The following list shows the abbreviations used in the proceedings with the
full expressions.
For the acronyms of astronomic objects see the
"List of Objects", p. 331, for
abbreviations of stellar constellations the list in the
"Astrophysical Data" homepage,
and for bibliographic codes see the homepage of "Bibliographic Code Abbreviations"
by ADS Abstract
Services, NASA.
The full list including all links is available on the
AIUB server at the WWW URL (currently selected):
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~webgk/ws98/abbrlst_a.html.
| 1D | one dimensional |
| 2D | two dimensional |
| 3D / 3-D | three dimensional |
| ABS | absolute position switching |
| ACIS | AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer |
| ADS | Astrophysics Data Service |
| AG | Astronomische Gesellschaft |
| AGB | asymptotic giant branch |
| AIUB | Astronomische Institute der Universität Bonn |
| ATCA | Australia Telescope's Compact Array |
| ATNF | Australia Telescope National Facility |
| AXAF | Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility |
| BCD/BCDG | blue compact dwarf (or H II) galaxie |
| BL | blue loop |
| BP | blue plume |
| b/p | box or peanut shaped (bulge morphology) |
| BTC | Big-Throughput Camera |
| CAFOS | Calar Alto Faint Object Spectrograph |
| CCD | charge coupled device |
| cd | chemodynamical |
| CDS | Centre de Données de Strasbourg |
| CEL | chemical enrichment law |
| CERN | European Laboratory for Particle Physics |
| CM | cloudy medium |
| CMD | colour-magnitude diagram |
| COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer |
| CPU | central processing unit |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
| CVZ | continuous viewing zone (s. HDF) |
| dE | dwarf elliptical galaxy |
| DEC | declination (≡ δ) |
| DeNIS | Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey |
| DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| DM | dark matter |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| dIrr/dI | dwarf irregular galaxy |
| dSph | dwarf spheroidal galaxy |
| EM | emission measure |
| EP | electronic publishing |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESO | European Southern Obsdervatory |
| EUV | extreme ultra-violet |
| EW | equivalent width |
| FCC | Fornax Cluster Catalog |
| FIR | far infrared |
| FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FUSE | Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer |
| FUV | far ultra-violet |
| FWHM | full width at half maximum |
| GC | globular cluster |
| GCS | globular cluster system |
| GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (HST) |
| GIS | Gas Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA) |
| GK | Graduiertenkolleg (Graduate Working Group) |
| GMCC | Giant Molecular Cloud Complex |
| H I | neutral hydrogen |
| H II | ionized hydrogen |
| H2 | molecular hydrogen |
| HB | horizontal branch |
| HDF | Hubble Deep Field (s. HST) |
| HeB | core Helium burning stars |
| HMS | high mass stars |
| HPBW | half power beam width |
| HRC | High Resolution Camera (AXAF) |
| HRD | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram |
| HRI | High Resolution Imager (ROSAT) |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope (s. STScI) |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HVC | high velocity cloud |
| ICM | intercloud medium |
| IES | IRAS Explanatory Supplement |
| IGM | intergalactic medium |
| IGM | intra-group medium |
| Im | irregular galaxy |
| IMF | initial mass function |
| IR | infrared |
| IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
| ISM | interstellar medium |
| ISO | Infrared Space Observatory |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer |
| IVC | indermediate velocity cloud |
| LBV | luminous blue variable |
| LBVN | luminous blue variable nebular |
| LDAC | Leiden Data Analysis Centre |
| LDS | Leiden/Dwingeloo 21 cm line survey |
| LF | luminosity function |
| LG | Local Group |
| LMS | low mass stars |
| LPV | long period variable |
| LSB | low surface brightness |
| LSBG | low surface brightness galaxy |
| LSR | local standard of rest |
| LVC | low velocity cloud |
| LWS | Long-Wavelength Spectrometer (ISO) |
| MF | mass function |
| MOND | modified Newtonian dynamics |
| MOST | Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope |
| MPG | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| MPI | Max-Planck-Institut |
| MPIfR | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie |
| MS | main sequence |
| MSTO | MS turnoff (stars) |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NED | NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |
| NGST | Next Generation Space Telescope (s. STScI) |
| NICMOS | Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object-Spectrometer (HST) |
| NOT | Nordic Optical Telescope |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| OHL | Observatorium Hoher List |
| OHP | Observatoire de Haute Provence |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer |
| PDAC | Paris Data Analysis Centre |
| PDS | Photometric Data System (see e.g. the microdensitometer at the Hamburger Sternwarte) |
| PG | primeval galaxies |
| PI | principal investigator |
| PMS | pre-main sequence |
| PN | planetary nebular |
| PO | Pointed Observation |
| PODPS | Post Observation Data Processing System |
| POSS | Palomar survey |
| PSF | point spread function |
| PSPC | Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (ROSAT) |
| RA | rectascrension (≡ α) |
| RC | red clump |
| RGB | red giant branch |
| ROSAT | Röntgen Satellit (X-ray satellite) |
| RSG | red super giant |
| SAAO | South African Astronomical Observatory |
| SB | surface brightness |
| SBBN | standard hot big bang model of nucleosynthesis |
| SBP | surface brightness profile |
| SED | spectral energy distribution |
| SEST | Swedish ESO Submillimeter Telescope |
| SF | star formation |
| SFH | star formation history |
| SFR | star formation rate |
| SGS | supergiant shell |
| SINS | Supernova INtensive Study |
| SIS | Solid-state Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA) |
| S/N | signal-to-noise ratio |
| SNR | supernova remnant |
| SSC | super-star clusters |
| SSPSF | stochastic self-propagating star formation |
| STIS | Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (HST) |
| STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute (s. HST) |
| TDG | tidal dwarf galaxy |
| TF | Tully-Fisher |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| UV | ultra-violet |
| VLA | Very Large Array |
| W3C | WWW Consortium |
| WFC | Wide Field Camera (HST) |
| WFPC | Wide Field and Planetary Camera (HST) |
| WR | Wolf-Rayet |
| WSRT | Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope |
| WWW / W3 | World Wide Web |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XSL | eXtensible Style Language |
| First version: | 19th | September, | 1998 |
| Last update: | 24th | October, | 1998 |