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Observations with KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey (KISS)

  • Fasano A.,
  • Catalano A.,
  • Macías-Pérez J.F.,
  • Aguiar M.,
  • Beelen A.,
  • Benoit A.,
  • Bideaud A.,
  • Bounmy J.,
  • Bourrion O.,
  • Bres G.,
  • Calvo M.,
  • Castro-Almazán J.A.,
  • de Bernardis P.,
  • De Petris M.,
  • de Taoro A.P.,
  • Fernández-Torreiro M.,
  • Garde G.,
  • Génova-Santos R.,
  • Gomez A.,
  • Gómez-Renasco M.F.,
  • Goupy J.,
  • Hoarau C.,
  • Hoyland R.,
  • Lagache G.,
  • Marpaud J.,
  • Marton M.,
  • Monfardini A.,
  • Peel M.W.,
  • Pisano G.,
  • Ponthieu N.,
  • Rebolo R.,
  • Roudier S.,
  • Rubiño-Martín J.A.,
  • Tourres D.,
  • Tucker C.,
  • Vescovi C.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225700017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 257
p. 00017

Abstract

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We describe the preliminary on-sky results of the KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey (KISS), a spectral imager with a 1 deg field of view (FoV). The instrument operates in the range 120–180 GHz from the 2.25m Q-U-I JOint TEnerife telescope in Teide Observatory (Tenerife, Canary Islands), at 2 395m altitude above sea level. Spectra at low resolution, up to 1.45 GHz, are obtained using a fast (3.72 Hz mechanical frequency) Fourier transform spectrometer, coupled to a continuous dilution cryostat with a stabilized temperature of 170mK that hosts two 316-pixel arrays of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors. KISS generates more than 3 000 spectra per second during observations and represents a pathfinder to demonstrate the potential for spectral mapping with large FoV.We give an overall description of the spectral mapping paradigm and we present recent results from observations, in this paper.