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Appendix C: Acronyms
Pages 113-118

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From page 113...
... APO Apache Point Observatory APOGEE APO Galactic Evolution Experiment ARC Astrophysical Research Consortium ARCONS Array Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometry ASAS-SN All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ASM Adaptive Secondary Mirrors AST Division of Astronomical Sciences (NSF) ATI Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (NSF)
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From page 114...
... CAA Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (NRC) CADC Canadian Astronomy Data Centre CANDELS Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey CFHT Canada France Hawaii Telescope CLASH Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble CPU central processing unit CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory DCT Discovery Channel Telescope DECam Dark Energy Camera DEIMOS Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph DES Dark Energy Survey DESC Dark Energy Survey Collaboration DESI Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument DKIST Daniel K
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From page 115...
... A pp e n d i x C 115 GMT Giant Magellan Telescope GMTO Giant Magellan Telescope Organization GPI Gemini Planet Imager GRB gamma ray burst GSMT Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope GTC Gran Telescopio Canarias HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center HET Hobby-Eberly Telescope HETDEX Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment HFF Hubble Frontier Fields HIRES High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer HST Hubble Space Telescope HUDF12 Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 IFU integral field unit INT Isaac Newton Telescope IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center iPHAS INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey iPTF Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory IR infrared IRSA Infrared Science Archive IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility IVOA International Virtual Observatory Alliance JWST James Webb Space Telescope KCWI Keck Cosmic Web Imager KI Keck Interferometer KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory LAMOST Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBT Large Binocular Telescope LBTI Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope LEECH LBT Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt LHC Large Hadron Collider LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory LOSS Lick Observatory Supernova Search LRIS Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
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From page 116...
... MUSE Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (ESO) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications NFIRAOS Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer NIRC Near Infrared Camera NIRC2 Near Infrared Camera 2 NIRSPEC Near Infrared Echelle Spectrometer NN-EXPLORE NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research NOAO National Optical Astronomical Observatory NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array NWNH New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey report)
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From page 117...
... TAC time allocation committee TAO Tokyo Atacama Observatory TB terabyte (=1,000 gigabytes = 1012 bytes) TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TIO TMT International Observatory TMT Thirty Meter Telescope TNO Trans-Neptunian Object ToO target of opportunity TSIP Telescope System Instrumentation Program ugrizy Set of broadband optical filters from ultraviolet through near-infrared UKIDSS UKIRT Deep Infrared Deep Sky Survey UKIRT United Kingdom Infrared Telescope URO University Radio Observatories USVAO U.S.
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From page 118...
... WEAVE WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer WFIRST Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope WHT William Herschel Telescope (Canary Islands 4.2-m telescope) WIRO Wyoming Infrared Observatory WISE Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer WIYN Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO Consortium 3.5-m telescope ZTF Zwicky Transient Facility
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Key Terms

  • survey telescope
  • sky survey
  • near infrared
  • spectroscopic telescope
  • decadal survey

  • infrared survey
  • infrared camera
  • survey report
  • adaptive optics
  • mirror telescope

  • infrared telescope
  • virtual observatory
  • space telescope
  • spectroscopic survey
  • energy survey

  • astrophysics decadal
  • baryon oscillation
  • astrophysical research
  • oscillation spectroscopic
  • canary islands

  • multiple mirror
  • telescope array
  • legacy survey
  • supernovae asm
  • infrared deep

  • kinetic inductance
  • survey collaboration
  • doppler spectrometer
  • science decadal
  • palomar observatory


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