Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation |
Full Form |
A&G |
Acquisition & Guiding |
AAS |
American Astronomical Society |
ABOD |
AURA Board of Directors |
AD |
Associate Director |
ADO |
Associate Director’s Office |
AEON |
Astronomical Event Observatory Network |
AFOps |
Arizona Facilities Operations (COS) |
AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
ALMA |
Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array |
AMCL |
AURA Management Council for LSST |
AMCR |
AURA Management Council for Rubin Observatory |
ANTARES |
Arizona-NOIRLab Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System |
AO |
Adaptive Optics |
AOCG |
AURA Observatory Council for Gemini |
API |
Application Programming Interface |
ARO |
Arizona Radio Observatory |
ASM |
Adaptive Secondary Mirror |
AST |
Astronomical Sciences (NSF) |
Astro2020 |
Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics |
AURA |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
AURA-O |
AURA Observatory in Chile |
BFA |
Budget, Finance, and Award Management |
CA |
Cooperative Agreement |
CAS |
Central Administrative Services (AURA) |
CDO |
CSDC Director’s Office |
CEE |
Communications, Education & Engagement |
CET |
Community Engagement Team (Rubin) |
CFOps |
Chile Facilities Operations |
CLP |
Chilean pesos |
CLT |
Chile Standard Time |
CMB |
Cosmic Microwave Background |
COS |
Center Operations Services |
COSMOS |
Cerro Tololo Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph |
COVID-19 |
Coronavirus Disease 2019 |
CPS |
References the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Interference. |
CSA |
Cooperative Support Agreement |
CSDC |
Community Science and Data Center |
CTIO |
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
CTO |
Chief Technology Officer |
DD |
Deputy Director |
DECam |
Dark Energy Camera |
DEI |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
DES |
Dark Energy Survey |
DESI |
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument |
DKIST |
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope |
DMO |
Data Management Operations |
DMP |
Document Management Plan or Data Management Plan, depending on context |
DMS |
Data Management Services |
DOE |
Department of Energy |
DP |
Data Preview |
DR |
Data Release |
DRAGONS |
Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South |
DST |
US Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope |
E&E |
Education & Engagement (CEE) |
EHS |
Environmental, Health and Safety (COS) |
ELT |
Extremely Large Telescope |
EPICS |
Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System |
EPO |
Education & Public Outreach |
ERMP |
Enterprise Risk and Management Plan |
ES |
Engineering Services |
ESO |
European Southern Observatory |
F&A |
Facilities and Administrative |
FDR |
Final Design Review |
FFRDC |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center |
FMEA |
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis |
FOMA |
Facilities Operations Mountain Arizona |
FRA |
Fermi Research Alliance |
FTE |
Full-Time Equivalent |
FY |
Fiscal Year |
GA |
General Assembly |
GBS |
Gemini-Blanco-SOAR in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy |
GEMMA |
Gemini Observatory in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy |
GeMS |
Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System |
GHOST |
Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph |
GIRMOS |
Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph |
GLAO |
Ground Layer Adaptive Optics |
GLN |
Gemini LSST NOAO |
GMOS |
Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph |
GMT |
Giant Magellan Telescope |
GMTO |
Non-profit organization building the Giant Magellan Telescope |
GN |
Gemini North |
GNAO |
Gemini North Adaptive Optics |
GNIRS |
Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph |
GONG |
Global Oscillation Network Group |
GPI |
Gemini Planet Imager |
GPOL |
Gemini Polarization module (obsolete) |
GRACES |
Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph |
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSMT |
Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope |
GSV |
Gemini Strategic Vision |
HBF |
Hilo Base Facility |
HFOps |
Hawaiʻi Facilities Operations (COS) |
HPO |
(Rubin) Head of Program Operations |
HQ |
Headquarters |
HR |
Human Resources |
HST |
Hawai‘i Standard Time |
IAU |
International Astronomical Union |
IDF |
Interim Data Facility |
IFU |
Integral Field Unit |
IGRINS-2 |
Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph (IGRINS)–2 |
IP |
Intellectual Property |
IR |
Infrared |
ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
ISPI |
Infrared Side Port Imager |
IT |
Information Technology |
ITAR |
International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
ITOps |
Information Technology Operations |
JMC |
Joint Management Council |
JWST |
James Webb Space Telescope |
KASI |
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute |
KMTNet |
Korean Microlensing Telescope Network |
KP |
Kitt Peak |
KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
KPMO |
Kitt Peak Mountain Operations |
KPNO |
Kitt Peak National Observatory |
KPVC |
Kitt Peak Visitor Center |
KSP |
Key Science Program |
L1, L2 |
Level 1, Level 2 |
LBNL |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LCO |
Las Cumbres Observatory |
LCOGT |
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope |
LEO |
Low Earth Orbit |
LIGO |
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
LOTIS |
Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System |
LSST |
Legacy Survey of Space and Time |
LSSTC |
LSST Corporation |
M2 |
Mirror 2 |
MAROON-X |
M dwarf Advanced Radial velocity Observer Of Neighboring eXoplanets |
MCU |
Mount Control Unit |
MDM |
Michigan Dartmouth MIT Observatory |
MEARTH |
M dwarf stars in search of new Earth like exoplanets |
MK |
Maunakea |
MMA |
Multi-Messenger Astronomy |
MOS |
Multi-Object Spectroscopy |
MOU |
Memorandum Of Understanding |
MREFC |
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (NSF) |
MSO |
Mid-Scale Observatories |
MSRI |
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure |
MSS |
Management Support Services |
MST |
Mountain Standard Time |
MTDC |
Modified Total Direct Cost |
NAOJ |
National Astronomy Observatory Japan |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NEC |
NCOA Executive Council |
NEID |
NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler Spectroscopy |
NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
NEWFIRM |
NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Imager |
NGO |
National Gemini Office |
NIRI |
Near-Infrared Imager (on Gemini North) |
NMOC |
NOIRLab Management Oversight Council |
NN-EXPLORE |
NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research |
NOAO |
National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
NOIRLab |
National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory |
NOP |
Nightly Observing Program (KPVC) |
NRAO |
National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
NRC |
National Research Council (Canada) |
NSB |
National Science Board |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NSO |
National Solar Observatory |
O&M |
Operations & Maintenance |
OC |
Observatory Council |
OCS |
Observatory Control System |
ODI |
One Degree Imager |
OIR |
Optical Infrared |
OLDS |
Organizational Learning and Development Specialist |
OMO |
Organization, Management, Operations |
OMP |
Observation Management Package |
OPCC |
Northern Chile Skies Quality Protection Office |
Operations |
Operations (COS) |
PAN-STARRS |
Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System |
PDR |
Preliminary Design Review |
PEMP |
Program Management and Evaluation Plan |
PEP |
Project Execution Plan |
PI |
Principal Investigator |
PIO |
Public Information & Outreach (Gemini); Public Information Office |
PMD |
Project Management Department |
PMO |
Portfolio Management Office |
POP |
Program Operating Plan |
PPE |
personal protective equipment |
PROMPT |
Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes |
PRP |
Program Review Panel (NSF) |
PRT |
Personal Research Time |
PSE |
Project Systems Engineering |
Q |
Quarter |
RCT |
Robotically Controlled Telescope |
RDO |
Rubin Operations Director’s Office |
RDP |
Rubin Operations Data Production |
REO |
Rubin Operations Education and Public Outreach |
RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
RFP |
Request for Proposal |
RII |
Research Inclusion Initiative |
ROO |
Rubin Observatory Operations |
RSP |
Rubin Operations System Performance |
RSS |
Research and Science Services |
RTC |
Real Time Controller |
RV |
Radial Velocity |
SARA |
Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy |
SBS |
Shared Business Services |
SCOC |
Survey Cadence Optimization Committee |
SCORPIO |
Spectrograph and Camera for Observations of Rapid Phenomena |
SDSS |
Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
SLAC |
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
SMARTS |
Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System |
SOAR |
Southern Astrophysical Research telescope |
SOLARIO |
SOLAR & Imaging Observatory |
SSO |
Single-Sign-On |
STAC |
Science and Technology Advisory Committee |
STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
STScl |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
SUNY |
State University New York |
SUSD |
Science User Support department (Gemini) |
SW |
Software |
TAC |
Time Allocation Committee |
TBD |
To Be Determined |
TCC |
Telescope Control Console |
TCS |
Telescope Control System |
TDA |
time-domain astronomy |
TDS |
Time-Domain Services |
TelOps |
Telescope Operations |
TMT |
Thirty Meter Telescope |
TOM |
Target Observation Manager |
U of A |
University of Arizona |
UC |
University of California |
UI |
University of Illinois |
UNC-CH |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
UPP |
US-ELT Program Platform |
URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
US-ELTP |
US Extremely Large Telescope Program |
UW |
University of Washington |
VC |
Visiting Committee |
VoIP |
Voice Over Internet Protocol |
VVT |
Verification and Validation Team |
WBS |
Work Breakdown Structure |
WHAM |
Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper |
WIYN |
Consortium consisting of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, NOIRLab, and the University of Missouri (previously Yale University was a member) |
WKU |
Western Kentucky University |
WoU-MMA |
Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics |
WUCAO |
Windows on the Universe Center for Astronomy Outreach |
ZTF |
Zwicky Transient Facility |
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