A Performance Assessment of NASA's Astrophysics Program (2007)

Chapter: Appendix: Acronyms

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Appendix
Acronyms

AANM Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium

ACS Advanced Camera for Surveys

ARISE Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth

CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer

CMB Cosmic microwave background

COBE Cosmic Background Explorer

Con-X Constellation-X-ray Observatory

COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

CPU Committee on the Physics of the Universe

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

ESA European Space Agency

EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer

EXIST Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope

FBC Faster, better, cheaper

FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer

GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

GRB Gamma-ray burst

HETE-2 High Energy Transient Explorer mission

HST Hubble Space Telescope

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JDEM Joint Dark Energy Mission

JWST Next Generation Space Telescope, now known as the James Webb Space Telescope

LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

LSST Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope

MIDEX Medium-class Explorer

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer

NRC National Research Council

NSF National Science Foundation

NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

OAT Office of Aerospace Technology

Q2C Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

RHESSI Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

SAFIR Single-aperture Far Infrared Observatory

SDO Solar Dynamics Observer

SEU Structure and Evolution of the Universe

SIM SIM PlanetQuest (formerly called the Space Interferometry Mission)

SMD Science Mission Directorate

SMEX Small Explorer Program

SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

Spitzer Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility)

STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

Swift Multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst science

TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder

WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

WFC3 Wide Field Camera 3 (HST)

WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

XTE X-ray Timing Explorer

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