Portals to the Universe: The NASA Astronomy Science Centers (2007)
Chapter: Appendix D Acronyms
D
Acronyms
2MASS Two Micron All Sky Survey
ADS Astrophysics Data System
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array
APT Astronomer’s Proposal Tool
ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
CLEA Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy
CXC Chandra X-ray Center
CXO Chandra X-ray Observatory
EPO education and public outreach
ESA European Space Agency
EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
FITS Flexible Imaging Transport System
FTE full-time equivalent
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer
GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GOF guest observer facility
GOODS Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HOU Hands-on Universe project
HST Hubble Space Telescope
IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
IRAC Infrared Array Camera
IRAF Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRAS Infrared Astronomy Satellite
IRSA Infrared Science Archive
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JWST James Webb Space Telescope
MAST Multimission Archive at Space Telescope Science Institute
MSC Michelson Science Center
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NED NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
NVO National Virtual Observatory
PI principal investigator
PROS Post-reduction Offline Software
ROSAT Roentgen satellite
RPS Remote Proposal System
RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SIM Space Interferometry Mission
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility
SPOT Spitzer Planning Observation Tool
SSC Spitzer Science Center
SST Spitzer Space Telescope
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
VO Virtual Observatory
XMM–Newton X-ray Multimirror Mission–Newton
