SKA acronyms
Acronyms commonly used by the SKA community.
A
AIV – Assembly, Integration and Verification
APERTIF – The focal-plane array system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
ASKAP – Australian SKA Pathfinder
ASTRON – Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
ATA – Allen Telescope Array
ATCA – Australian Telescope Compact Array
AVN – African VLBI Network
C
CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research
CET54 – Radio Telescope Developed in China
CIRA – Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
CITA – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
CMB – Cosmic Microwave Background
CNRS – Nancay Radio Telescope (France)
CNR-IEIIT – Consignio Nazionale della Richerche – Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
CSIRO – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CSP – Central Signal Processor
D
DSH – Dish
DST – Department of Science and Technology (South Africa)
E
EOI – Expression of Interest
ESO – European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
EVLA – Extended Very Large Array
F
FAST – The Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
FOV – Field of View
G
GLOW – German Long Wavelengths Consortium
H
H1 – Hydrogen 1 (Neutral Hydrogen Line)
HERA – Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array radio telescope
HST – Hubble Space Telescope
I
I&AP – Interested and affected parties
ICRAR – International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
IP – Intellectual Property
INAF – Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
IRCOM – Institute de de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes
IVEC – The government-supported high-performance computing centre of Western Australia
J
JIVE – Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
JVLA – Jansky Very Large Array
K
KAT-7 – The seven-dish MeerKAT precursor array
L
LAP – Land Acquisitions Process
LFAA – Low-Frequency Aperture Array
LNA – Low Noise Amplifier
LOFAR – Low Frequency Array
LWA – Long Wavelength Array
M
MeerKAT – South African MeerKAT radio telescope
MFAA – Mid-Frequency Aperture Array
MWA – Murchison Widefield Array
N
NAO – National Astronomical Observatory
NCRA – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
NRAO – National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRC – National Research Council (Canada)
NRF – National Research Foundation (South Africa)
P
PAF – Phased Array Feed
PAPER – Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Re-ionisation project
PaST – Primeval Structure Telescope
R
RFP – Request for Proposals
S
SaDT – Signal and Data Transport
SDP- Science Data Processor
SEA – Strategic Environmental Assessment
SETI – Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
SKA – Square Kilometre Array
SKACOWG – SKA Communications and Outreach Working Group
SKAMP – SKA Molonglo Prototype
SKAO – Square Kilometre Array Organisation
STFC – Science and Technology Facilities Couoncil
SWG – Science Working Group
T
TM – Telescope Manager
TRDDC – Tata Research Development and Design Centre
U
UCL – University College London
V
VLA – Very Large Array
VLBI – Very Long Baseline Interferometry
W
WBSPF – Wideband Single Pixel Feeds
WSRT – Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
Last Updated on July 14, 2017
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