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| 2MASS | Two Micron All Sky Survey |
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| 5MUSES | 5 mJy Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey |
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| AAS | American Astronomical Society |
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| ABS | Atacama B-Mode Search |
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| ACBAR | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
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| ACMC | Auriga-California Molecular Cloud Herschel program |
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| ACME | Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiements |
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| ACME / HACME | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer / HEMT+ACME |
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| ACT | Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
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| ACTPol | Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Polarization |
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| ADAP | Astrophysics Data Analysis Program |
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| ADCAR | Astrophysics Data Curation and Archival Research |
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| ADEC | Astronomical Data Centers Executive Council |
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| Advanced ACTPol | Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Polarization |
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| ADS | Astrophysics Data System |
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| AGN | Active Galactic Nucleus |
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| AKARI | Infrared Astronomical Satellite - "AKARI" means a "light" in Japanese. |
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| ALiCPT | Ali CMB Polarization Telescope |
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| ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter Array |
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| AMI | Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager |
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| AOR | Astronomical Observation Request |
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| APACHE | Antarctic PlateauAnisotropy CHasing Experiment |
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| API | Application Programming Interface |
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| APRA | Astrophysics Research and Analysis |
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| ARCADE | Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission |
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| ARGO | ARGO - a 1.2m balloon-borne telescope |
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| ASDS | Analyzed Science Data Sets |
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| ASTRO-F | ASTRO-F is an astronomical satellite to observe the Universe in the infrared light. The ASTRO-F was given a nickname of "AKARI" after the launch. |
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| ATCA | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
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| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
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| BAM | Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement |
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| BaR-SPOrt | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations |
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| BCD | Basic Calibrated Data |
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| BEAST | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
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| BICEP1 | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP/Keck series of experiments) |
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| BICEP2 | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP/Keck series of experiments) |
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| BICEP3 | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP/Keck series of experiments) |
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| BICEP/Keck | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP/Keck series of experiments) |
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| BIMA | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
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| BJD | Barycentric Julian Date |
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| BLAST | Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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| Bolocam | millimeter-wavelength bolometer array camera |
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| BOOMERanG | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation AND Geophysics |
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| BRAVA | Bulge RAdial Velocity Assay |
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| BRE | Burning Rate Emulator |
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| C2D | Spitzer "Cores to Disks" legacy program |
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| CADC | Canadian Astronomy Data Centre |
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| CADE | Centre d'Analyse de Données Etendues |
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| CAMB | Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background |
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| CAOM | Common Archive Observation Model |
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| CAPMAP | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
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| CARMA | Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy |
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| CAT | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
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| CBI | Cosmic Background Imager |
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| CCAT/FYST | Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope |
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| CDS | Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center |
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| CFHT | Canada France Hawaii Telescope |
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| CG | Cosmological Gene |
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| CIP | Cosmic Infrared Background |
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| CLASH | Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble |
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| CLASS | data format used in submillimeter astronomy |
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| CLASS | Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor |
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| CLD Flame | Coflow Lamina Diffusion Flame |
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| CMB | Cosmic Microwave Background |
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| CMB-HD | Cosmic Microwave Background - High Definition |
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| CMB-S4 | is the next generation ground-base cosmic microwave background experiment. |
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| CO | Carbon Monoxide |
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| COBE | COsmic Background Explorer |
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| COBE-DMR | COsmic Background Explorer Differential Microwave Radiometer |
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| COBE/FIRAS | COsmic Background Explorer Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer |
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| COMPASS | COsmic Microwave Polarization At Small Scales |
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| COOLTNOs | TNOs are Cool! - A Survey of the trans-Neptunian Region |
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| COPAG | Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group |
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| CoRoT | Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits satellite |
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| COSMOSOMAS | COSMOlogical Structures On Medium Angular Scales |
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| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
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| CSI2264 | The Coordinated Synoptic Investigation of NGC 2264 |
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| CSV | Comma Separated Values |
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| CUBISM | CUbe Builder for IRS Spectra Maps |
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| CUPID | Customizable User Pipeline for IRS Data |
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| CXC | Chandra X-Ray Center |
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| DASI | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
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| DBMS | DataBase Management System |
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| DCE | Data Collection Explorer |
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| DENIS | DEep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky |
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| DIGIT | Dust, Ice, and Gas In Time Herschel program |
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| DIRBE | Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment |
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| DMR | Differntial Microwave Radiometer |
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| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
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| DR | Data Release |
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| DUNES | DUst Around NEarby Stars |
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| DUSTiNGS | DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer |
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| DSS | Digitized Sky Survey |
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| ECDFS | Extended Chandra Deep Field South |
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| E-FIELD Flames | Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames |
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| EBEX | The E and B Experiment |
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| EGS | Extended Groth Strip |
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| eHOPS | Extension of HOPS out to 500 Parsecs |
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| EIGA | Extended IRAS Galaxy Atlas |
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| ELFLock | Eureka LBNL Far-IR Lockman Hole |
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| ERCSC | Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogs |
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| ESA | European Space Agency |
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| EXES | Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph |
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| FEPS | Spitzer Legacy program, Formation and Evolution of Planetary System |
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| FIDEL | Far-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey |
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| FIFI-LS | Field Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer |
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| FIR | Far-Infra-Red |
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| FIRAS | Far Infra-Red Absolute Spectrophotometer |
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| FIRS | Far Infra-Red Survey |
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| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
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| FLITECAM | First Light Infrared TEst CAMera |
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| FLS | First Look Survey |
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| FORCAST | Faint Object InfraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope |
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| FOV | field of view |
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| FPI+ | Focal Plane Imager |
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| FTS | Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
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| FY | Fiscal Year |
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| GALCEN | Galactic Cennter IRAC catalog |
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| GALEX | Galaxy Evolution Explorer |
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| Gator | nickname for IRSA's catalog search service |
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| GB | Gigabyte |
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| GeRT | Germanium Reduction Tool |
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| GLIMPSE | Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire |
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| GO | General Observer |
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| GOALS | Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey |
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| GOODS | Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey |
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| GOT_Cplus | Galactic Observations of Terahertz C+ |
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| GREAT | German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies |
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| GroundBIRD | Ground B-mode Imaging Radiation Detector |
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| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| H | standard 1.6 micron imaging filter |
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| H-Atlas | Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey |
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| HAWC+ | High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera |
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| HDF | Hubble Deep Field |
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| HDU | Header Data Unit |
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| HEALPIX | Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude PIXelization |
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| HEASARC | NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center |
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| HELGA | Herschel Exploitation of the Local Galaxy Andromeda |
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| HERITAGE | Herschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution |
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| HerM33es | Herschel M33 Extended Survey |
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| HerMES | Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey |
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| HERUS | Herschel Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy Survey |
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| HETDEX | Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment |
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| HeVICS | Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey |
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| HEXOS | Herschel observations of Extra-Ordinary Sources |
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| HFI | Planck High Frequency Instrument |
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| HGBS | Herschel Gould Belt Survey |
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| HHLI | Herschel High Level Images |
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| HIFI | Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared |
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| HIFISTARS | The physical and chemical properties of circumstellar environments around evolved stars Herschel program |
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| Hi-GAL | Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey |
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| HIPO | High Speed Imaging Photometer for Occultations |
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| HiPS | Hierarchical Progressive Surveys |
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| HIRES | IRAS data tool |
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| HIRMES | HIgh Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer |
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| HOP | Herschel Oxygen Project |
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| HOPS | Herschel Orion Protostar Survey |
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| HPDP | Highly Processed Data Products |
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| HSA | ESA's Herschel Science Archive |
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| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
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| HTM | Hierarchical Triangular Mesh |
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| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
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| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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| HUDF | Hubble Ultra-Deep Field |
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| IBE | IRSA Image Server (Image Back End) |
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| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
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| I/F | Interface |
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| IGA | IRAS Galaxy Atlas |
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| IMF | Initial Mass Function |
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| IPAC | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center |
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| IR | Infrared |
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| IRAC | Spitzer's InfraRed Array Camera |
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| IRAF | Image Reduction and Analysis Facility |
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| IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
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| IRIS | Improved Reprocessing of the IRAS Survey |
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| IRS | Spitzer's Infrared Spectrometer |
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| IRSA | NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive |
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| IRTF | Infrared Telescope Facility |
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| IRTS | The Infrared Telescope in Space |
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| ISM | Inter-stellar Medium |
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| ISO | Infrared Space Observatory |
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| ISSA | IRAS Sky Survey Atlas |
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| IUDF | IRAC UltraDeep Field |
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| IVOA | International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
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| J | standard 1.2 micron imaging filter |
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| JAXA | Japanese Aerospace EXploration Agency |
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| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| JWST | James Webb Space Telescope |
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| K | standard 2 micron imaging filter (also Ks) |
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| KINGFISH | Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel |
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| KUPID | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
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| ΛCDM | Lambda Cold Dark Matter |
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| LAMBDA | Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis |
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| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
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| LCOGT | Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope |
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| LDB | long-duration balloon |
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| LFI | Planck Low Frequency Instrument |
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| LGA | 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas |
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| LIM | Line Intensity Mapping |
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| LIRG | luminous infrared galaxy |
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| LiteBIRD | Lite B-mode polarization and nflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection |
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| LMC | Large Magellanic Cloud |
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| LSPE | Large-Scale Polarization Explorer |
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| LSS | Large Scale Structure |
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| LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
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| LVL | Spitzer Local Volume Survey |
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| MAST | Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes |
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| MAT | Microwave Anisotropy Telescope |
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| MAXIMA | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
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| MESS | Mass-loss of Evolved StarS Herschel Key Program |
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| MIGA | IRAS Mid-Infrared Galaxy Atlas |
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| MINT | Millimeter INTerferometer |
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| MIPOL | MIlano POLarimeter |
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| MIPS | Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer |
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| MIPSGAL | MIPS mapping of the GALactic Plane |
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| MJD | Modified Julian Date |
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| MOC | Multi-Order Coverage |
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| MOPEX | MOsaicker and Point source EXtractor |
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| MOST | Moving Object Search Tool |
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| MSAM | Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement |
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| MPC | Minor Planet Center |
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| MSX | Midcourse Survey Experiment |
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| MUSYC | Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile |
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| NAIF ID | Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility IDentification |
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| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| NAVO | NASA Astrophysics Virtual Observatory |
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| NED | NASA Extragalactic Database |
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| NEO | Near Earth Object |
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| NExScI | NASA Exoplanet Science Institute |
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| NHSC | NASA Herschel Science Center |
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| NITARP | NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program |
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| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
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| NRC | National Research Council |
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| NSF | National Science Foundation |
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| NSSDC | NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive |
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| NVO | National Virtual Observatory |
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| ODR | Open Data Registry |
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| P60 GRB | Palomar 60 inch telescope for Gamma Ray Burst afterglows |
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| PACS | Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer |
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| PAH | Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
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| PanSTARRS | Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System |
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| PB | Petabyte |
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| PBCD | Post Basic Calibrated Data |
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| PCCS | Planck Catalog of Compact Sources |
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| PEP | PACS Evolutionary Probe |
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| PHPDP | PACS Highly Processed Data Products |
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| PI | Principal Investigator |
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| PICO | Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins |
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| PIQUE | Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment |
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| PLA | Planck Legacy Archive |
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| POLAR | Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions |
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| PR | Public Release |
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| PRISMAS | PRobing InterStellar Molecules with Absorption line Studies |
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| PSC | Point Source Catalog |
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| PSF | Point Spread Function |
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| PSPIPE | Power Spectrum PIPEline |
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| PTF | Palomar Transient Factory |
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| Python | an instrument in the CARA study |
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| QSO | Quasi-Stellar Object |
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| QUBIC | Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology |
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| QUIET | Q/U Imaging ExperimenT |
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| Radar | nickname for IRSA's inventory search service |
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| s-Flames | Structure and Response of Spherical Flames |
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| S4G | Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies |
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| S5 | Spitzer SDSS Statistical Spectroscopic Survey |
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| SAFIRES | Spitzer Archival FIR Extragalactic Survey |
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| SAG-4 | Evolution of Interstellar Dust Herschel Key Program |
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| SAGE | Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution |
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| SASS | Spitzer Atlas of Stellar Spectra |
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| S-CANDELS | Spitzer Cosmic Assembly Deep Near-Infrared Extragalactic Survey |
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| Scanpi | IRAS data analysis tool |
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| SCS | Simple Cone Search |
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| SCUBA | Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array |
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| SDSS | Sloan Digitized Sky Survey |
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| SDWFS | Spitzer Deep Wide Field Survey |
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| SED | Spectral Energy Distribution |
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| SEIP | Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products |
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| SERVS | Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey |
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| SHA | Spitzer Heritage Archive |
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| SHELA | Spitzer/HETDEX Exploratory Large-Area Survey |
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| SHPDP | SPIRE Highly Processed Data Products |
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| SIA | Simple Image Access |
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| SIA2 | Simple Image Access 2 |
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| Simons Array | will include more than 20,000 POLARBEAR-2 style detectors |
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| SIMPLE | Spitzer IRAC/MUSYC Public Legacy Survey in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South |
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| SINGS | SpItzer Nearby Galaxy Survey |
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| SIRTF | Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Spitzer) |
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| SMC | Small Magellanic Cloud |
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| SMOG | Spitzer Mapping of the Outer Galaxy |
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| SMUVS | Spitzer Matching Survey of the Ultra-VISTA Deep Stripes |
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| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
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| SPICE | Spitzer IRS Custom Extraction |
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| SPICY | Spitzer/IRAC Candidate YSO |
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| SPIDER | used to be an acronym, but now is the project’s formal name |
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| SpIES | Spitzer IRAC Equatorial Survey |
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| SPIRE | Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver |
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| SPOT | Spitzer Planning Observations Tool (also used by Herschel and SOFIA) |
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| SPT | South Pole Telescope |
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| SPTpol | South Pole Telescope-polarization |
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| SQL | Structured Query Language |
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| SSA | Simple Spectra Access |
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| SSC | Spitzer Science Center |
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| SST | Spitzer Space Telescope |
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| SSDF | SPT-Spitzer Deep Field |
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| STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute |
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| SWAS | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite |
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| SZ | Sunyaev-Zel'dovich |
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| TAP | Table Access Protocol |
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| Taurus | name of a ballon-borne telescope |
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| TB | Terabyte |
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| TES | transition-edge sensor |
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| TEXES | IRTF high-resolution mid-infrared spectrograph |
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| TOI | Time Ordered Information |
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| TopHat | an instrument that has been designed to collect data on the CMBR. |
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| TRIS | Three Radiometer CMB Spectrum Experiment |
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| TSV | Tab Separated Values |
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| UCAC | USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog |
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| UDS | UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey |
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| UKIDSS | The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey |
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| UKIRT | the UK Infrared Telescope |
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| USNO | US Naval Observatory |
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| USNO-B | US Naval Observatory B1.0 catalog |
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| UV | ultraviolet |
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| UWS | Universal Worker Service |
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| VAO | Virtual Astronomical Observatory |
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| VLA | Very Large Array |
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| VLT | Very Large Telescope |
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| VNGS | Very Nearby Galaxy Survey |
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| VO | Virtual Observatory |
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| VSA | Very Small Array |
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| WCS | World Coordinate System |
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| WFC3 | Wide Field Camera 3 |
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| WFIRST | Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope |
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| WhiteMountain | White Mt. (Berkeley, Bologna, Haverford, Milano, Padova) collaboration |
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| WISE | Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
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| WIYN | 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak |
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| WMAP | Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
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| XMM | ESA's XMM-Newton, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission |
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| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
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| XSC | Extended Source Catalog |
Y |
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| YSO | Young Stellar Object |
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| YSOVAR | Young Stellar Object Variability |
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| YTLA (formerly AMiBA) | Yan-Tseh Lee Array |
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| z0MGS | z=0 Multiwavelength Galaxy Synthesis |
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| ZTF | Zwicky Transient Factory |
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