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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |