| 1D | one dimensional
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| 2D | two dimensional
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| 3D / 3-D | three dimensional
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| ABS | absolute position switching
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| ACIS | AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer
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| ADS | Astrophysics Data
Service
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| AG | Astronomische Gesellschaft
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| AGB | asymptotic giant branch
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| AIUB | Astronomische Institute der
Universität Bonn
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| ATCA | Australia
Telescope's Compact Array
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| ATNF | Australia Telescope
National Facility
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| AXAF | Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
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| BCD/BCDG | blue compact dwarf (or H II) galaxie
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| BL | blue loop
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| BP | blue plume
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| b/p | box or peanut shaped (bulge morphology)
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| BTC
| Big-Throughput
Camera
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| CAFOS | Calar Alto
Faint Object Spectrograph
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| CCD | charge coupled device
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| cd | chemodynamical
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| CDS | Centre de
Données de Strasbourg
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| CEL | chemical enrichment law
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| CERN
| European Laboratory for Particle
Physics
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| CM | cloudy medium
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| CMD | colour-magnitude diagram
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| COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer
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| CPU | central processing unit
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| CSS | Cascading Style
Sheets
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| CTIO | Cerro Tololo
Inter-American Observatory
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| CVZ | continuous viewing zone (s. HDF)
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| dE | dwarf elliptical galaxy
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| DEC | declination (≡ δ)
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| DeNIS | Deep Near Infrared
Southern Sky Survey
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| DFG | Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
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| DM | dark matter
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| DOM
| Document Object Model
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| dIrr/dI | dwarf irregular galaxy
|
| dSph | dwarf spheroidal galaxy
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| EM | emission measure
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| EP | electronic publishing
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| ESA | European Space Agency
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| ESO | European
Southern Obsdervatory
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| EUV | extreme ultra-violet
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| EW | equivalent width
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| FCC | Fornax Cluster Catalog
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| FIR | far infrared
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| FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol
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| FUSE | Far
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer
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| FUV | far ultra-violet
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| FWHM | full width at half maximum
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| GC | globular cluster
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| GCS | globular cluster system
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| GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
(HST)
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| GIS | Gas Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA)
|
| GK | Graduiertenkolleg
(Graduate Working Group)
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| GMCC | Giant Molecular Cloud Complex
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| H I | neutral hydrogen
|
| H II | ionized hydrogen
|
| H2 | molecular hydrogen
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| HB | horizontal branch
|
| HDF | Hubble Deep Field
(s. HST)
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| HeB | core Helium burning stars
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| HMS | high mass stars
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| HPBW | half power beam width
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| HRC | High Resolution Camera (AXAF)
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| HRD | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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| HRI | High Resolution Imager (ROSAT)
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| HST | Hubble Space Telescope
(s. STScI)
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| HTML | HyperText Markup
Language
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| HVC | high velocity cloud
|
| ICM | intercloud medium
|
| IES | IRAS Explanatory Supplement
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| IGM | intergalactic medium
|
| IGM | intra-group medium
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| Im | irregular galaxy
|
| IMF | initial mass function
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| IR | infrared
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| IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite
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| ISM | interstellar medium
|
| ISO | Infrared Space
Observatory
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| IUE | International
Ultraviolet Explorer
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| IVC | indermediate velocity cloud
|
| LBV | luminous blue variable
|
| LBVN | luminous blue variable nebular
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| LDAC | Leiden Data Analysis Centre
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| LDS | Leiden/Dwingeloo 21 cm line survey
|
| LF | luminosity function
|
| LG | Local Group
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| LMS | low mass stars
|
| LPV | long period variable
|
| LSB | low surface brightness
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| LSBG | low surface brightness galaxy
|
| LSR | local standard of rest
|
| LVC | low velocity cloud
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| LWS | Long-Wavelength Spectrometer (ISO)
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| MF | mass function
|
| MOND | modified Newtonian dynamics
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| MOST
| Molonglo
Observatory Synthesis Telescope
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| MPG | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
|
| MPI | Max-Planck-Institut
|
| MPIfR | Max-Planck-Institut
für Radioastronomie
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| MS | main sequence
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| MSTO | MS turnoff (stars)
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| NASA | National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
|
| NED | NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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| NGST | Next Generation Space
Telescope (s. STScI)
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| 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
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| 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
|