This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy. Most are drawn from professional astronomy, and are used quite frequently in scientific publications. A few are frequently used by the general public or by
amateur astronomers.
The acronyms listed below were placed into one or more of these categories:
ApJS – (publication) Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
APM – (instrumentation/catalog), Automatic plate measuring machine, a machine for making measurements from photographic plates; also, a catalog based on measurements by the machine
ASIAA – (organization) Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
ASKAP – (telescope) Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a next-generation
radio telescope under construction in Western Australia. It differs from previous radio-telescopes in having many
pixels at the
focus of each
antenna.
ASP – (organization) Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ASTRO – (spacecraft) Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations
ATA – (telescope) Allen Telescope Array, a radio
interferometer array developed by the
SETI Institute to search for possible signals from extraterrestrial life
ATCA – (telescope) Australia Telescope Compact Array
ATLAS – (observing program) Australia Telescope Large Area Survey, a deep
radio astronomicalsky survey of two
SWIRE fields covering a total of about 7 square degrees of sky.
CDIMP – (catalog) Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
CDM – (astrophysics terminology) Cold Dark Matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that characterize "cold" particles such as
WIMPs as
dark matter
CDS – (organization) Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
CELT – (telescope) – California Extremely Large Telescope, an older name for the Thirty Meter Telescope
CEMP – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor, a type of
carbon star
CEMP-no – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with no enhancement of elements produced by the
r-process or
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-r – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by
r-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-s – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-r/s – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by both
r-process and
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEP – (celestial object) CEPheid, a type of pulsating
variable star
CEPS – (organization) Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
CSBN – (organization) Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature
CSE – (celestial object) circumstellar envelope, a roughly spherical
planetary nebula formed from dense stellar wind if not present before the formation of a star.
CSI – (catalog) Catalog of Stellar Identification, a compilation of the catalogs,
BD,
CD, and
CPD
DNS – (celestial object) double
neutron star, another name for a binary neutron star system. [Caution: Do not confuse with DNS relating to DENIS – Deep Near Infrared Survey].
DOG – (celestial object)
dust-obscured
galaxy, a galaxy with an unusually high ratio of infrared-to-optical emission, implying strong dust absorption and re-emission.[4]
GEM – (observing program) Galileo Europa Mission, the science observation program of
Europa performed by the
Galileo spacecraft
GEM – (observing program) Giotto Extended Mission, the extended operations of the
Giotto spacecraft
GEMS – (organization) Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Study
GEMS – (survey) Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions
GEMSS – (organization) Global Exoplanet M-dwarf Search-Survey, a search for
exoplanets around m-dwarf stars
GEODDS – (telescope) Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance, a network of telescopes used in a
United States Air Force program for observing
space junk
GEOS – (organization) Groupe Européen Observations Stellaires, an amateur and professional association for study of variable stars.
GERLUMPH – (instrumentation) GPU-Enabled, High Resolution MicroLensing Parameter survey, where GPU is an acronym for Graphics Processing Unit.
GH – (catalog) Giclas Hyades, a catalog of stars in the
Hyades cluster
GROSCE – (telescope) Gamma Ray Burst Optical Counterparts Search Experiment, an automated telescope used to detect the optical counterparts to
gamma ray bursts
GRS – (instrumentation) Gamma Ray Spectrometer, an instrument on the
Mars Observer
GRS – (celestial object) Great Red Spot, a feature in the clouds of
Jupiter
HASI – (instrumentation) Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument, an instrument on the
Huygens probe
HB – (celestial object) horizontal branch, a type of evolved
red giant star in which helium is burned in the core and hydrogen is burned in a shell around the core
HBRP – (celestial object) High-magnetic field radio pulsar
HBV – (catalog) Hamburg–Bergedorf Variables, a catalog of
variable stars
HBMM – (astrophysics terminology) Hydrogen-burning minimum mass
HDE – (catalog) Henry Draper Extension, a catalog of stars
HDF – (data/celestial object) Hubble Deep Field, an area of the sky with little foreground obscuration that was observed deeply with the
Hubble Space Telescope; also the name for the data product itself
HEAO – (telescope) High Energy Astronomical Observatory, a series of
X-ray and
gamma ray space telescopes
HEASARC – (organization) High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, a
NASA organization that deals with
X-ray and
gamma ray telescope data
HerMES - (observing program) Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey, a legacy survey of star forming galaxies using the SPIRE and PACS instrument of
Herschel
HESS – (telescope) High Energy Stereoscopic System, a telescope for detecting
cosmic rays
HIP – (catalog) HIPPARCOS, the catalog of data produced by
Hipparcos
HIPASS – (Observing program) HI Parkes All-Sky Survey, survey of
HI sources
HIPPARCOS – (telescope) HIgh Precision PARallax COllecting Satellite, a space telescope specifically designed to measure distances to stars using
parallax
HISA – (astrophysical terminology) HI self-absorption region
HIRAX – (telescope) Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment, an interferometric array of 1024 6-meter (20ft) diameter radio telescopes to be built in South Africa
HK – (catalog) Survey for metal-poor stars based on the strength of CaII H and K absorption lines
HTRA – (astrophysics terminology) High time-resolution astrophysics, the observations of phenomena that vary on timescales of one second or less
HUT – (telescope) Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, an ultraviolet telescope that operated from the cargo bay of the
Space Shuttle
HVC – (celestial object) high-velocity cloud, an interstellar cloud with a velocity that is too high to be explained by galactic rotation
HXD – (instrumentation) Hard X-ray Detector, an instrument on the
Suzaku space telescope
HVS – (celestial object) hypervelocity star or high velocity star
I
IAC – (organization) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
IAPPP – (organization) International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAS – (organization) Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
IASY – (observing program) International Active Sun Year, the name given to a series of coordinated
Sun-related observational programs performed in 1969 and 1971
IAU – (organization) International Astronomical Union
ICRF – (astrophysics terminology) International Celestial Reference Frame, a coordinate system based on radio sources used to define the locations of objects in the sky
ICRS – (astrophysics terminology) International Celestial Reference System, a coordinate system based on
Hipparcos observations used to define the locations of objects in the sky
IDA – (organization) International Dark-Sky Association, an organization that seeks to control
light pollution
IDP – (celestial object) Interplanetary Dust Particle, dust particles around planets or planetary bodies
IEO – (astrophysics terminology) inner-Earth object, the orbits of
asteroids
IERS – (organization) International Earth Rotation geophysical Service or International Earth rotation and Reference systems Service, an organization that monitors the Earth's orientation with respect to the radio sources used to define the
ICRF
IFN – (celestial object) integrated flux nebulae, dust and gas outside the plane of the Milky Way, which are thus illuminated by the entire galaxy as opposed to a nearby star or stars
IGR – (catalog) Integral Gamma-Ray source, a catalog based on observations by the
INTEGRAL telescope
IGY – (observing program) International Geophysical Year, the name given to a series of coordinated geophysical and astronomical observation programs performed in 1957 and 1958
IHW – (organization) International Halley Watch, an organization created to coordinate observations of
Halley's Comet in 1986
ILOM – (spacecraft) In-situ Lunar Orientation Measurement, a mission to measure variations in the orientation of the
Moon from the Moon's surface
IOTA – (organization) International Occultation Timing Association, an organization for monitoring
occultations
IPAC – (organization) Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
IPMO – (celestial object) Isolated Planetary Mass Objects, another name for isolated
planemos or
sub-brown dwarfs
IQSY – (observing program) International Quiet Sun Year, the name given to a series of coordinated
Sun-related observational programs performed in 1964 and 1965
ISEE – (spacecraft) International Sun-Earth Explorer, a series of spacecraft designed to study the effects of the
Sun on the Earth's space environment and magnetosphere
ISGRI – (instrumentation) – INTEGRAL Soft Gamma-Ray Imager, an instrument on the
INTEGRAL satellite
ISTeC – (organization) International Small Telescope Cooperative
ISY – (observing program/meeting) International Space Year, the name given to a celebration of space exploration as well as a series of coordinated astronomical observations and a series of meetings to plan future astronomy research efforts
ITA – (organization) Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, one of three organizations that was combined to form the
Institute of Astronomy
IUCAA – (organization) Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics - Pune, India
IUE – (telescope) International Ultraviolet Explorer, an
ultraviolet space telescope
IUEDAC – (organization) IUE satellite Data Analysis Center
IWCA – (meeting) International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy
LAD-C – (instrumentation) Large Area Debris Collector, a canceled program that was to collect and catalog low orbital dust on the
International Space Station
LAEFF – (organization) Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental, a Spanish astronomy research organization
LAL – (catalog) LALande, a historical catalog of
stars
LAMOST – (telescope) Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope
LANL – (organization) Los Alamos National Laboratory
LF – (astrophysics terminology) luminosity function, the spatial density of objects such as
star clusters and
galaxies as a function of their
luminosity
LFT – (catalog) Luyten Five-Tenths, a catalog of
stars with
proper motions exceeding 0.5"
LGA – (instrumentation) low-gain antenna
LGM – (celestial object) Little Green Men, a humorous name applied to
pulsars soon after their discovery
LHEA – (organization) Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
LHS – (catalog) Luyten Half-Second, a catalog of
stars with
proper motions exceeding 0.5"
LIC – (celestial object) Local Interstellar Cloud, the cloud in the
interstellar medium through which the
Solar System is currently moving
LIGO – (telescope) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, an instrument for detecting
gravitational waves
LINEAR – (observing program) Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
LMXB – (celestial object) low-mass x-ray binary, an
X-ray-luminous
binary star system in which one of the stars is a
neutron star or
black hole that is stripping material away from the other star in the system
LPI – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Institute
LPL – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, the planetary science department of the
University of Arizona
LPV – (celestial object) Long Period Variable, a type of
variable star that changes in brightness slowly over time
LRG – (celestial object) luminous red galaxy, a dataset of galaxies from the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey that were selected on the basis of their red colors
LSR – (astrophysics terminology) local standard of rest, the frame of reference with a
velocity equal to the average velocity of all the
stars in the solar neighborhood, including the
Sun
LSST – (telescope) Legacy Survey of Space and Time
LST – (astrophysics terminology) local sidereal time, the
right ascension that is currently at the
zenith
M – (celestial object) Mira, a class of long period pulsating
variable stars named after
Mira, the archetype for the class
MAC – (observing program) Multi-instrument Aircraft Campaign, a program to study the cometary dust from the
Leonidsmeteor showers
MACHO – (celestial object/observing program/catalog) MAssive Compact Halo Object, an object in the
Milky Way's
halo thought to comprise part of the galaxy's
dark matter; also a survey to detect these sources through
gravitational lensing and the catalog of sources detected by the survey
MASER – (astrophysics terminology) microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, microwave emission that is similar to the optical emission from a
laser
MECO – (celestial object) magnetospheric eternally collapsing object, a type of object proposed as an alternative to
supermassive black holes as the central compact source within
active galactic nuclei
MEGARA – (instrumentation) Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias
MEPAG – (organization) Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group
MEPCO – (meeting) Meeting of European Planetary and Cometary Observers
MOA – (observing program) Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, a survey searching for
gravitational lenses
MOC – (instrumentation) Mars Observer Camera, an instrument on the
Mars Observer
MOID – (astrophysics terminology) minimum orbit intersection distance, the minimum distance between two objects' orbital paths
MOLA – (instrumentation) Mars Observer Laser Altimeter, an instrument on the
Mars Observer used to study
Mars's
topology
MOND – (astrophysics terminology) modified Newtonian dynamics
MONS – (telescope) Measuring Oscillations in Nearby Stars, a Danish space telescope that was proposed and designed but not built[6]
MOST – (telescope) Microvariability and Oscillations of STars, a space telescope designed to detect oscillations in the atmospheres of stars and
extrasolar planetss in orbit around other stars
MOST – (telescope) Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, an Australian
radio telescope
MOTIF – (telescope) Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
MOXE – (instrumentation) Monitoring X-ray Experiment, an
X-ray all-sky monitor designed for the
Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite
MPC – (publication) Minor Planet Circulars (also called Minor Planets and Comets)
MPEC – (publication) Minor Planet Electronic Circular
MRI – (astrophysics term) magnetorotational instability, a local instability in the accretion disks which only requires weak magnetic field and dΩ2/dR<0
NESS – (telescope) Near Earth Space Surveillance, a telescope for observing
near-Earth asteroids
NESSI – (organization) Near Earth Space Surveillance Initiative, a collaboration planning to use a ground-based telescope to observe
near-Earth asteroids
NIRCam – (Instrument), Near-Infrared Camera, an instrument on James Webb Telescope
NIRSpec – (instrument) Near-Infrared Spectrograph, an instrument on James Webb Telerscope
NIST – (organization) National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLAGN – (celestial object) Narrow-Line
AGN, classified based on lack of broadened emission or absorption lines in spectra
NLR – (astrophysics term) the Narrow Line Region of the
AGN
NLTE – (astrophysics terminology) non-local thermodynamic equilibrium, situations where the temperature, pressure, etc. of a system are not in equilibrium
OAO – (observatory) Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, in Japan
OAO – (telescope) Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, a series of satellites with astronomical instruments that operated in the 1970s
OC – (celestial object) open cluster, a cluster of stars
OCA – (organization) Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
OCO – (celestial object) Oort Cloud Object, an object (usually a
comet) in the
Oort cloud
OGLE – (observing program/catalog) Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, an observing program to survey the sky for
microlensing events; also the catalog of sources produced by the project
BLG – (catalog) BuLGe, used to designate a source detected in the direction of the bulge of the
Milky Way
TR – (catalog) TRansit, used to designate a potential observation of a
microlensing event caused by a transiting star
OPAG – (organization) Outer Planets Assessment Group, a group established by NASA that provides advice on
Solar System exploration
ORFEUS – (telescope) Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer, an
ultraviolet space telescope that could be released and later retrieved by the
Space Shuttle
OSIRIS-REx – Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer
PCAS – (observing program) Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
PDBI – (telescope) Plateau de Bure Interferometer, a radio telescope
PDR – a photodissociation region or photon-dominated region (both terms are used synonymously); a region in the neutral
ISM in which far-ultraviolet photons dominate the heating and chemistry
PDS – is a distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System missions.
PEP – (instrumentation) PhotoElectric Photometry, an observing technique using
photometers
PEPE – (instrumentation) Plasma Experiment for Planetary Exploration, an instrument on
Deep Space 1
POSSUM – Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism
PPARC – (organization) Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, a major government-sponsored science agency in the United Kingdom, merged into the
Science and Technology Facilities Council in 2007
PPM – (catalog) Positions and Proper Motions, a catalog of the positions and
proper motions of
stars
PPN – (celestial object) proto-planetary nebula, an object that has partially evolved from a
red giant to a
planetary nebula
PRE – (astrophysics terminology) photospheric radius expansion
PSF – (instrumentation) Point Spread Function, a function that describes the blurring of a point source that is caused by the optics of the telescope and instrument (as well as other effects)
RLOF – (astrophysics terminology) Roche Lobe Overflow, the result of when an object in a binary system is larger than its
roche lobe (i.e. when an object in a binary system expands to a radius where tidal forces become stronger than gravitational forces)
RLQ – (celestial object) radio loud
quasar, a
quasar that produces strong radio emission
ROSAT – (telescope) ROentgen SATellite, an
X-ray space telescope
ROTSE – (observing program/telescope) Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment, an observing program for detecting the optical counterparts of
gamma ray bursts; also the telescopes used in this program
RQQ – (celestial object) radio-quiet
quasara
quasar that produces weak radio emission
RRAT – (celestial object) rotating radio transient, a population of rotating
neutron stars that produce periodic bursts of emission that are separated by intervals of minutes or hours
RRL – (celestial object) RR Lyrae, a class of pulsating
variable stars named after
RR Lyrae, the archetype of the class
also RR
RSA – (catalog) Revised Shapley-Ames, a catalog of nearby
galaxies
SAAO – (organization) South African Astronomical Observatory
SALT – (telescope) Southern African Large Telescope
SAF – (organization) Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society)
SAM – (astrophysics terminology) Semi-Analytic Modeling, models that draw on numerical and analytical methods to model dark matter evolution in galaxies
SAO – (organization/catalog) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the name of astrophysics research organization associated with
Harvard University; also a catalog of
stars
SARA – (organization) Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
SAS – (software) Science Analysis Software, a software package used for processing data from the
XMM-Newton Observatory
SBIG – (organization/instrumentation) Santa Barbara Instrument Group, the name of both a company that manufactures telescope equipment and the company's products
SBNC – (organization) Small Bodies Names Committee, an older name for the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature
SCP – (observing program) Supernova Cosmology Project, a project to measure the expansion of the
universe using
supernovae at high
redshifts
SCR – (observing program) SuperCOSMOS-RECONS, a survey that measured the
proper motions of
stars
SCT – (telescope) Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope, a general name for a type of compact telescope that uses both lenses and mirrors
SCUBA – (instrumentation) Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array, a submillimeter imager formerly at the
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
SCUBA-2 – (instrumentation) Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2, a submillimeter imager that will replace
SCUBA
sd – (celestial object) subdwarf, stars fainter than
main-sequence stars with the same colors; often used as a prefix to a star's
spectral type
SIM – (telescope) Space Interferometry Mission, a planned optical space telescope that will be used to measure distances to
stars
SIMBAD – (software) Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data, a website that provides catalog data on astronomical objects
SINGG – (observing program) Survey of Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies, a survey of star formation in nearby galaxies selected by gas rich galaxies using H-alpha and ultraviolet observations
SIPS – (observing program/catalog) Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey, a program to identify
stars with high
proper motions at
infrared wavelengths
SIRTF – (telescope) Space InfraRed Telescope Facility or Shuttle InfraRed Telescope Facility, older names for the
Spitzer Space Telescope
SNU – (astrophysics terminology) solar neutrino units
SOARD – (software) Steward Observatory Asteroid Relational Database
SOFIA – (telescope) Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an
infrared telescope currently under construction that will fly inside a modified
Boeing 747 aircraft
SOHO – (telescope) SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory, a solar space telescope
SPARTAN – (telescope) Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for AstroNomy, an
ultraviolet space telescope that can be released and retrieved by the
Space Shuttle
SPS – (spacecraft) solar power satellite, a general name for proposed satellites that would convert solar power into energy and then beam the energy to the surface of a planet (such as Earth) in the form of
microwaves
SPS – (astrophysical terminology) stellar population synthesis
SST – (telescope) Spitzer Space Telescope, a space telescope
STARSMOG – (observing program) STarlight Absorption Reduction through a Survey of Multiple Occulting Galaxies, a survey using
Hubble Space Telescope imaging
SWAN – (instrumentation) Solar Wind ANisotropy, an instrument on
SOHO
SWAS – (telescope) Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite, a
submillimeter space telescope
SWEEPS – (observing program) – Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, a survey of a subsection of the plane of the
Milky Way performed with the
Hubble Space Telescope
TAI – (astrophysics terminology) International Atomic Time
TAMS – (astrophysics terminology) terminal-age
main sequence, stars at the point in their lifetimes where they have finished burning
hydrogen in their cores
TAROT – (telescope) Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires
TCG – (astrophysics terminology) Geocentric Coordinate Time
TDB – (astrophysics terminology) Barycentric Dynamical Time
TDRSS – (communications network) Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, an array of
satellites used by
NASA to communicate with many spacecraft in low Earth orbit
TESS - (spacecraft) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, NASA: an all-sky survey mission that will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. TESS launched 18 April 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
TEP – (organization) Transits of Extrasolar Planets
TRGB - (celestial object) - Tip of the Red-Giant Branch stars, a primary distance indicator
VLBA – (telescope) Very Long Baseline Array, a radio telescope operated by the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory with antennas spread across the United States
VLBI – (instrumentation) very long baseline interferometry, combining signals from multiple telescopes/radio antennas that are separated by large distances
VLM – (astrophysics terminology) very low mass, objects (usually
stars) that have relatively low masses
VLT – (telescope) Very Large Telescope, four 8.2 meter telescopes in
Chile that operate either independently as individual telescopes or together as an
interferometer
WDM – (astrophysics terminology) warm dark matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that characterizes "hot" particles such as
neutrinos as
dark matter
WDS – (catalog) Washington Double Star, a catalog of
double stars
WEBT – (organization) Whole Earth Blazar Telescope, a network of observers across the Earth who work together to perform continuous observations of
blazars
WET – (organization) Whole Earth Telescope, a network of astronomers spread across the Earth who work together to perform continuous observations of
variable stars
WIMP – (celestial object) Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, a hypothetical subatomic particle that may comprise most of the dark matter in the universe
ZAHB – (celestial object) "zero-age"
horizontal branch, horizontal branch stars that have just begun burning helium in their cores and hydrogen in a shell around the cores
ZAMS – (celestial object) zero age
main sequence, a star that has just become a
main-sequence star (i.e. a star that has begun burning hydrogen in its core)
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This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy. Most are drawn from professional astronomy, and are used quite frequently in scientific publications. A few are frequently used by the general public or by
amateur astronomers.
The acronyms listed below were placed into one or more of these categories:
ApJS – (publication) Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
APM – (instrumentation/catalog), Automatic plate measuring machine, a machine for making measurements from photographic plates; also, a catalog based on measurements by the machine
ASIAA – (organization) Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
ASKAP – (telescope) Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a next-generation
radio telescope under construction in Western Australia. It differs from previous radio-telescopes in having many
pixels at the
focus of each
antenna.
ASP – (organization) Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ASTRO – (spacecraft) Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations
ATA – (telescope) Allen Telescope Array, a radio
interferometer array developed by the
SETI Institute to search for possible signals from extraterrestrial life
ATCA – (telescope) Australia Telescope Compact Array
ATLAS – (observing program) Australia Telescope Large Area Survey, a deep
radio astronomicalsky survey of two
SWIRE fields covering a total of about 7 square degrees of sky.
CDIMP – (catalog) Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
CDM – (astrophysics terminology) Cold Dark Matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that characterize "cold" particles such as
WIMPs as
dark matter
CDS – (organization) Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
CELT – (telescope) – California Extremely Large Telescope, an older name for the Thirty Meter Telescope
CEMP – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor, a type of
carbon star
CEMP-no – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with no enhancement of elements produced by the
r-process or
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-r – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by
r-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-s – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEMP-r/s – (celestial object) Carbon-enhanced metal-poor star with an enhancement of elements produced by both
r-process and
s-processnucleosynthesis
CEP – (celestial object) CEPheid, a type of pulsating
variable star
CEPS – (organization) Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
CSBN – (organization) Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature
CSE – (celestial object) circumstellar envelope, a roughly spherical
planetary nebula formed from dense stellar wind if not present before the formation of a star.
CSI – (catalog) Catalog of Stellar Identification, a compilation of the catalogs,
BD,
CD, and
CPD
DNS – (celestial object) double
neutron star, another name for a binary neutron star system. [Caution: Do not confuse with DNS relating to DENIS – Deep Near Infrared Survey].
DOG – (celestial object)
dust-obscured
galaxy, a galaxy with an unusually high ratio of infrared-to-optical emission, implying strong dust absorption and re-emission.[4]
GEM – (observing program) Galileo Europa Mission, the science observation program of
Europa performed by the
Galileo spacecraft
GEM – (observing program) Giotto Extended Mission, the extended operations of the
Giotto spacecraft
GEMS – (organization) Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Study
GEMS – (survey) Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions
GEMSS – (organization) Global Exoplanet M-dwarf Search-Survey, a search for
exoplanets around m-dwarf stars
GEODDS – (telescope) Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance, a network of telescopes used in a
United States Air Force program for observing
space junk
GEOS – (organization) Groupe Européen Observations Stellaires, an amateur and professional association for study of variable stars.
GERLUMPH – (instrumentation) GPU-Enabled, High Resolution MicroLensing Parameter survey, where GPU is an acronym for Graphics Processing Unit.
GH – (catalog) Giclas Hyades, a catalog of stars in the
Hyades cluster
GROSCE – (telescope) Gamma Ray Burst Optical Counterparts Search Experiment, an automated telescope used to detect the optical counterparts to
gamma ray bursts
GRS – (instrumentation) Gamma Ray Spectrometer, an instrument on the
Mars Observer
GRS – (celestial object) Great Red Spot, a feature in the clouds of
Jupiter
HASI – (instrumentation) Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument, an instrument on the
Huygens probe
HB – (celestial object) horizontal branch, a type of evolved
red giant star in which helium is burned in the core and hydrogen is burned in a shell around the core
HBRP – (celestial object) High-magnetic field radio pulsar
HBV – (catalog) Hamburg–Bergedorf Variables, a catalog of
variable stars
HBMM – (astrophysics terminology) Hydrogen-burning minimum mass
HDE – (catalog) Henry Draper Extension, a catalog of stars
HDF – (data/celestial object) Hubble Deep Field, an area of the sky with little foreground obscuration that was observed deeply with the
Hubble Space Telescope; also the name for the data product itself
HEAO – (telescope) High Energy Astronomical Observatory, a series of
X-ray and
gamma ray space telescopes
HEASARC – (organization) High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, a
NASA organization that deals with
X-ray and
gamma ray telescope data
HerMES - (observing program) Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey, a legacy survey of star forming galaxies using the SPIRE and PACS instrument of
Herschel
HESS – (telescope) High Energy Stereoscopic System, a telescope for detecting
cosmic rays
HIP – (catalog) HIPPARCOS, the catalog of data produced by
Hipparcos
HIPASS – (Observing program) HI Parkes All-Sky Survey, survey of
HI sources
HIPPARCOS – (telescope) HIgh Precision PARallax COllecting Satellite, a space telescope specifically designed to measure distances to stars using
parallax
HISA – (astrophysical terminology) HI self-absorption region
HIRAX – (telescope) Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment, an interferometric array of 1024 6-meter (20ft) diameter radio telescopes to be built in South Africa
HK – (catalog) Survey for metal-poor stars based on the strength of CaII H and K absorption lines
HTRA – (astrophysics terminology) High time-resolution astrophysics, the observations of phenomena that vary on timescales of one second or less
HUT – (telescope) Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, an ultraviolet telescope that operated from the cargo bay of the
Space Shuttle
HVC – (celestial object) high-velocity cloud, an interstellar cloud with a velocity that is too high to be explained by galactic rotation
HXD – (instrumentation) Hard X-ray Detector, an instrument on the
Suzaku space telescope
HVS – (celestial object) hypervelocity star or high velocity star
I
IAC – (organization) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
IAPPP – (organization) International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAS – (organization) Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
IASY – (observing program) International Active Sun Year, the name given to a series of coordinated
Sun-related observational programs performed in 1969 and 1971
IAU – (organization) International Astronomical Union
ICRF – (astrophysics terminology) International Celestial Reference Frame, a coordinate system based on radio sources used to define the locations of objects in the sky
ICRS – (astrophysics terminology) International Celestial Reference System, a coordinate system based on
Hipparcos observations used to define the locations of objects in the sky
IDA – (organization) International Dark-Sky Association, an organization that seeks to control
light pollution
IDP – (celestial object) Interplanetary Dust Particle, dust particles around planets or planetary bodies
IEO – (astrophysics terminology) inner-Earth object, the orbits of
asteroids
IERS – (organization) International Earth Rotation geophysical Service or International Earth rotation and Reference systems Service, an organization that monitors the Earth's orientation with respect to the radio sources used to define the
ICRF
IFN – (celestial object) integrated flux nebulae, dust and gas outside the plane of the Milky Way, which are thus illuminated by the entire galaxy as opposed to a nearby star or stars
IGR – (catalog) Integral Gamma-Ray source, a catalog based on observations by the
INTEGRAL telescope
IGY – (observing program) International Geophysical Year, the name given to a series of coordinated geophysical and astronomical observation programs performed in 1957 and 1958
IHW – (organization) International Halley Watch, an organization created to coordinate observations of
Halley's Comet in 1986
ILOM – (spacecraft) In-situ Lunar Orientation Measurement, a mission to measure variations in the orientation of the
Moon from the Moon's surface
IOTA – (organization) International Occultation Timing Association, an organization for monitoring
occultations
IPAC – (organization) Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
IPMO – (celestial object) Isolated Planetary Mass Objects, another name for isolated
planemos or
sub-brown dwarfs
IQSY – (observing program) International Quiet Sun Year, the name given to a series of coordinated
Sun-related observational programs performed in 1964 and 1965
ISEE – (spacecraft) International Sun-Earth Explorer, a series of spacecraft designed to study the effects of the
Sun on the Earth's space environment and magnetosphere
ISGRI – (instrumentation) – INTEGRAL Soft Gamma-Ray Imager, an instrument on the
INTEGRAL satellite
ISTeC – (organization) International Small Telescope Cooperative
ISY – (observing program/meeting) International Space Year, the name given to a celebration of space exploration as well as a series of coordinated astronomical observations and a series of meetings to plan future astronomy research efforts
ITA – (organization) Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, one of three organizations that was combined to form the
Institute of Astronomy
IUCAA – (organization) Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics - Pune, India
IUE – (telescope) International Ultraviolet Explorer, an
ultraviolet space telescope
IUEDAC – (organization) IUE satellite Data Analysis Center
IWCA – (meeting) International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy
LAD-C – (instrumentation) Large Area Debris Collector, a canceled program that was to collect and catalog low orbital dust on the
International Space Station
LAEFF – (organization) Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental, a Spanish astronomy research organization
LAL – (catalog) LALande, a historical catalog of
stars
LAMOST – (telescope) Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope
LANL – (organization) Los Alamos National Laboratory
LF – (astrophysics terminology) luminosity function, the spatial density of objects such as
star clusters and
galaxies as a function of their
luminosity
LFT – (catalog) Luyten Five-Tenths, a catalog of
stars with
proper motions exceeding 0.5"
LGA – (instrumentation) low-gain antenna
LGM – (celestial object) Little Green Men, a humorous name applied to
pulsars soon after their discovery
LHEA – (organization) Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
LHS – (catalog) Luyten Half-Second, a catalog of
stars with
proper motions exceeding 0.5"
LIC – (celestial object) Local Interstellar Cloud, the cloud in the
interstellar medium through which the
Solar System is currently moving
LIGO – (telescope) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, an instrument for detecting
gravitational waves
LINEAR – (observing program) Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
LMXB – (celestial object) low-mass x-ray binary, an
X-ray-luminous
binary star system in which one of the stars is a
neutron star or
black hole that is stripping material away from the other star in the system
LPI – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Institute
LPL – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, the planetary science department of the
University of Arizona
LPV – (celestial object) Long Period Variable, a type of
variable star that changes in brightness slowly over time
LRG – (celestial object) luminous red galaxy, a dataset of galaxies from the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey that were selected on the basis of their red colors
LSR – (astrophysics terminology) local standard of rest, the frame of reference with a
velocity equal to the average velocity of all the
stars in the solar neighborhood, including the
Sun
LSST – (telescope) Legacy Survey of Space and Time
LST – (astrophysics terminology) local sidereal time, the
right ascension that is currently at the
zenith
M – (celestial object) Mira, a class of long period pulsating
variable stars named after
Mira, the archetype for the class
MAC – (observing program) Multi-instrument Aircraft Campaign, a program to study the cometary dust from the
Leonidsmeteor showers
MACHO – (celestial object/observing program/catalog) MAssive Compact Halo Object, an object in the
Milky Way's
halo thought to comprise part of the galaxy's
dark matter; also a survey to detect these sources through
gravitational lensing and the catalog of sources detected by the survey
MASER – (astrophysics terminology) microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, microwave emission that is similar to the optical emission from a
laser
MECO – (celestial object) magnetospheric eternally collapsing object, a type of object proposed as an alternative to
supermassive black holes as the central compact source within
active galactic nuclei
MEGARA – (instrumentation) Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias
MEPAG – (organization) Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group
MEPCO – (meeting) Meeting of European Planetary and Cometary Observers
MOA – (observing program) Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, a survey searching for
gravitational lenses
MOC – (instrumentation) Mars Observer Camera, an instrument on the
Mars Observer
MOID – (astrophysics terminology) minimum orbit intersection distance, the minimum distance between two objects' orbital paths
MOLA – (instrumentation) Mars Observer Laser Altimeter, an instrument on the
Mars Observer used to study
Mars's
topology
MOND – (astrophysics terminology) modified Newtonian dynamics
MONS – (telescope) Measuring Oscillations in Nearby Stars, a Danish space telescope that was proposed and designed but not built[6]
MOST – (telescope) Microvariability and Oscillations of STars, a space telescope designed to detect oscillations in the atmospheres of stars and
extrasolar planetss in orbit around other stars
MOST – (telescope) Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, an Australian
radio telescope
MOTIF – (telescope) Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
MOXE – (instrumentation) Monitoring X-ray Experiment, an
X-ray all-sky monitor designed for the
Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite
MPC – (publication) Minor Planet Circulars (also called Minor Planets and Comets)
MPEC – (publication) Minor Planet Electronic Circular
MRI – (astrophysics term) magnetorotational instability, a local instability in the accretion disks which only requires weak magnetic field and dΩ2/dR<0
NESS – (telescope) Near Earth Space Surveillance, a telescope for observing
near-Earth asteroids
NESSI – (organization) Near Earth Space Surveillance Initiative, a collaboration planning to use a ground-based telescope to observe
near-Earth asteroids
NIRCam – (Instrument), Near-Infrared Camera, an instrument on James Webb Telescope
NIRSpec – (instrument) Near-Infrared Spectrograph, an instrument on James Webb Telerscope
NIST – (organization) National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLAGN – (celestial object) Narrow-Line
AGN, classified based on lack of broadened emission or absorption lines in spectra
NLR – (astrophysics term) the Narrow Line Region of the
AGN
NLTE – (astrophysics terminology) non-local thermodynamic equilibrium, situations where the temperature, pressure, etc. of a system are not in equilibrium
OAO – (observatory) Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, in Japan
OAO – (telescope) Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, a series of satellites with astronomical instruments that operated in the 1970s
OC – (celestial object) open cluster, a cluster of stars
OCA – (organization) Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
OCO – (celestial object) Oort Cloud Object, an object (usually a
comet) in the
Oort cloud
OGLE – (observing program/catalog) Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, an observing program to survey the sky for
microlensing events; also the catalog of sources produced by the project
BLG – (catalog) BuLGe, used to designate a source detected in the direction of the bulge of the
Milky Way
TR – (catalog) TRansit, used to designate a potential observation of a
microlensing event caused by a transiting star
OPAG – (organization) Outer Planets Assessment Group, a group established by NASA that provides advice on
Solar System exploration
ORFEUS – (telescope) Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer, an
ultraviolet space telescope that could be released and later retrieved by the
Space Shuttle
OSIRIS-REx – Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer
PCAS – (observing program) Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
PDBI – (telescope) Plateau de Bure Interferometer, a radio telescope
PDR – a photodissociation region or photon-dominated region (both terms are used synonymously); a region in the neutral
ISM in which far-ultraviolet photons dominate the heating and chemistry
PDS – is a distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System missions.
PEP – (instrumentation) PhotoElectric Photometry, an observing technique using
photometers
PEPE – (instrumentation) Plasma Experiment for Planetary Exploration, an instrument on
Deep Space 1
POSSUM – Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism
PPARC – (organization) Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, a major government-sponsored science agency in the United Kingdom, merged into the
Science and Technology Facilities Council in 2007
PPM – (catalog) Positions and Proper Motions, a catalog of the positions and
proper motions of
stars
PPN – (celestial object) proto-planetary nebula, an object that has partially evolved from a
red giant to a
planetary nebula
PRE – (astrophysics terminology) photospheric radius expansion
PSF – (instrumentation) Point Spread Function, a function that describes the blurring of a point source that is caused by the optics of the telescope and instrument (as well as other effects)
RLOF – (astrophysics terminology) Roche Lobe Overflow, the result of when an object in a binary system is larger than its
roche lobe (i.e. when an object in a binary system expands to a radius where tidal forces become stronger than gravitational forces)
RLQ – (celestial object) radio loud
quasar, a
quasar that produces strong radio emission
ROSAT – (telescope) ROentgen SATellite, an
X-ray space telescope
ROTSE – (observing program/telescope) Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment, an observing program for detecting the optical counterparts of
gamma ray bursts; also the telescopes used in this program
RQQ – (celestial object) radio-quiet
quasara
quasar that produces weak radio emission
RRAT – (celestial object) rotating radio transient, a population of rotating
neutron stars that produce periodic bursts of emission that are separated by intervals of minutes or hours
RRL – (celestial object) RR Lyrae, a class of pulsating
variable stars named after
RR Lyrae, the archetype of the class
also RR
RSA – (catalog) Revised Shapley-Ames, a catalog of nearby
galaxies
SAAO – (organization) South African Astronomical Observatory
SALT – (telescope) Southern African Large Telescope
SAF – (organization) Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society)
SAM – (astrophysics terminology) Semi-Analytic Modeling, models that draw on numerical and analytical methods to model dark matter evolution in galaxies
SAO – (organization/catalog) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the name of astrophysics research organization associated with
Harvard University; also a catalog of
stars
SARA – (organization) Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
SAS – (software) Science Analysis Software, a software package used for processing data from the
XMM-Newton Observatory
SBIG – (organization/instrumentation) Santa Barbara Instrument Group, the name of both a company that manufactures telescope equipment and the company's products
SBNC – (organization) Small Bodies Names Committee, an older name for the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature
SCP – (observing program) Supernova Cosmology Project, a project to measure the expansion of the
universe using
supernovae at high
redshifts
SCR – (observing program) SuperCOSMOS-RECONS, a survey that measured the
proper motions of
stars
SCT – (telescope) Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope, a general name for a type of compact telescope that uses both lenses and mirrors
SCUBA – (instrumentation) Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array, a submillimeter imager formerly at the
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
SCUBA-2 – (instrumentation) Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2, a submillimeter imager that will replace
SCUBA
sd – (celestial object) subdwarf, stars fainter than
main-sequence stars with the same colors; often used as a prefix to a star's
spectral type
SIM – (telescope) Space Interferometry Mission, a planned optical space telescope that will be used to measure distances to
stars
SIMBAD – (software) Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data, a website that provides catalog data on astronomical objects
SINGG – (observing program) Survey of Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies, a survey of star formation in nearby galaxies selected by gas rich galaxies using H-alpha and ultraviolet observations
SIPS – (observing program/catalog) Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey, a program to identify
stars with high
proper motions at
infrared wavelengths
SIRTF – (telescope) Space InfraRed Telescope Facility or Shuttle InfraRed Telescope Facility, older names for the
Spitzer Space Telescope
SNU – (astrophysics terminology) solar neutrino units
SOARD – (software) Steward Observatory Asteroid Relational Database
SOFIA – (telescope) Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an
infrared telescope currently under construction that will fly inside a modified
Boeing 747 aircraft
SOHO – (telescope) SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory, a solar space telescope
SPARTAN – (telescope) Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for AstroNomy, an
ultraviolet space telescope that can be released and retrieved by the
Space Shuttle
SPS – (spacecraft) solar power satellite, a general name for proposed satellites that would convert solar power into energy and then beam the energy to the surface of a planet (such as Earth) in the form of
microwaves
SPS – (astrophysical terminology) stellar population synthesis
SST – (telescope) Spitzer Space Telescope, a space telescope
STARSMOG – (observing program) STarlight Absorption Reduction through a Survey of Multiple Occulting Galaxies, a survey using
Hubble Space Telescope imaging
SWAN – (instrumentation) Solar Wind ANisotropy, an instrument on
SOHO
SWAS – (telescope) Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite, a
submillimeter space telescope
SWEEPS – (observing program) – Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, a survey of a subsection of the plane of the
Milky Way performed with the
Hubble Space Telescope
TAI – (astrophysics terminology) International Atomic Time
TAMS – (astrophysics terminology) terminal-age
main sequence, stars at the point in their lifetimes where they have finished burning
hydrogen in their cores
TAROT – (telescope) Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires
TCG – (astrophysics terminology) Geocentric Coordinate Time
TDB – (astrophysics terminology) Barycentric Dynamical Time
TDRSS – (communications network) Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, an array of
satellites used by
NASA to communicate with many spacecraft in low Earth orbit
TESS - (spacecraft) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, NASA: an all-sky survey mission that will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. TESS launched 18 April 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
TEP – (organization) Transits of Extrasolar Planets
TRGB - (celestial object) - Tip of the Red-Giant Branch stars, a primary distance indicator
VLBA – (telescope) Very Long Baseline Array, a radio telescope operated by the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory with antennas spread across the United States
VLBI – (instrumentation) very long baseline interferometry, combining signals from multiple telescopes/radio antennas that are separated by large distances
VLM – (astrophysics terminology) very low mass, objects (usually
stars) that have relatively low masses
VLT – (telescope) Very Large Telescope, four 8.2 meter telescopes in
Chile that operate either independently as individual telescopes or together as an
interferometer
WDM – (astrophysics terminology) warm dark matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that characterizes "hot" particles such as
neutrinos as
dark matter
WDS – (catalog) Washington Double Star, a catalog of
double stars
WEBT – (organization) Whole Earth Blazar Telescope, a network of observers across the Earth who work together to perform continuous observations of
blazars
WET – (organization) Whole Earth Telescope, a network of astronomers spread across the Earth who work together to perform continuous observations of
variable stars
WIMP – (celestial object) Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, a hypothetical subatomic particle that may comprise most of the dark matter in the universe
ZAHB – (celestial object) "zero-age"
horizontal branch, horizontal branch stars that have just begun burning helium in their cores and hydrogen in a shell around the cores
ZAMS – (celestial object) zero age
main sequence, a star that has just become a
main-sequence star (i.e. a star that has begun burning hydrogen in its core)
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