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A Minion in PANIC arrives to Calar Alto Observatory

Fecha: 01/04/2025 - 12:30 Conferenciante: Ana Guijarro, Vianak Naranjo, Antonio J. García, José M. Ibáñez and Sara Muñoz Filiación: MPIA, CAHA and IAA-CSIC, Germany/Spain Calar Alto has a new tenant: PANIC, the PAnoramic Near-Infrared Camera for Calar Alto. PANIC is a project jointly developed by the MPIA in Heidelberg, Germany, and the IAA in Granada, Spain, for the Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA; Almería, Spain). This instrument can work with the 2.2 m and 3.5 m telescopes. Its original detector has been recently replaced by a monolithic HAWAII-4RG, therefore the instrument covers now a field of view of 26×26 arcmin and 13×13 arcmin at each telescope, respectively, with a sampling of 4096 × 4096 pixels without gaps. It is designed for the spectral bands from Z to Ks, but can also be equipped with narrow band filters, such as H2, Br-gamma. It is the first 4K infrared camera for the European sky! PANIC had its first light at the 2.2m telescope in November 2014 and was accepted by CAHA in 2015 under the statement that all parties (CAHA, MPIA and IAA) agreed that the array of four Hawaii-2RG detectors should be replaced as soon as possible. The replacement was successful, the commissioning fruitful, and the instrument is upgraded and ready to be used by the scientific community! PANIC can be booked for observation at the 2.2 m telescope starting next semester, the call for proposals is already open and the deadline is on 10th April 2025. In this talk we present the work done to upgrade the instrument with this new detector, the instrument performance and the high level software. This software has been developed for the planning of the observations (Observation Tool), for the interactive analysis of images during the observations (Quicklook), and for the final data reduction (PAPI, PANIC Pipeline). Curious about the Minion? Come to our talk!