The following is a list of acronyms and abbreviations used in the MAST web pages. Where appropriate the mission or project using the item is also listed.
ACS -
(HST) - Advanced Camera for Surveys
ADC -
Astronomical Data Center (NASA/GSFC)
ADC - (EUVE) - Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADCCC - Astrophysics Data Centers Coordination Council
ADF -
Astrophyics Data Facility (NASA/GSFC)
ADS - Astrophysics Data System
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BCKGRD
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Background Determination Module
BBXRT
- Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
BEFS
- (ORFEUS) - Berkeley Extreme & Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph (BEFS)
CADC
- Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
CALUV
- (IUE) - Ultraviolet Flood Lamp
C/DH
- (EUVE) Command and Data Handler
CDI
- (IUE) - Core Data Item
CDP
- Command and Data Processor
CDS
- Astronomical Data Center of Strasbourg
CEA
- Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley)
CHIPS
- Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
COSTAR
- (HST) - Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
CRHI
- (IUE) - Cosmic Ray Image Extension to the SIHI (NEWSIPS)
CROSS-CORR
- (IUE) - Cross-Correlation Module
DADS
- (HST) - Data Archiving and Distribution System
DCG
- (IUE) - Data Coordination Group
DFFS
- (EUVE) - Digital Fine Sun Sensor
DMU
- (IUE) - Data Multiplexer Unit
DN
- (IUE) - Data Number (pixel intensity from the raw image)
DS/S
- (EUVE) - Deep Survey/Spectromenter
DSS
- (HST) - Digitized Sky Survey
EA/S
- (EUVE) - Effective Area
EBCDIC
- Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EGO
- EUVE Guest Observer
ELBL
- (IUE) - Extended Line-by-Line Image (IUESIPS)
EP
- (EUVE) - Explorer Platform
ESA
- European Space Agency
ESOC
- EUVE Science Operations Center
EXTRACT
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Boxcar Extraction Module
EUVE
- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
FADC
- (IUE) - Final Archive Definition Committee
FES
- (IUE) - Fine Error Sensor
FGS
- (HST) - Fine Guidance Sensor
FHST
- (EUVE) - Fixed Head Star Tracker
FIRST
- Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters
FITS
- Flexible Image Transport System
FN
- Flux Number (pixel intensity from the photometrically
corrected image)
FOC
- (HST) - Faint Object Camera
FOS
- (HST) - Faint Object Spectrograph
FOT
- (EUVE) - Flight Operations Team (NASA)
FPM
- (IUE) - Flux Particle Monitor
FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
FUSE
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FUV
- (UIT) - Far Ultraviolet detector
- (ORFEUS) -
Far Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrograph (referred to within
MAST
as the Tübingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrometer
(TUES))
FWHM
- Full Width at Half Maximum
GALEX
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer
GEOM
- (IUE) - Geometric Correction Module
GHRS
- (HST) - Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
GMT
- Greenwich Mean Time
GO
- (IUE) - Guest Observer
GSFC
- Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, Maryland
HDA
- (HST) - Hubble Data Archive
HEASARC
- High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HDF
- (HST) - Hubble Deep Field
HDF-S
- (HST) - Hubble Deep Field South
HEW
- (EUVE) - Half Energy Width
HDU
- (IUE) - Header and Data Unit
HSP
- (HST) - High Speed Photometer
HST
- Hubble Space Telescope
HUT
- Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
HW
- (WUPPE) - Halfwave polarimeter data
IDL
- Interactive Data Language (licensed software by
Research Systems,Inc.)
IMAPS
- (ORFEUS) -
Interstellar Absorption Medium Profile Spectrometer
INES
- (IUE) - IUE Newly Extracted Spectra
IOR
- (IUE) - Interorder Overlap Region
IRAF
- Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRU
- (EUVE) - Inertial Reference Unit
ISM
- Interstellar Medium
ISW
- (EUVE) Instrument Software
ITF
- Intensity Transfer Function
IUE
- International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUEDAC
- IUE Data Analysis Center
IUEOCC
- IUE Operations Control Center
IUESIPS
- IUE Spectral Image Processing System
IUESOC
- IUE Science Operations Center
LASP
- Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics at GSFC
LF
- (IUE) - Linearized-Flag Image (NEWSIPS)
LFHI
- (IUE) - Flag Image Extension to the LIHI (NEWSIPS)
LFLO
- (IUE) - Flag Image Extension to the LILO (NEWSIPS)
LI
- (IUE) - Linearized Image (NEWSIPS)
LIHI
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Linearized Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
LILO
- (IUE) - Low-Dispersion Linearized Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
LWLA
- (IUE) - Long Wavelength Large Aperture
LWP
- (IUE) - Long Wavelength Prime Camera
LWR
- (IUE) - Long Wavelength Redundant Camera
LWSA
- (IUE) - Long Wavelength Small Aperture
MACS
- (EUVE) - Modular Attitude Control System
MAST
- Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (renamed April 5, 2012) formerly
Multimission Archive at Space Telescope
MCP
- (EUVE) - Microchannel Plate
MDF
- (EUVE) - Minimum Detectable Flux
MDS
- (HST) - Medium Deep Survey
MIDAS
MMF
- (IUE) - Missing Minor Frame
MMS
- (EUVE) - Multi-Mission Spacecraft
MPS
- (EUVE) - Modular Power Subsystem
MX
- (IUE) - Merged Extracted Image (NEWSIPS)
MXHI
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Merged Extracted Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
MXLO
- (IUE) - Low-Dispersion Merged Extracted Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCOM
- NASA Astronomical Satellite Communications
NDADS
- NSSDC Data Archive and Distribution System
NED
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
NEWSIPS
- (IUE) - New Spectral Image Processing System
NICMOS
- (HST) - Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer
NIST
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOST
- NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology
NSSDC
- National Space Science Data Center (GSFC/NASA)
NUV
- (UIT) - Near Ultraviolet Detector
OBC
- On-board Computer (IUE)
ORDERG
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Order Registration Module (part of
RAW_SCREEN)
ORFEUS
- Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph
PED
- (EUVE) - Platform Equipment Deck
PEP
- (Copernicus) - Princeton Experiment Package
PHOTOM
- (IUE) - Photometric Correction Module
PI
- Primary Investigator
PIXEL
- Picture Element
POCC
- (EUVE) - Payload Operations and Command Center
POT
- (IUE) - Preplanned Observation Tape
PPARC
- Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
PSF
- Point Spread Function
PT-NE
- Platinum-Neon
QPOE
- (EUVE) - Quick Position Oriented Event
RA
- (IUE) - Resident Astronomer
RAL
- Rutherford Appleton Lab
RAW_SCREEN
- (IUE) - Raw Image Screening Module
RDAF
- (IUE) - Regional Data Analysis Center
RI
- (IUE) - Raw Image (NEWSIPS)
RIF
- (EUVE) - Relay Interface
RIHI
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Raw Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
RILO
- (IUE) - Low-Dispersion Raw Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
ROLO
- (IUE) - Original Raw Image Extension to the RILO (NEWSIPS)
ROSAT
- Röntgensatellit
SAA
- South Atlantic (Magnetic) Anomaly
SAG
- (EUVE) - Space Astrophysics Group
SCRIPTS
- (IUE) - Observing Specifications Log
SDSS - Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SEC
- (IUE) - Secondary Electron Conduction
SERC
- Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.)
(This council was incorporated as part of
PPARC)
SET
- (Copernicus) - Spacecraft Equivalent Time (15.72887 seconds)
SF
- (IUE) - Resampled Nu-Flag Image (NEWSIPS)
SFHI
- (IUE) - Nu-Flag Image Extension to the SIHI (NEWSIPS)
SFLO
- (IUE) - Nu-Flag Image Extension to the SILO (NEWSIPS)
SI
- (IUE) - Resampled Image (NEWSIPS)
SIHI
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Resampled Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
SILO
- (IUE) - Low-Dispersion Resampled Image FITS File (NEWSIPS)
SIMBAD
- Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
S/N
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SSDS
- Space Science Data System
STIS
- (HST) - Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
STScI
- Space Telescope Science Institute
STSDAS
- Science Telescope Science Data Analysis System
SWET
- (IUE) - Signal Weighted Extraction Technique Module
SWLA
- (IUE) - Short Wavelength Large Aperture
SWP
- (IUE) - Short Wavelength Prime Camera
SWR
- (IUE) - Short Wavelength Redundant Camera
SWSA
- (IUE) - Short Wavelength Small Aperture
TDRSS
- Tracking Data Relay Satellite System
TFLOOD
- (IUE) - Tungsten Flood Lamp
THDA
- (IUE) - Camera Head Amplifier Temperature
TIF
- (EUVE) - Telescope Interface
TM
- (EUVE) - Telemetry
TO
- (IUE) - Telescope Operator
TOO
- (EUVE) - Targets of Opportunity
TTDC
- (IUE) - Mean Dispersion Constant Correction Module
TUES
- (ORFEUS) -
Tuebingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrograph
UIT
- Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
ULDA
- (IUE) - Uniform Low-Dispersion Archive
UT
- Universal Time
UV
- Ultraviolet
UVC
- (IUE) - Ultraviolet to Visible Converter
UVFLOOD
- (IUE) - Ultraviolet Flood Lamp
VD
- (IUE) - Vector Displacements
VDHI
- (IUE) - High-Dispersion Vector Displacement Image FITS File
(NEWSIPS)
VDLO
- (IUE) - Low-Dispersion Vector Displacement Image FITS File
(NEWSIPS)
VICAR
- (IUE) - Video Image Communication and Retrieval
VILSPA
- Villafranca del Castillo, Spain - (European Ground Station for IUE)
VMS
- (IUE) - Virtual Management System
WAVECAL
- Wavelength Calibration
WF/PC-1
- (HST) - Wide Field and Planetary Camera 1
WFPC-2
- (HST) - Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
WLHI
- (IUE) - Wavelength Binary Table Extension to the SIHI (NEWSIPS)
WUPPE
- Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
XC
- (IUE) - Cross-Correlation Coefficients
XCHI
- (IUE) - Cross-Correlation Binary Table Extension to the VDHI (NEWSIPS)
XCLO
- (IUE) - Cross-Correlation Binary Table Extension to the VDLO (NEWSIPS)