bands, including the polarization channel. The NIKA2 schedule for the installation in June 2015 at the 30-m telescope has been approved by IRAM. During this first phase, a prototype camera (NIKA1, dual-band with a total of ~300 KIDs) has also been built and installed at the IRAM 30-m telescope. As a test bench for the final NIKA2 instrument, the NIKA1 camera has been optimized during the two observation campaigns on November 2012 and June 2013. Current NIKA1 performance fulfills already the NIKA2 requirements in terms of sensitivity. The second phase (2016-2020) regards the scientific exploitation of this future world-leading instrument. Indeed, 1300 hours have been allocated to the NIKA2 consortium, i.e. the largest amount of guaranteed time ever given by IRAM to a single collaboration. Our NIKA2Sky project is centered on the three large programs led by French institutes, that have each been granted 300 hours of observation (900 hr in total). The scientific program is dedicated to the study of the inner structure of galaxy clusters via Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect, and of star formation at low and high redshift, both by studying the role of magnetic fields on sub-parsec scales (down to a resolution of ~ 2000 AU) in our Galaxy, and mapping the dusty star forming galaxies up to redshifts 6. We request a financial support to hire 4 post-docs and organize collaboration meetings as well as a workshop to ensure a high visibility of the results obtained with NIKA2. This support would capitalize on our instrumental efforts, funded by the ANR, which led to the building of a unique and world-leading instrument in millimetre astronomy.

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