PANIC: the new panoramic NIR camera for Calar Alto

Harald Baumeister; Matthias Alter; M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez; Matilde Fernandez; Josef Fried; Jens Helmling; Armin Huber; Jose-Miguel Ibáñez Mengual; Julio F. Rodríguez Gómez; Werner Laun; Rainer Lenzen; Ulrich Mall; Vianak Naranjo; Jose-Ricardo Ramos; Ralf-Rainer Rohloff; Antonio García Segura; Clemens Storz; Marcos Ubierna; Karl Wagner

doi:10.1117/12.788796

9 July 2008 PANIC: the new panoramic NIR camera for Calar Alto

Harald Baumeister, Matthias Alter, M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez, Matilde Fernandez, Josef Fried, Jens Helmling, Armin Huber, Jose-Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Julio F. Rodríguez Gómez, Werner Laun, Rainer Lenzen, Ulrich Mall, Vianak Naranjo, Jose-Ricardo Ramos, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Antonio García Segura, Clemens Storz, Marcos Ubierna, Karl Wagner

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Proceedings Volume 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II; 70142R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788796
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

PANIC is a wide-field NIR camera, which is currently under development for the Calar Alto observatory (CAHA) in Spain. It uses a mosaic of four Hawaii-2RG detectors and covers the spectral range from 0.8-2.5 μm (z to K-band). The field-of-view is 30×30 arcmin. This instrument can be used at the 2.2m telescope (0.45arcsec/pixel, 0.5×0.5 degree FOV) and at the 3.5m telescope (0.23arcsec/pixel, 0.25×0.25 degree FOV). The operating temperature is about 77K, achieved by liquid Nitrogen cooling. The cryogenic optics has three flat folding mirrors with diameters up to 282 mm and nine lenses with diameters between 130 mm and 255 mm. A compact filter unit can carry up to 19 filters distributed over four filter wheels. Narrow band (1%) filters can be used. The instrument has a diameter of 1.1 m and it is about 1 m long. The weight limit of 400 kg at the 2.2m telescope requires a light-weight cryostat design. The aluminium vacuum vessel and radiation shield have wall thicknesses of only 6 mm and 3 mm respectively.

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Harald Baumeister, Matthias Alter, M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez, Matilde Fernandez, Josef Fried, Jens Helmling, Armin Huber, Jose-Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Julio F. Rodríguez Gómez, Werner Laun, Rainer Lenzen, Ulrich Mall, Vianak Naranjo, Jose-Ricardo Ramos, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Antonio García Segura, Clemens Storz, Marcos Ubierna, and Karl Wagner "PANIC: the new panoramic NIR camera for Calar Alto", Proc. SPIE 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, 70142R (9 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788796

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