@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ TERM,MEANING
334LGSF , Four-Laser Guide Star Facility
444MOST , 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (Proposed new spectroscopic instrument for VISTA)
554T , Four Telescope (VLTI mode)
6- A&A , " Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics"
7- A&ARv , " Journal, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics"
86AAA , Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
97AACS , Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystems
108ACD , Amplitude Calibration Device (ALMA)
@@ -26,15 +24,13 @@ AJ,The Astronomical Journal
2624ALMA , Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
2725AM0 , Air Mass Zero (Space Vacuum)
2826AMBER , " Astronomical Multi-BEam combineR (VLTI Instrument)"
29- AN , " Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten"
3027Antu , VLT Unit Telescope 1
3128AO , Adaptive Optics
3229AOF , Adaptive Optics Facility
3330AOS , " Array Operations Site (ALMA)"
3431APE , Active Phasing Experiment
3532APEX , Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
3633ApJ , Astrophysical Journal
37- ApJS , " Journal, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series"
3834AQUARIUS , " Mid-infrared detector array (VISIR)"
3935ARAL , Alignment facility for the VLTI
4036ARC , " ALMA Regional Centre, or Ames Research Center"
@@ -65,7 +61,7 @@ CADC,Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
6561CAPj , Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal
6662CARLA , Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (Spitzer)
6763CASA , Common Astronomy Software Applications (ALMA)
68- CBR , cosmic background radiation
64+ CBR , Cosmic Background Radiation
6965CDR , Critical Design Review
7066CDS , " Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center)"
7167CEA , " Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique, France"
@@ -74,23 +70,19 @@ CES,Coude Echelle Spectrometer
7470CGM , Circumgalactic medium
7571CHAMP+ , Dual channel heterodyne receiver array (APEX)
7672CLIF , Convolution with Linearized Inverse Filter algorithm for wavefront sensing
77- CM , center of mass
73+ CM , Center of Mass
7874CMB , Cosmic Microwave Background
7975CMBR , Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
8076CME , Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
8177CNAM , Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
8278CNRS , Centre national de la recherche scientifique
83- CO , Carbon monoxide
84- CO , Carried Over budget
8579COFUND , EU fellowship funding programme
8680CONDOR , " 1.5 THz heterodyne receiver (APEX)"
8781CONICA , COudé Near-Infrared CAmera (VLT)
8882CORALIE , Echelle Spectrograph on the 1.2-metre Leonard Euler Swiss telescope
8983CoRoT , COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits (French Satellite)
9084COSMOS , HST survey programme
91- Cou- , Council Document
9285CP , Calibration Programme
93- CPI , Consumer Price Index
9486CRIRES+ , Planned upgrade to CRIRES
9587CRIRES , Cryogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrometer (VLT)
9688CSV , Commissioning and Science Verification
@@ -100,12 +92,10 @@ CTAO,Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
10092CUBES , Cassegrain U-band Brazilian ESO Spectrograph
10193CuRe , Fast wavefront reconstruction algorithms for XAO with pyramid WFS
10294CuReD , Fast wavefront reconstruction algorithms for XAO with pyramid WFS with pre-processing
103- DC , Direct Current
10495DDS , Data DistributIOn middleware for SPARTA
10596DDT , Director’s Discretionary Time
10697DFG , Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
10798DFS , (VLT) Data Flow System
108- DG , Director General
10999DIG , Deep Imaging Group (Vitacura)
110100DL , Delay Line (VLTI)
111101DMO , Data Management and Operations Division
@@ -122,7 +112,6 @@ EFOSC2,ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (v.2)
122112EIB , European Investment Bank
123113EIROforum , Organisation consisting of the seven largest scientific European international organisations devoted to fostering mutual activities
124114ELT , Extremely Large Telescope
125- EM&P , " Journal, Earth, Moon, and Planets"
126115EMAC , ELT Management Advisory Committee
127116EMBL , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany)
128117EMMI , ESO Multi-Mode Instrument (NTT)
@@ -143,7 +132,6 @@ ESRC,ELT Standing Review Committee
143132ETF , ELT Technical Facility
144133EVALSO , Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-american Southern Observatories
145134EWASS , European Week of Astronomy and Space Science
146- ExA , " Journal, Experimental Astronomy"
147135ExTrA , " (La Silla) Exoplanets in Transit and their Atmospheres"
148136FC , Finance Committee
149137FDR , Final Design Review
@@ -172,7 +160,6 @@ GRAVITY,"AO assisted, two-object, multiple-beam-combiner (VLTI)"
172160GROND , " Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (MPG/ESO 2.2-metre)"
173161GTC , Gran Telescopio Canarias
174162GTO , Guaranteed Time for Observation
175- GWh , Gigawatt hours
176163GÉANT , European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes
177164H-LTAO , HARMONI Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics
178165H2020 , (EU) Horizon 2020 Programme
@@ -218,7 +205,6 @@ JAO,Joint ALMA Observatory
218205JENAM , Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting
219206JUICE , JUpiter ICy moons Explorer
220207JWST , James Webb Space Telescope
221- k , " kilo/1,000"
222208KIDS , (VST) Kilo-Degree Survey
223209KMOS , K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (VLT)
224210KTS , Klaus Tschira Stiftung
@@ -243,7 +229,6 @@ LSP,"La Silla Paranal Subcommittee"
243229LTAO , Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics
244230LTC , Coordinated Lunar Time
245231LVSM , Large Visible Sensor Module
246- M , " million/1,000,000"
247232MACAO , Multiple Application Curvature Adaptive Optic
248233MACCON , Motion controller manufacturer
249234MAD , Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator
@@ -262,17 +247,15 @@ MICADO,Adaptive optics imaging camera (ELT)
262247MIDI , Mid-infrared Interferometric Instrument (VLTI)
263248MIM , " Museo Interactivo Mirador, Santiago"
264249mmVLBI , Millimeter Very Long Baseline Interferometry
265- Mn , " Mirror #n"
266- MNRAS , " Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society"
267250MOAO , Multiple-Object Adaptive Optics
268251MOONS , Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph (VLT third generation)
269252MOS , (ELT) Multi-Object Spectroscopy
270253MOSAIC , " (ELT) Multi-Object Spectrograph (Multi-Object Spectrograph for Astrophysics, Intergalactic medium studies and Cosmology)"
271254MOSFIRE , Near-infrared multi-object spectrograph (Keck)
272- MPA , Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
273- MPE , Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
274- MPG , Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
275- MPIA , Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
255+ MPA , Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Germany)
256+ MPE , Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany)
257+ MPG , Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Germany)
258+ MPIA , Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Germany)
276259MPIfR , Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Germany)
277260MS , Member State(s)
278261MTC , Coordinated Mars Time
@@ -286,11 +269,10 @@ NAV,Navision
286269NDF , Non-Deliverable Forward Agreement
287270NEAR , New Earths in the Alpha Cen Region experiment
288271NEO , Near-Earth Object
289- NewA , " Journal, New Astronomy"
290- NewAR , " Journal, New Astronomy Reviews"
291272NFM , Narrow Field Mode
292273NGC , New General Catalogue
293274NGC , New General detector Controller
275+ NGRST , Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
294276NGSD , " Proposed large natural/laser guide star WFS detector (ELT)"
295277NGTS , Next Generation Transit Survey
296278NINS , National Institutes of Natural Sciences
@@ -315,7 +297,6 @@ OSF,ALMA Operations Support Facilities
315297OSO , Onsala Space Observatory
316298OT , Observing Tool
317299OTS , Operations Technical Support
318- P&SS , " Journal, Planetary and Space Science"
319300P2PP , Peer to Peer Protocol
320301P86 , Observing Period 86
321302P87 , Observing Period 87
@@ -325,8 +306,6 @@ PACMAN,Fringe tracker for PRIMA (VLTI)
325306PAE , Provisional Acceptance Europe
326307PARLA , " PAranal Raman Laser, replacement for PARSEC (VLTI)"
327308PARSEC , Sodium line laser for VLT AO
328- PASJ , " Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan"
329- PASP , " Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific"
330309PDR , Preliminary Design Review
331310PESSTO , Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects
332311PFS , (ELT) Pre-Focal Station
@@ -443,7 +422,6 @@ VVV,ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea
443422WASP , Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
444423WFCAM , Infrared wide field camera for the UK Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea
445424WFI , " Wide Field Imager (MPG/ESO 2.2-metre)"
446- WiFi , Wireless Fidelity
447425WVR , Water Vapour Radiometer (ALMA)
448426X-shooter , Wideband ultraviolet-infrared single target spectrograph (VLT)
449427XAO , Extreme adaptive optics
@@ -453,4 +431,3 @@ Z-Spec,Millimetre-wave spectrograph (APEX visitor instrument)
453431zCOSMOS , Large Programme to measure 30 000 galaxies in the HST Cosmic Origins field
454432ZIMPOL , " Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (SPHERE, ELT)"
455433ΛCDM , Lambda Cold Dark Matter
456- μm , Micrometre
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