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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. A AAS, see American Astronomical Society Academic facilities, see Universities and colleges Accretion and accretion disks, 58, 63, 72, 80, 83, 112, 127 defined, 214 Adaptive optics, 11, 20, 45, 103-104, 105, 109, 114, 147 defined, 214 Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT), 10, 11, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 45, 46, 54, 55, 57, 58, 72, 76, 77-78, 79, 97, 100, 101-106, 118 Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station (ACCESS), 14, 33, 45, 123-124 Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth (ARISE), 10, 14, 33, 37, 42, 54, 81, 83, 98, 127, 195 Advanced Solar Telescope (AST), 8, 10, 13, 31, 33, 37, 41, 45, 54, 66, 68, 98, 114-116 Airborne observatories balloon programs, 5, 14, 24, 33, 43, 45, 89, 90, 129, 195 Ultralong-Duration Balloon (ULDB) program, 33, 45, 135, 195 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), 24, 54, 100, 109, 110 ALMA, see Atacama Large Millimeter Array American Association for the Advancement of Science, 160 American Association of Variable Star Observers, 143 American Astronomical Society (AAS), xxvii, xviii, 2, 21, 139-140, 142, 145, 160, 164, 166-167, 169, 171, 173, 199, 201-202 American Astronomical Society’s Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy, The, 171, 201-202 American Physical Society, 202 Andromeda Galaxy, 79 Antarctica Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), 44, 123 South Pole Submillimeter-wave Telescope (SPST), 10, 13, 33, 37, 43, 54, 75, 98, 128-129, 131 Apache Point, 140 Arecibo telescope, 125-126 ARISE, see Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth AST, see Advanced Solar Telescope; Division of Astronomical Sciences Asteroids, see Comets and asteroids; Near-Earth objects Astro-E, 118 Astrometric Interferometry Mission, see Space Interferometry Mission Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 142, 145, 160, 164, 166-167, 169, 173, 202 Astrophysics Theory Program (NASA), 14, 29, 33, 44 Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), 4, 8, 11, 12, 20, 24, 30, 31, 38, 42, 54, 57, 72, 75, 110, 130, 189 Atmospheres, planetary, 12, 13, 24, 36, 43, 57, 58, 83, 99, 109, 111, 112, 116, 119-120, 147, 153, 154 see also Adaptive optics; Airborne observatories; Climate and weather, planetary; Terrestrial planets B Bahcall report, see Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Balloon programs, 5, 14, 24, 33, 43, 45, 89, 90, 129, 195 Ultralong-Duration Balloon (ULDB) program, 33, 45, 135, 195 BeppoSAX satellite, 73, 74, 75 Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA), 41, 128, 130, 206 (n.4) see also Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy Big Bang, 2, 19, 32, 43, 53, 71, 86, 88, 89-91, 124, 134-135, 219 BIMA, see Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association
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