AAP | Astrophysical and Application Product |
AGN | Active Galactic Nuclei |
AOT | Astronomical Observation Template |
ATCA | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
BG | Big Grains |
CAM | caméra à bord d'ISO |
CFHT | Canada France Hawaii Telescope |
CFRS | Canada France Redshift Survey |
CIB | Cosmic Infrared Background |
COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer |
CMB | Cosmic Microwave Background |
CSO | Caltech Submillimeter Observatory |
DEA | Diplôme d'études approfondies (troisième cycle) |
DEUG | Diplôme d'études universitaire général (premier cycle) |
DIRBE | Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment, à bord de COBE |
DMR | Differential Microwave Radiometer, à bord de COBE |
DR | Destructive Readout |
DRAO | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory |
EBL | Extragalactic Background Light |
ELAIS | European Large Area ISO Survey |
ERD | Edited Raw Data |
ESA | European Space Agency |
FCS | Fine Calibration Source, dans PHOT |
FIRAS | Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer, à bord de COBE |
FIRBACK | Far Infrared Background |
FIRST | Far Infrared and Submillimeter Space Telescope |
FN1 | champ FIRBACK North 1 |
FN2 | champ FIRBACK North 2 |
FSM | champ FIRBACK South Marano |
HDF | Hubble Deep Field |
HFI | High Frequency Instrument, à bord de Planck |
HIFI | Heterodyne Instrument for FIRST |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
IAP | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
IAS | Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale |
IDL | Interactive Data Langage |
LF | Fonction de Luminosité |
IR | infrarouge |
IRAC | Infrared Array Camera, à bord de SIRTF |
IRAM | Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique |
IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
IRIS | Infrared Imaging Surveyor |
IRTS | Infrared Telescope in Space |
IRS | Infrared Spectrometer, à bord de SIRTF |
ISO | Infrared Space Observatory |
ISOCAM | voir CAM |
ISOPHOT | voir PHOT |
JCMT | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
KAO | Kuiper Airborne Observatory |
LFI | Low Frequency Instrument, à bord de Planck |
LWS | Long Wavelength Spectrometer, à bord d'ISO |
MAMBO | Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer Camera |
MIPS | Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF |
NASA | National Aeronotics and Space Administration |
NDR | Non Destructive Readout |
OTAC | ISO Observing Time Allocation Committee |
PACS | Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer, à bord de FIRST |
PAH | Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
PHOT | photomètre à bord d'ISO |
PIA | Phot Interactive Analysis |
PSF | Point Spread Function |
SCP | Signal per Chopper Plateau |
SCUBA | Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array |
SHARC | Submillimeter High-Angular Resolution Camera |
SIRTF | Space Infrared Telescope Facility |
SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
SPIRE | Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, à bord de FIRST |
SPD | Standard Processed Data |
SRD | Signal per Ramp Data |
SWS | Short Wavelength Spectrometer, à bord d'ISO |
submm | submillimétrique |
ULIRG | Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy |
UV | ultraviolet |
VLA | Very Large Array |
VLT | Very Large Telescope |
VSG | Very Small Grains |
WFPC2 | Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, à bord de HST |
WIRE | Wide Field Infrared Explorer |
WHAM | Wisconsin H Alpha Mapper |