%0 Journal Article
%T The NIKA instrument: results and perspectives towards a permanent KID based camera for the Pico Veleta observatory
%A A. D'Addabbo
%A R. Adam
%A A. Adane
%A P. Ade
%A P. Andr¨¦
%A A. Beelen
%A B. Belier
%A A. Benoit
%A A. Bideaud
%A N. Billot
%A O. Bourrion
%A M. Calvo
%A A. Catalano
%A G. Coiffard
%A B. Comis
%A F. -X. D¨¦sert
%A S. Doyle
%A J. Goupy
%A C. Kramer
%A S. Leclercq
%A J. Macias-Perez
%A J. Martino
%A P. Mauskopf
%A F. Mayet
%A A. Monfardini
%A F. Pajot
%A E. Pascale
%A N. Ponthieu
%A V. Rev¨¦ret
%A L. Rodriguez
%A G. Savini
%A K. F. Schuster
%A A. Sievers
%A C. Tucker
%A R. Zylka
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%X 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 the focal plane of the IRAM 30-meters telescope at Pico Veleta (Spain). We present preliminary data from the last observational run and the ongoing developments devoted to the next NIKA-2 kilopixels camera, to be commissioned in 2015. We also report on the latest laboratory measurements, and recent improvements in detector cosmetics and read-out electronics. Furthermore, we describe a new acquisition strategy allowing us to improve the photometric accuracy, and the related automatic tuning procedure.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4801v1