Appendix C: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
A table of acronyms used in this document.
ACIS | Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer |
ACS | Advanced Camera for Surveys |
APT | Astronomer’s Proposal Tool |
AR | Archival Research |
ATP | Astrophysics Theory Program |
AURA | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. |
CADC | Canadian Astronomy Data Centre |
CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
Co-I | Co-Investigator |
COS | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph |
CPAR | Coordinated Parallel Observation |
CS | Contact Scientist |
CVZ | Continuous Viewing Zone |
CXC | Chandra X-ray Center |
DD | Director’s Discretionary |
DEC | Declination |
DUP | Duplicate Observation |
EDT | Eastern (U.S.) Daylight Time |
E/PO | Education/Public Outreach |
ERS | Early Release Science |
ESA | European Space Agency |
EST | Eastern (U.S.) Standard Time |
FGS | Fine Guidance Sensor(s) |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
FUV | Far Ultraviolet |
GO | General Observer |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GTO | Guaranteed Time Observer |
HDF | Hubble Deep Field |
HLA | Hubble Legacy Archive |
HOPR | Hubble Observation Problem Report |
HRC | High Resolution Channel (on ACS) or High Resolution Camera (on Chandra) |
HSC | Hubble Source Catalogs |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| HSLA | Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive |
HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
IDEAS | Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science |
IR | Infrared |
LOW | Low Sky Background |
MAMA | Multi-Anode Microchannel Array |
MAST | Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes |
MCP | Micro-Channel Plate |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NICMOS | Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer |
NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| NOIRLab | National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory |
NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
NUV | Near Ultraviolet |
NVO | National Virtual Observatory |
OS | Observation Summary |
PAEC | Planned and Archived Exposures Catalog |
PC | Planetary Camera or Program Coordinator |
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PI | Principal Investigator |
PPAR | Pure Parallel Observation |
RA | Right Ascension |
SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly |
SBC | Solar Blind Channel |
SHD | Shadow Time |
SM | Servicing Mission |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SNAP | Snapshot |
SSC | Spitzer Science Center |
STAC | Space Telescope Advisory Committee |
ST-ECF | Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility |
STIS | Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute |
STSDAS | Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software |
| STUC | Space Telescope Users Committee |
TAC | Telescope Allocation Committee |
| TESS | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite |
TOO | Target of Opportunity |
U.S. | United States |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
UV | Ultraviolet |
WFC | Wide Field Channel (on ACS) |
WFC3 | Wide Field Camera 3 |
WF/PC | Wide Field and Planetary Camera 1 |
WFPC2 | Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 |
XDL | Cross Delay Line |