PANIC: current status

We will present the current status of the PANIC project. This instrument will be the first to be built inside the Spanish-German consortium signed between MPIA and IAA for the development of new instrumentation for the Calar Alto Observatory. PANIC is a wide-field infrared imager for the Ritchey-Chrétien focus of the Calar Alto 2.2m and 3.5m telescopes. The camera optical design is a folded single optical train that images the sky onto the focal plane with a plate scale of 0.45" per 18 µm pixel at the 2.2m and 0.23"/px at the 3.5m. A mosaic of four Hawaii 2RG of 2k x 2k made by Teledyne, will give a field of view of 31.9 arcmin x 31.9 arcmin and 16.4 arcmin x 16.4 arcmin, respectively. This cryogenic instrument will cover the photometric bands from Z to K (0.8 to 2.5 µm). The control software of the instrument can be divided into the GEIRS for the basic control, and a tool for support the observation, the Observing Tool. Regarding the data handling, PANIC will have a Quick-Look tool for pre-reduction and visualization of the raw data, and a pipeline for the complete reduction.

In this talk, we will outline the main features and the present status of these software components and some examples already implemented will be given.