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Astronomical Acronymns

Assorted Astronomical Acronymns, Abbreviations and Abridgements

(Something I started a while ago, now hopelessly out-of-date :)

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Acronym: link Stands For:
MISC   | Top |
2BL link 2QZ BL Lac Sample
2MASS link 2 Micron All-Sky Survey
2QZ link 2dF Quasar Redshift Survey
2dF   Two Degree Field (spectrograph)
3C   3rd Cambridge catalogue of radio sources
3CR   3rd Cambridge catalogue of radio sources, Revised edition
A   | Top |
A&A link Astronomy & Astrophysics
A&AS link Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement
AAO link Anglo-Australian Observatory
AAT   Anglo-Australian Telescope
ADAF   Advection Dominated Accretion Flow
AGB   Asymptotic Giant Branch
AGES link Arecibo Galaxy Environments Survey
AGN   Active Galactic Nucleus/Nuclei
AJ link Astronomical Journal
ANITA link Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
ANITA link ANtarctic Impulse Transient Antenna
ANU   Australian National University
ASKAP link Australian SKA Pathfinder
ATCA link Australia Telescope Compact Array
ATNF link Australia Telescope National Facility
ApJ link Astrophysical Journal
B   | Top |
BAL   Broad Absorption Line
BALQSO   Broad Absorption Line Quasi-StellarObject
BAT link Burst Alert Telescope (onboard Swift)
BBB   Big Blue Bump
BELR   Broad Emission Line Region
BH   Black Hole
BLR   Broad Line Region
C   | Top |
CABB   Compact Array Broadband Backend
CAPMAP   Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper
CASPIR link Cryogenic Array SPectrometer/ImageR (on ANU 2.3m)
CASTLES link CfA-Arizona Space Telescope LEns Survey
CCD   Charge-Coupled Device
CFHT link Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope
CGRO   Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
CLASS link Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey
CMD   Colour-Magnitude Diagram
CO5BOLD link COnservative COde for the COmputation of COmpressible COnvection in a BOx of L Dimensions with l=2,3
CSIRO link Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CTIO link Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
Cangaroo link Collaboration between Australia and Nippon for a Gamma Ray Observatory in the Outback
CfA link Center for Astrophysics
D   | Top |
DASI   Degree Angular Scale Interferometer
DBS link Dual Beam Spectrograph (on ANU 2.3m)
DEEP link Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe
DLA   Damped Lyman-Alpha system
E   | Top |
EGRET   Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope
ELAIS   European Large Area ISO Survey
ESO link European Southern Observatory
F   | Top |
FIR   Far-InfraRed
FIRST link Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters
FR I/II   Fanaroff-Riley (radio galaxy) type I/II
FSRQ   Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar
FUSE   Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FUV   Far-UltraViolet
FWHM   Full Width at Half Maximum
G   | Top |
GALEX link GALaxy Evolution EXplorer
GBT   Green Bank Telescope
GLAST link Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GMOS   Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (on Gemini)
GMRT link Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope
GNIRS   Gemini Near InfraRed Spectrograph (on Gemini South)
GOES   Geostationary Observational Environment Satellite
GRB   Gamma-Ray Burst
GZK   Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin
H   | Top |
HBL   High frequency peaking BL Lac object
HESS   High Energy Stereoscopic System
HSB   High Surface Brightness
HST   Hubble Space Telescope
I   | Top |
IAR   Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia
IAU   International Astronomical Union
IC   Index Catalogue (of Nebulae)
ICM   Intra-Cluster Medium
IDV   Intra-Day Variable/Variability
IGM   InterGalactic Medium
INT link Isaac Newton Telescope
INTEGRAL   NTErnationalGamma Ray AstrophysicsLaboratory
IRAF   Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRAM   Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique
IRAS   InfraRed Astronomical Satellite
IRIS   InfraRed Imager and Spectrograph (on AAT)
IRTF link InfraRed Telescope Facility
ISM   InterStellar Medium
ISO   Infrared Space Observatory
IUE   International Ultraviolet Explorer
IVO   International Virtual Observatory
J   | Top |
JAC   Joint Astronomy Centre
JWST   James Webb Space Telescope
K   | Top |
KAOS   Kilo-Aperture Optical Spectrograph (intended for Gemini?)
KELT link Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
L   | Top |
LBL   Low frequency peaking BL Lac object
LBQS   Large Bright Quasar Survey
LFD   Low Frequency Demonstrator
LINER   Low Ionisation Nuclear Emission line Region
LMC   Large Magellanic Cloud
LPQ   Low Polarisation Quasar
LSB   Low Surface Brightness
LSS   Large Scale Structure
LSS   Last Scattering Surface
M   | Top |
MGC link Millenium Galaxy Catalogue
MIPS link Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer
MIR   Mid-InfraRed
MIRA link Milyura International Radio Array
MIRANdA link MIRA Large-N Small-d Array
MMT   Multiple Mirror Telescope (Minor Misnomer Telescope?)
MNRAS   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
MWA link Mileura Widefield Array
N   | Top |
NGC   New General Catalogue
NGST   Next Generation Space Telescope
NIFS   Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (on Gemini North)
NIR   Near-InfraRed
NIRI   Near-InfraRed Imager and spectrograph (on Gemini North)
NLS1   Narrow Line Seyfert-1
NOT   Nordic Optical Telescope
NTD   New Technology Demonstrator
NVSS link NRAO VLA Sky Survey
O   | Top |
OVV   Optically-Violent Variable
OWL   OverWhelmingly Large telescope
P   | Top |
PAH   Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
PASA   Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
PASJ   Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
PASP   Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
PHFS   Parkes Half-Jansky Flat-spectrum Sample
PILOT link Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope
PIQUE   Princeton IQU Experiment
PKS   Parkes
Q   | Top |
QSO   Quasi-Stellar Object
QSR   Quasi-Stellar Radio source
R   | Top |
RFI   Radio Frequency Interference
RIAF   Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow
ROTSE link Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
RRAT link Repeating Radio Transient
RSAA link Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (at ANU)
S   | Top |
SDSS   Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SED   Spectral Energy Distribution
SFR   Star Formation Rate
SKA link Square Kilometre Array
SMBH   SuperMassive Black Hole
SMC   Small Magellanic Cloud
SN(e)   SuperNova(e)
SNR   SuperNova Rate
SNR   SuperNova Remnant
SOHO   SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
SSDI   Simultaneous Spectral DifferentialImaging
SSO   Siding Spring Observatory
SSS link SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
SWIRE   Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey
Sy 1/2   Seyfert (galaxy) type 1/2
T   | Top |
T-ReCS link Thermal Region Camera & Spectrograph (on Gemini South)
TEXES link Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph
U   | Top |
UHECR   Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray
UKST   United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
ULIRG   Ultra-Luminous InfraRed Galaxy
UNSW link University of New South Wales
UV   UltraViolet
UVOIR   UltraViolet-Optical-InfraRed
UVOT link UV/Optical Telescope (onboard Swift)
V   | Top |
VLA link Very Large Array
VLBA   Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI   Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLT   Very Large Telescope
W   | Top |
WMAP link Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
WSRT link Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
X   | Top |
XBONG   X-ray Bright Optically Normal Galaxy
XMM   Xray Multi-Mirror telescope
XRT link X-Ray Telescope (onboard Swift)
xNTD   extended New Technology Demonstrator
Y   | Top |
Z   | Top |