!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The analysis performed using mostly only 2mm, as a large part of the 1mm data we got is incorrect ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. the major (if not the only) difference compared to other cont. receivers is the calculation of the signal: (I,Q) -> R [mHz] R should be proportional to the total power/source signal example of a "frequency sweep", i.e tuning of NIKA fig.1a 3 freq. sweeps as function of time clear gradient as function of the KID number visible, similar to the gradient of the flat field in fig.12a; the signal is smaller in the 2nd & the 3rd sweeps; the 2nd & the 3rd sweeps are nearly identical, i.e. this decrease is not a random effect fig.1b same data in the (I,Q) plane; better visible that the second (in green) and the third (in blue) sweeps gives smaller circles in (I,Q); green is hardly visible as overplotted with blue, i.e. the two are almost identical 2. immediately visible problems in the linearised signal R - instabilities fig.2 - jumps, >11 during ~1300sec, marked with vertical grey lines - jumps are not equal - KID dependent - atmospherical signal is not well correlated (comp. red, blue ... black) - negative signal fig.3 KID87 shows negative signal - cross talk fig.4 in KIDs 4, 15, 18, 19, 20, 26, 53? also important: KID71 does not show the signal of Uranus clear distortion of most beams => - beam distortion (as no focussing), i.e. beam efficiency might be changed even by 50% => calib. factor by 2 fig.5 - pointing not corrected during the whole run => statistics on pointing corrections for NIKA not possible the beam maps show offsets of up to 10asec (these offsets affect even the calculation of the FoV geometry) statistics of pointing corrections for EMIR, period of NIKA run #2 (NIKA used the pointing model of EMIR) fig.6 3. further instabilities - correlation (flat field) plots show many different problems, also in groups of KIDs => the "noise" in the final image is dominated by these instabilities fig.7 - "50sec steps" (not shown) - oscillations visible after removing of the correlated signals (~ sky noise) with different zoomming factors different oscillation frequencies visible (as aliasing appears) fig.8a e.g. KIDs 1, 11, 23, 32, 69, 70 fig.8b fig.8c e.g. KIDs 1, 11, ... 69, 70, ... 99 4. relative calibration - FoV geometry: distortion, position of KIDs 21 & 22 @2mm changed due to a cross talk fig.9 fig.10 fig.11 - flat field: change >10 for 2mm, > 3 for 1mm fig.12a clear gradient, similar to the gradient seen in fig.1a fig.12b KID35 <<, KID42 >> fig.12c very flat - statistics of the flat field fig.13 fig.14 5. comments on mapping - efficiency eff ~ (time of a subscan) / [(time of a subscan) + (time for an U-turn)] time for an U-turn >~5sec time of a subscan deltaAz/vAz vAz = 10 to 20asec/sec, i.e. even 4*Nyquist samplig of the coords @1mm (slow loop with 1Hz !) => time of a subscan even just 6sec => efficiency down to ~50% ! - map sizes the smallest map size in the scanning dir. is given by: source size + array diameter + HPBW + "base range" => all maps too small additional NCS problem: the subscan length (= map length in the scanning dir.) is always shorter than commanded by vAz/freqSlowLoop, i.e. 10 to 20asec for maps with NIKA, run #2 fig.15 circles: the commanded coords, dots: coords interpolated to the time stamps of NIKA