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1 | Abbr,Term |
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2 | 21CSLC,21st Century Space Launch Complex |
3 | 4LGSF,Four-Laser Guide Star Facility |
4 | 4MOST,4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (Proposed new spectroscopic instrument for VISTA) |
5 | 4T,Four Telescope (VLTI mode) |
6 | A&A,Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics |
7 | A&ARv,Journal, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
8 | ACD,Amplitude Calibration Device (ALMA) |
9 | ACe,Astaldi Cimolai EIE (Consortium) |
10 | ADA,ALMA Department of Administration |
11 | ADO,ALMA Director’s Office |
12 | ADS,International Italian optics company working on the DSM for the VLT |
13 | AEM,ALMA construction consortium |
14 | AFNOR,Association Française de Normalisation |
15 | AFTA,Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets |
16 | AGN,Active Galactic Nucleus |
17 | AIDA,Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access |
18 | AIP,Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam |
19 | AIT,Assembly, Integration and Test |
20 | AIV,Assembly, Integration and Verification |
21 | AJ,The Astronomical Journal |
22 | ALMA,Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
23 | AMBER,Astronomical Multi-BEam combineR (VLTI Instrument) |
24 | AN,Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten |
25 | Antu,VLT Unit Telescope 1 |
26 | AO,Adaptive Optics |
27 | AOF,Adaptive Optics Facility |
28 | AOS,Array Operations Site (ALMA) |
29 | APE,Active Phasing Experiment |
30 | APEX,Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
31 | ApJ,Astrophysical Journal |
32 | ApJS,Journal, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |
33 | AQUARIUS,Mid-infrared detector array (VISIR) |
34 | ARAL,Alignment facility for the VLTI |
35 | ARC,ALMA Regional Centre |
36 | ArTeMiS,Bolometric camera for APEX |
37 | ASAC,ALMA Science Advisory Committee |
38 | ASIAA,East Asia FEIC (ALMA) |
39 | ASIC,Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
40 | ASSIST,Adaptive Secondary Setup and Instrument Simulator (AOF test bench) |
41 | AstraLux,Lucky Imaging camera for the Calar Alto 2.2-metre telescope |
42 | AT,Auxiliary Telescope for the VLTI |
43 | ATC,Astronomy Technology Centre (United Kingdom) |
44 | ATILO,Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation |
45 | AU,Astronomical Unit |
46 | AUI,Associated Universities Inc. |
47 | AVM,Astronomical Visualisation Metadata |
48 | BAM,Construction company for the Headquarters extension |
49 | BE,Back-End (ALMA) |
50 | BELLA,Building Europe Link to Latin America |
51 | BFL,Budget and Forward Look |
52 | BlackGEM,(La Silla) Telescope array searching for optical counterparts of gravitational wave sources |
53 | BLIP,Background photon noise limited |
54 | C2PAP,Computational Center for Particle and Astrophysics, Universe Cluster, Garching |
55 | CAD,Computer Aided Design |
56 | CADC,Canadian Astronomy Data Centre |
57 | CAPj,Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal |
58 | CARLA,Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (Spitzer) |
59 | CASA,Common Astronomy Software Applications (ALMA) |
60 | CCD,Charge Coupled Device |
61 | CCTV,Closed Circuit TeleVision |
62 | CDR,Critical Design Review |
63 | CDS,Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center) |
64 | CEA,Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique, France |
65 | CELAC_EU,Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States–European Union |
66 | CES,Coude Echelle Spectrometer |
67 | CfP,Call for Proposal |
68 | CfT,Call for tender |
69 | CHAMP+,Dual channel heterodyne receiver array (APEX) |
70 | CLIF,Convolution with Linearized Inverse Filter algorithm for wavefront sensing |
71 | CLP,Chilean Peso |
72 | CMB,Cosmic Microwave Background |
73 | CMBR,Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
74 | CME,Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun) |
75 | CNAM,Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers |
76 | CNRS,Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
77 | CO,Carbon monoxide |
78 | CO,Carried Over budget |
79 | COFUND,EU fellowship funding programme |
80 | CONDOR,1.5 THz heterodyne receiver (APEX) |
81 | CONICA,COudé Near-Infrared CAmera (VLT) |
82 | CORALIE,Echelle Spectrograph on the 1.2-metre Leonard Euler Swiss telescope |
83 | CoRoT,COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits (French Satellite) |
84 | COSMOS,HST survey programme |
85 | Cou-,Council Document |
86 | CP,Calibration Programme |
87 | CPI,Consumer Price Index |
88 | CRIRES+,Planned upgrade to CRIRES |
89 | CRIRES,Cryogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrometer (VLT) |
90 | CSV,Commissioning and Science Verification |
91 | CTA,Cherenkov Telescope Array |
92 | CTA-S,Cherenkov Telescope Array South |
93 | CTAO,Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory |
94 | CUBES,Cassegrain U-band Brazilian ESO Spectrograph |
95 | CuRe,Fast wavefront reconstruction algorithms for XAO with pyramid WFS |
96 | CuReD,Fast wavefront reconstruction algorithms for XAO with pyramid WFS with pre-processing |
97 | DC,Direct Current |
98 | DDS,Data DistributIOn middleware for SPARTA |
99 | DDT,Director’s Discretionary Time |
100 | DFG,Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
101 | DFS,(VLT) Data Flow System |
102 | DG,Director General |
103 | DIG,Deep Imaging Group (Vitacura) |
104 | DL,Delay Line (VLTI) |
105 | DMO,Data Management and Operations Division |
106 | DMS,Dome and Main Structure |
107 | DRS,DRS, formerly Boeing, detector manufacturer |
108 | DSC,Directorate for Science |
109 | DSM,Deformable Secondary Mirror |
110 | DSO,Department of Science Operations (ALMA) |
111 | eAPD,electron Avalanche Photodiode Detector |
112 | EASC,European ALMA Support Centre |
113 | EC,European Commission |
114 | ECRI,European Conference on Research Infrastructures |
115 | EFOSC2,ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (v.2) |
116 | EIB,European Investment Bank |
117 | EIROforum,Organisation consisting of the seven largest scientific European international organisations devoted to fostering mutual activities |
118 | ELT,Extremely Large Telescope |
119 | EM&P,Journal, Earth, Moon, and Planets |
120 | EMAC,ELT Management Advisory Committee |
121 | EMBL,European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany) |
122 | EMMI,ESO Multi-Mode Instrument (NTT) |
123 | ePOD,education and Public Outreach Department |
124 | ERC,European Research Council |
125 | ERIS,Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph |
126 | ERP,Enterprise Resource Planning (Administration software) |
127 | ESAC,European Science Advisory Committee (for ALMA) |
128 | ESAC,European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA, Spain) |
129 | ESC,ELT Subcommittee |
130 | ESE,ELT Science and Engineering |
131 | ESM,European School Munich |
132 | ESO,European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere |
133 | ESOF,Euroscience Open Forum |
134 | ESON,ESO Science Outreach Network |
135 | ESPRESSO,Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet- and Stable Spectroscopic Observations |
136 | ESRC,ELT Standing Review Committee |
137 | ETF,ELT Technical Facility |
138 | EVALSO,Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-american Southern Observatories |
139 | EWASS,European Week of Astronomy and Space Science |
140 | ExA,Journal, Experimental Astronomy |
141 | ExTrA,(La Silla) Exoplanets in Transit and their Atmospheres |
142 | FC,Finance Committee |
143 | FDR,Final Design Review |
144 | FE IPT,Front-End Integrated Project Team (ALMA) |
145 | FE,Front End |
146 | FEA,Finite Element Analysis |
147 | FEED,Front-End Engineering Design (ELT) |
148 | FEIC,Front End Integration Centre (ALMA) |
149 | FEROS,Fibre-fed, Extended Range, Échelle Spectrograph (MPG/ESO 2.2-metre) |
150 | FIAT,Facility (for) Infrared Arrays Testing |
151 | FITS,Flexible Image Transport System |
152 | FLAMES,Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph (VLT) |
153 | FORS1,FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph (VLT)-1 |
154 | FORS2,FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph (VLT)-2 |
155 | FOS,Faint Object Spectrograph (HST) |
156 | FP,Fabry-Perot |
157 | FP6,Sixth EC Framework Programme |
158 | FP7,Seventh EC Framework Programme |
159 | FWHM,Full Width at Half Maximum |
160 | GALACSI,Ground Atmospheric Layer Adaptive Optics for Spectroscopic Imaging (AOF) |
161 | GIRAFFE,Fibre-fed multi-object spectrograph and part of the VLT FLAMES facility |
162 | GLAO,Ground Layer Adaptive Optics |
163 | gNLT,Garching Night Log Tool |
164 | GRAAL,GRound-layer Adaptive optics Assisted by Lasers (AOF) |
165 | GRAVITY,AO assisted, two-object, multiple-beam-combiner (VLTI) |
166 | GROND,Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (MPG/ESO 2.2-metre) |
167 | GTC,Gran Telescopio Canarias |
168 | GTO,Guaranteed Time for Observation |
169 | GWh,Gigawatt hours |
170 | GÉANT,European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes |
171 | H-LTAO,HARMONI Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics |
172 | H2020,(EU) Horizon 2020 Programme |
173 | HARMONI,Proposed first light integral field spectrograph for the ELT |
174 | HARPS,High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planetary Searcher (3.6-metre) |
175 | HAWK-I,High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager |
176 | HCI,Human Computer Interface |
177 | HIA,Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (Canada) |
178 | HIRES,(ELT) HIgh REsolution Spectrograph |
179 | HODM,High Order Deformable Mirror |
180 | HST,Hubble Space Telescope |
181 | HVAC,Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning |
182 | IAG,Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (Brazil) |
183 | IAS,International Accounting Standards |
184 | IAU,International Astronomical Union |
185 | Icar,Icarus, Planetary science journal, Planetary science journal |
186 | IFS,Integral Field Spectrograph (SPHERE, ELT) |
187 | IFU,Integral Field Unit |
188 | INAF,Italian National Institute for Astrophysics |
189 | INRIA,Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
190 | IPAG,Institut de Planetologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble |
191 | IPC,(Chilean) Índice de Precios al Consumidor |
192 | IPP,Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Germany) |
193 | IPSAS,International Public Sector Accounting Standards |
194 | IPT,Integrated Product Team (ALMA) |
195 | IR,Infrared |
196 | IRAM,Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique |
197 | IRDIS,InfraRed Dual-beam Imager and Spectrograph (SPHERE, ELT) |
198 | IRIS,VLTI Infrared Image Sensor |
199 | IRLOS,InfraRed Low Order Sensor |
200 | IRO,International Relations Office |
201 | ISAAC,Infrared Spectrometer And Array Camera (VLT) |
202 | ISERD,Israeli inter-ministerial agency for R&D cooperation with Europe |
203 | ISM,International Staff Member |
204 | ISS,International Space Station |
205 | IT,Information Technology |
206 | ITAR,International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
207 | ITER,International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
208 | IVOA,International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
209 | IVSLA,Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti |
210 | IYA2009,International Year of Astronomy 2009 |
211 | JAO,Joint ALMA Observatory |
212 | JENAM,Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting |
213 | JPL,Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
214 | JUICE,JUpiter ICy moons Explorer |
215 | JWST,James Webb Space Telescope |
216 | k,kilo/1,000 |
217 | KIDS,(VST) Kilo-Degree Survey |
218 | KMOS,K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (VLT) |
219 | KTS,Klaus Tschira Stiftung |
220 | Kueyan,VLT Unit Telescope 2 |
221 | LABOCA,Large APEX Bolometer CAmera |
222 | LAOG,Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble |
223 | LCS,Local Control System |
224 | LEO,Low Earth Orbit |
225 | LFC,Laser Frequency Comb |
226 | LGS,Laser Guide Star |
227 | LGSF,Laser Guide Star Facility |
228 | LMC,Large Magellanic Cloud |
229 | LMU,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
230 | LN2,Liquid nitrogen |
231 | LOFAR,Low Frequency Array |
232 | LOPS,Local Optical Phasing Sensor |
233 | LP,Large Programme |
234 | LPG,Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
235 | LPO,La Silla Paranal Observatory |
236 | LSM,Local Staff Members |
237 | LSP,La Silla Paranal Subcommittee |
238 | LTAO,Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics |
239 | LVSM,Large Visible Sensor Module |
240 | M#,Mirror # |
241 | M,million/1,000,000 |
242 | MACAO,Multiple Application Curvature Adaptive Optic |
243 | MACCON,Motion controller manufacturer |
244 | MAD,Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator |
245 | MAORY,(ELT) Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY |
246 | mas,milliarcseconds |
247 | MASCOT,Mini All-Sky Cloud Observation Tool (Paranal) |
248 | MATISSE,Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment (VLTI) |
249 | MCAO,Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics |
250 | Melipal,VLT Unit Telescope 3 |
251 | MELT,Minuscule ELT |
252 | MENLO systems,Optical equipment manufacturer |
253 | MERAC,Mobilising European Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology |
254 | MERIL,Mapping the European Research Infrastructure Landscape |
255 | METIS,Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph |
256 | MICADO,Adaptive optics imaging camera (ELT) |
257 | MIDI,Mid-infrared Interferometric Instrument (VLTI) |
258 | MIM,Museo Interactivo Mirador, Santiago |
259 | MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
260 | mmVLBI,Millimeter Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
261 | Mn,Mirror #n |
262 | MNRAS,Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
263 | MOAO,Multiple-Object Adaptive Optics |
264 | MOONS,Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph (VLT third generation) |
265 | MOS,(ELT) Multi-Object Spectroscopy |
266 | MOSAIC,(ELT) Multi-Object Spectrograph (Multi-Object Spectrograph for Astrophysics, Intergalactic medium studies and Cosmology) |
267 | MOSFIRE,Near-infrared multi-object spectrograph (Keck) |
268 | MPA,Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
269 | MPE,Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
270 | MPG,Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
271 | MPIA,Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
272 | MPIfR,Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Germany) |
273 | MS,Member State(s) |
274 | MTM,MT Mechatronics (European company of high technology, engineering and maintenance services) |
275 | MUSE,Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (VLT) |
276 | NACO,NAOS-CONICA (VLT) |
277 | NAOJ,National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
278 | NAOMI,Adaptive optics system for the ATs (VLTI) |
279 | NAOS,Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (VLT) |
280 | NASA,National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
281 | NAV,Navision |
282 | NDF,Non-Deliverable Forward Agreement |
283 | NEAR,New Earths in the Alpha Cen Region experiment |
284 | NEO,Near-Earth Object |
285 | NewA,Journal, New Astronomy |
286 | NewAR,Journal, New Astronomy Reviews |
287 | NFM,Narrow Field Mode |
288 | NGC,New General Catalogue |
289 | NGC,New General detector Controller |
290 | NGSD,Proposed large natural/laser guide star WFS detector (ELT) |
291 | NGTS,Next Generation Transit Survey |
292 | NINS,National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
293 | NIRPS,(NNT) Near Infra Red Planet Searcher |
294 | NOVA,The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie) |
295 | NRAO,National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
296 | NSF,National Science Foundation |
297 | NTT,New Technology Telescope |
298 | NUVA,Network for UltraViolet Astrophysics |
299 | OAA,Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory |
300 | OBAMA,Optical Bidule for Aberration Measurement on the ATs |
301 | OCA-NICE,Cote d’Azur Observatory (Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur) |
302 | ODG,Office of the Director General |
303 | OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
304 | OmegaCAM,Optical Camera for the VST |
305 | OPC,Observing Programmes Committee |
306 | OPO,Observing Programmes Office |
307 | OPTICON,Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy |
308 | OSF,ALMA Operations Support Facilities |
309 | OSO,Onsala Space Observatory |
310 | OT,Observing Tool |
311 | OTS,Operations Technical Support |
312 | P&SS,Journal, Planetary and Space Science |
313 | P2PP,Peer to Peer Protocol |
314 | P86,Observing Period 86 |
315 | P87,Observing Period 87 |
316 | PA,Product Assurance |
317 | PAC,Provisional Acceptance Chile |
318 | PACMAN,Fringe tracker for PRIMA (VLTI) |
319 | PAE,Provisional Acceptance Europe |
320 | PARLA,PAranal Raman Laser, replacement for PARSEC (VLTI) |
321 | PARSEC,Sodium line laser for VLT AO |
322 | PASJ,Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan |
323 | PASP,Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
324 | PDR,Preliminary Design Review |
325 | PESSTO,Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects |
326 | PFS,(ELT) Pre-Focal Station |
327 | PFS-A,(ELT) Pre-Focal Station for Nasmyth A |
328 | PhD,Doctor of Philosophy |
329 | PI,Principal Investigator |
330 | PIO,Public Information Officer |
331 | PIONIER,VLTI visitor instrument |
332 | PIP,Paranal Instrumentation Programme |
333 | PLC,Programmable Logic Controllers (ELT) |
334 | PMD,Project Management Department |
335 | PMPD,Performance Management and Professional Development |
336 | PRIMA,Phase-Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry facility (VLTI) |
337 | PSF,Point Spread Function |
338 | PTP,Precision Time Protocol |
339 | Q,Quarter |
340 | QSO,Quasi Stellar Object, quasar |
341 | QUEST,QUasar Equatorial Survey Team |
342 | R&D,Research and Development |
343 | RAB,Reflector Assembly Building |
344 | RAL,Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot (UK) |
345 | RCL,Radioastronomy Chajnantor Limitada |
346 | RedCLARA,Latin American Advanced Networks Cooperation (Academic data network in Latin America) |
347 | REM,Rapid Eye Mount Telescope (La Silla) |
348 | REUNA,Red Universitaria Nacional (Academic data network in Chile) |
349 | RM,Rossiter-McClaughlin (effect) |
350 | RMN,Reflective Memory Network (VLTI) |
351 | rms,Root Mean Square |
352 | SABOCA,Shortwave Apex BOlometer Camera |
353 | SAC,EURO-VO Science Advisory Committee |
354 | SAF,Science Archive Facility |
355 | SAFRAN-REOSC,High performance optics company |
356 | SAPHIRA,Detector for the GRAVITY wavefront sensor |
357 | SAXO,SPHERE’S AO system (VLT) |
358 | SCAO,Single-conjugate adaptive optics |
359 | SCO,Santiago Central Office (ALMA/ESO Vitacura) |
360 | SDD,Software Development Division |
361 | SDSS,Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
362 | SEPIA,Swedish ESO PI receiver for APEX |
363 | SHFI,Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument |
364 | SiC,(ELT) SiliconCarbide-mirrorsubstrate |
365 | SINFONI,Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared (VLT) |
366 | SKA,Square Kilometer Array |
367 | SM,Service Mode (observing) |
368 | SM4,Servicing Mission 4 (HST) |
369 | SOFI,SOn oF Isaac (NTT) |
370 | SOPHIE,Spectrographe pour l’Observation des Phénomènes des Intérieurs stellaires et des Exoplanètes |
371 | SOXS,(NTT) Son Of X-Shooter |
372 | SPARTA,Real-time computer for the AOF |
373 | SPC,Scientific Personnel Committee |
374 | SPECULOOS,(Paranal) Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars |
375 | SPHERE,Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research instrument (VLT) |
376 | SPIFFI,SPectrometer for Infrared Faint Field Imaging |
377 | SPT,South Pole Telescope |
378 | SSDF,Science Support Discretionary Fund |
379 | SSED,Software System Engineering Department |
380 | SSWG,Science Strategy Working Group |
381 | ST-ECF,Space Telescope European Coordination Facility |
382 | STC,Scientific Technical Committee |
383 | STFC,Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) |
384 | STRAP,Tip-tilt sensors (VLTI) |
385 | STScI,Space Telescope Science Institute (USA) |
386 | sub-mm,submillimetre |
387 | SUSI2,Superb Seeing Imager 2 (NTT) |
388 | TAROT,Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires |
389 | TAROT-S,Télescopes à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires South |
390 | TBT,Test-Bed Telescope |
391 | TEC,Technology Division |
392 | telbib,ESO library telescope bibliography database |
393 | TFB,Tunable Filter Bank (ALMA) |
394 | TIMMI,TIMMI far-infrared camera (ESO 3.6-metre telescope) |
395 | ToO,Target of Opportunity |
396 | TRAPPIST,TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope |
397 | TRR,Test Readiness Review |
398 | TUM,Technische Universität München |
399 | UC,Users Committee |
400 | UK ATC,UK Astronomy Technology Centre |
401 | Ultracam,High-speed camera (VLT) |
402 | UltraVISTA,Ultra-deep near-infrared survey in the COSMOS field |
403 | UNCOPUOS,United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
404 | USM,University Observatory Munich |
405 | UT,Unit Telescope of the VLT |
406 | UT1–4,VLT Unit Telescopes 1–4: Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun |
407 | UV,UltraViolet |
408 | UVES,UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph (VLT) |
409 | VAT,Value Added Tax |
410 | VERTEX,(APEX) VERTEX Antennentechnik GmbH, Duisburg (Germany) |
411 | VHS,VISTA Hemisphere Survey |
412 | VIDEO,VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations Survey |
413 | VIKING,VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy survey |
414 | VIMOS,VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph (VLT) |
415 | VINCI,VLT INterferometer Commissioning Instrument (VLTI) |
416 | VIPERS,VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey |
417 | VIRCAM,VISTA Infrared Camera |
418 | VISA,VLTI Sub-Array |
419 | VISIR,VLT Mid-Infrared Imager Spectrometer |
420 | VISTA,Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy |
421 | VLT,Very Large Telescope |
422 | VLT/I,Very Large Telescope and its Interferometer |
423 | VLTI,Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
424 | VLTI-PR#,VLTI projects |
425 | VM,Visitor Mode (observing) |
426 | VMC,VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system |
427 | VO,Virtual Observatory |
428 | VOP,Virtual Observatory Project Office |
429 | VPHAS+,VST Photometric Hα Survey |
430 | VSS,Variability Sky Survey |
431 | VST,VLT Survey Telescope |
432 | VVDS,VIMOS VLT Deep Survey |
433 | VVV,ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea |
434 | WASP,Wide Angle Search for Planets survey |
435 | WFCAM,Infrared wide field camera for the UK Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea |
436 | WFI,Wide Field Imager (MPG/ESO 2.2-metre) |
437 | WiFi,Wireless Fidelity |
438 | WVR,Water Vapour Radiometer (ALMA) |
439 | X-shooter,Wideband ultraviolet-infrared single target spectrograph (VLT) |
440 | XAO,Extreme adaptive optics |
441 | XMM-Newton,X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite (ESA) |
442 | Yepun,VLT Unit Telescope 4 |
443 | Z-Spec,Millimetre-wave spectrograph (APEX visitor instrument) |
444 | zCOSMOS,Large Programme to measure 30 000 galaxies in the HST Cosmic Origins field |
445 | ZIMPOL,Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (SPHERE, ELT) |
446 | ΛCDM,Lambda Cold Dark Matter |
447 | μm,Micrometre |