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==Motivation==
At the 2012 General Assembly of the ] (the international peak body for professional ]), the organising committee of IAU Commission 5 (Data and Information) requested the creation of the following list of Astronomical Acronyms on Misplaced Pages. This list is not definitive but reflects current usage amongst professional ].


==List of Acronyms==

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==A==
* AAS ] – the primary association of professional astronomers in the United States
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* ADS ]/] astrophysics data system], an on-line database of almost all astronomical publications
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* AGN – ] – the nucleus of a ] that contains an active massive ]
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* AIPS ] – a widely used software package used for processing ] data
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* AMANDA ] – a ] telescope located at a depth of 1.5 – 1.9 km below the ice in Antarctica.
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* ARCADE ] – a ] experiment to measure the heating of the ] by the first ] and ] after the ].
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* ASKAP ] – a next-generation ] under construction in Western Australia. It differs from previous radio-telescopes in having many ] at the ] of each ].
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* ATCA ], a ] in ] operated by ].
* ATLAS – a deep ] ] of two fields covering a total of about 7 square degrees of sky.

==B==
* BLAST ] – a ] telescope that hangs from a ], operated by a multi-university consortium headed by the ]
* BOOMERanG ]

==C==
* CANGAROO Collaboration between Australian and Nippon for a Gamma Ray Observatory in the Outback - a very high energy cosmic ] observatory, located on the ] in ]. <ref> The University of Adelaide. Retrieved 17 September 2011.</ref>
* CARA - an organisation that operates an observatory at the ], including several different ] from different research groups.
* CARMA ] - an array of millimetre-wave ] located near ], ]
* CDFS ] - a ] surveyed by many telescopes at different wavelengths, first selected for deep field observations by the ]
* CDM ] is a hypothetical form of ] thought to account for 80% of matter in the Universe.
* CDS ] – a major astronomical data centre
* CMB ] thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly
* CME – ]
* COSMOS The ] a ] surveyed by many telescopes at different wavelengths, first selected as a ] Treasury Project to survey a two square degree equatorial field with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
* CV – cataclysmic variable, a type of active ]

==D==

* DM ] – the unidentified non-] matter responsible for 80% of matter in the Universe.

==E==
* EGS ] – a ] surveyed by many telescopes at different wavelengths
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* EGRET ] - a ] ] mounted on board ] ]
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* ELAIS ] Large-area infrared survey – a survey which named three ] (ELAIS-North, ELAIS-South1, ELAIS-South2) which are used for deep sky surveys
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* ELF Extremely Luminous Far-infrared Galaxy, a synonym for ] - a ] which emits more than 10<sup>12</sup> solar luminosities in the ] part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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* EMU – a planned radio survey of the sky which will use the new ] ] to make a radio survey of the sky, producing a catalogue of 70 million ].
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* ESA ]
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* ESO ]
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* EVN ] – a collaboration of the major radio astronomical institutes in Europe, Asia and South Africa to perform high angular resolution observations of cosmic radio sources.

==F==
* FITS ]

==G==
* GBT ] – the world's largest fully steerable ] operated by the ] at ], West Virginia, US.
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* GMRT ]
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* GOODS ]

==H==
* HDF ] - a ] surveyed by many telescopes at different wavelengths, first selected for deep field observations by the ]
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* HDFS ] - a ] surveyed by many telescopes at different wavelengths, first selected for deep field observations by the ]
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* HLIRG ] - a ] which emits more than 10<sup>13</sup> solar luminosities in the ] part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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* HOPS
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* HST ]

==I==
* IAU ]
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* IRAM ]

==J==
* JBO ] A radio observatory in England. Part of ].
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* JIVE ]

==L==
* LCDM or ΛCDM ] – a ] model in which the universe contains a ], denoted by Lambda, and ]. It is frequently referred to as the '''standard model''' of ] ].
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* LIRG ] - a ] which emits more than 10<sup>11</sup> solar luminosities in the ] part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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* LOFAR The ] low-frequency synthesis array, based in the ]
* LSST ]

==M==
* MACHO ] – a class of objects once hypothesised to be the cause of ]
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* MALT Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team – including and MALT45
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* MERLIN ]. A seven-telescope radio interferometer – maximum baseline ~200km – operated from ]
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* MBH – massive ]
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* MUSYC

==N==
* NASA ]
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* NED ]
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* NOAO ] – one of the major optical observatory organisations in the USA
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* NRAO ] – the premier radio observatory in the US
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* NRAL ] – the former name for Jodrell Bank Observatory
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* NVSS A major survey of the sky produced in 1998 using the ] ]


==P==
* POSSUM – a ] survey to be conducted with the new ] ]
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* PRIMUS – a large of several deep fields

==S==
* SAO ]
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* SKA ] – a next-generation ] to be built in Australia and South Africa
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* SMBH – super-massive ]
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* SWIRE – a large deep survey carried out with the ] space telescope
==T==
* TABLEAUX – ]
* TCC – ]
* TPHOLs – ]
* TSD – ]

==U==
* UAI – the French name for the ], and one of its two official names
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* ULIRG ] - a ] which emits more than 10<sup>12</sup> solar luminosities in the ] part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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==V==
* VISTA a 4-m diameter ] operated by the ], and located in ].
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* VLA – a large ] located in ], operated by the ]
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* VLBI ] – a technique used in ] involving the use of ] separated by hundreds or thousands of km.
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* VLT ] – one of the world's largest ], operated by the ]

==W==
* WALLABY is a survey of neutral ] in ] to be conducted with the new ] ]
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* WIMP ] – a class of objects hypothesised to be the cause of ]
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* WSRT ]


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==References==
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