New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment (2016)
Chapter: Appendix C: Acronyms
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"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
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Acronyms
| AAAC | Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee |
| AAG | Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grant |
| ACT | Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
| ACTA | Atmospheric erenkov Telescope Array |
| ACTpol | Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarization sensitive receiver |
| ADAP | Astrophysics Data Analysis Program |
| ADMX | Axion Dark Matter Experiment |
| AdvACT | Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
| AFTA | Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets |
| AGILE | Astro-Rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero |
| AGIS | Advanced Gamma ray Imaging System |
| ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter Array |
| AMS | Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer |
| ANITA | Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna |
| AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
| APOGEE | Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment |
| APRA | Astronomy and Physics Research and Analysis |
| APS | Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences |
| ARA | Askaryan Radio Array |
| ARIANNA | Antarctic Ross Iceshelf Antenna Neutrino Array |
| ART-XC | Astronomical Roentgen Telescope X-ray Concentrator |
| ASAS-SN | All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae |
| ATI | Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
| ATP | Astrophysics Theory Program |
| AU | Astronomical Unit |
| AUI | Associated Universites, Inc. |
BAO | baryon acoustic oscillation |
| BICEP | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization |
| BigBOSS | Big Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey |
| BOSS | Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey |
CAA | Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| CALET | CALorimetric Electron Telescope |
| CARMA | Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy |
| CASS | Cranfield Astrobiological Stratospheric Sampling |
| CATE | Cost and Technical Evaluation |
| CCAT | Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope |
| CCD | charge-coupled device |
| CMB | Cosmic microwave background |
| CSO | Caltech Submillimeter Observatory |
| CTA | Cerenkov Telescope Array |
DES | Dark Energy Survey |
| DESI | Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument |
| DKIST | Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DRM | Design Reference Mission |
| DSIAC | Decadal Survey Implementation Advisory Committee |
EBEX | E and B Experiment |
| eBOSS | Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey |
| E-ELT | European Extremely Large Telescope |
| EHT | Event Horizon Telescope |
| eLISA | Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
| ELT | Extremely Large Telescope |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESO | European Southern Observatory |
FASR | Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope |
| FAST | Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer |
| FY | fiscal year |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
| GBT | Green Bank Telescope |
| GMT | Giant Magellan Telescope |
| GO | Guest Observer |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GSMT | Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope |
| GUSTO | Gal/Xray U/LDB Spectroscopic Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory |
HAWC | High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory |
| HEPAP | High Energy Physics Advisory Panel |
| HERA | Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array |
| HESS | High Energy Stereoscopic System |
| HSC | Subaru Hyper-Suprime Camera |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
IDRM | Interim Design Reference Mission |
| IFU | integral field unit |
| IPTD | Inflation Probe Technology Development |
| ISG | Infrastructure Study Group |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ISS-CREAM | ISS-Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass |
| IXO | International X-ray Observatory |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JDEM-Omega | Joint Dark Energy Mission Omega |
| JUICE | JUpiter ICy moons Explorer |
| JVLA | Jansky Very Large Array (formerly the VLA) |
| JWST | James Webb Space Telescope |
KAGRA | Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector |
| KDP-A | Key Decision Point A |
| KPNO | Kitt Peak National Observatory |
LBO | Long Baseline Observatory |
| LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
| LIGO | Advanced Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory |
| LISA | Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
| LiteBIRD | Light [Lite] satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection |
| LMT | Large Millimeter Telescope |
| LPF | LISA Pathfinder |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
| LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| LTSA | Long Term Space Astrophysics |
| LUX-ZEPLIN | Large Underground Xenon-ZonEd Proportional scintillation in LIquid Noble gases |
MAGIC | Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Observatory |
| MIDEX | Medium-Class Explorer |
| MoO | Mission of Opportunity |
| MREFC | Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction |
| MSIP | Mid-Scale Innovations Program |
| MWA | Murchison Widefield Array |
NANOGrav | North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASA-APD | NASA Astrophysics Division |
| NICER | Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer |
| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSF-AST | NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences |
| NSF-PHY | NSF Division of Physics |
| NuSTAR | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array |
| NWNH | New Worlds, New Horizons |
| NWTD | New Worlds Technology Development |
OIR | Optical and Infrared Astronomy |
| ORM | Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
| OSS | Origins of Solar Systems |
P5 | Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel |
| PAMELA | Payload for Antimatter/Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics |
| Pan-STARRS | Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System |
| PAPER | Precision Array to Probe Epoch of Reionization |
| PI | principal investigator |
| PIPER | Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer |
| PPP | Project Prioritization Panels |
| PRAXyS | Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
| PTF | Palomar Transient Factory |
ReSTAR | Renewing Small Telescopes |
| RFI | Request for Information |
SAT | Strategic Astrophysics Technology |
| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| SDT | Science Definition Team |
| SFP | Science Frontier Panel |
| SKA | Square Kilometer Array |
| SMEX | Small Explorer |
| SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
| SPHEREx | all-sky near IR spectral survey |
| SPICA | Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
| SPT | South Pole Telescope |
| SPT3G | South Pole Telescope 3rd Generation |
| SPTpol | South Pole Telescope polarization instrument |
| SQUID | Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices |
| Super-CDMS | Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search |
| Super-TIGER | Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder |
TA | Telescope Array |
| TCAN | Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks |
| TESS | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite |
| TMT | Thirty Meter Telescope |
| TRL | technology readiness level |
| TSIP | Telescope Systems Instrumentation Program |
URO | University Radio Observatories |
| UV | ultraviolet |
VERITAS | Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System |
| VLA | Very Large Array |
| VLBA | Very Long Baseline Array |
| VLT | Very Large Telescope |
WFC3 | Wide Field Camera 3 |
| WFIRST | Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope |
| WIMP | weakly interacting massive particle |
| WIYN | Wisconsin/Indiana/Yale/NOAO Telescope |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/23560.
| WMAP | Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
XMM | NASA’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission |
| XMM-Newton | European Space Agency’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission |
| XRP | Exoplanet Research Program (formerly OSS) |
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