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| - | * WCU: Warm Calibration Unit | + | based on METIS consortium document E-LIS-NOVA-MET-0042_0-2_Abbreviations_and_AcronymsList version 0D2, 4 Oct 2016; with additions (see Wiki change log) |
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| + | *AC Alternating Current | ||
| + | *AD Applicable Document | ||
| + | *ADC Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator | ||
| + | *ADC Analog to Digital Converter | ||
| + | *ADI Angular Differential Imaging | ||
| + | *AGPM Annular Groove Phase Mask | ||
| + | *AI Action Item | ||
| + | *AIT Assembly, | ||
| + | *AIV Assembly, | ||
| + | *ALMA Atacama Large Milimetre Array | ||
| + | *alt altitude | ||
| + | *ANF Antofagasta | ||
| + | *AO Adaptive Optics | ||
| + | *AOP AO Pick-off | ||
| + | *AO RTC Adaptive Optics Real Time Computer | ||
| + | *AOWFC Adaptive Optics Wave-Front-Sensor Camera | ||
| + | *APP Apodizing Phase Plate | ||
| + | *AR Anti-Reflective | ||
| + | *arcmin arc minute | ||
| + | *arcsec arc second | ||
| + | *ART Adaptive Relay Tower | ||
| + | *ARU Adaptive Relay Unit | ||
| + | *ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange | ||
| + | *ATE Automatic Test Equipment | ||
| + | *ATP Acceptance Test Plan | ||
| + | *ATR Acceptance Test Report | ||
| + | *AU Astronomical Unit | ||
| + | *az azimuth | ||
| + | *BFL Back Focal Length | ||
| + | *BITE Built-In-Test-Equipment | ||
| + | *BOL Beginning of Life | ||
| + | *BOM Bill Of Material | ||
| + | *C Centigrade | ||
| + | *CAD Computer Added Design | ||
| + | *CB Circuit Breaker | ||
| + | *CCB Changed Control Board | ||
| + | *CCD Charged Coupled Device | ||
| + | *CCS Cold Central Structure | ||
| + | *CCS Central Control System/ | ||
| + | *CD Compact Disk | ||
| + | *CDR Conceptual Design Review | ||
| + | *CE Common Elements | ||
| + | *CE Conformité Européenne | ||
| + | *CE Constraint Equation | ||
| + | *CEN European Committee for Standardisation | ||
| + | *CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation | ||
| + | *CETOP Comité Européenne des Transmissions Oléohydrauliques et Pneumatiques (Euroean Fluid Power Committee) | ||
| + | *CF ConFlat - high vacuum connection system using metallic gasket | ||
| + | *CFC Continuous Flow Cryostat | ||
| + | *CFO Common Fore Optics | ||
| + | *CFP Call for Proposals | ||
| + | *CFRP Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic | ||
| + | *CHO Chopper | ||
| + | *CI Configuration Item | ||
| + | *CIDL Configuration Item Data List | ||
| + | *CII Core Integration Infrastructure | ||
| + | *CM Consortium Meeting | ||
| + | *CM (CM1, CM2…) Curved Mirror | ||
| + | *CMMS Computerised Maintenance Management System | ||
| + | *CoG Centre of Gravity | ||
| + | *COM Commissioning Phase | ||
| + | *Co-PI Co-Principal Investigator | ||
| + | *COTS Commercial Off The Shelf (products) | ||
| + | *CPL Common Pipeline Library | ||
| + | *CPU Central Processing Unit | ||
| + | *CRE Change Request | ||
| + | *CRE-PF Change Request Proposal Form | ||
| + | *CRE-SF Change Request Submission Form | ||
| + | *CRIRES CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph | ||
| + | *CRY CryoVacuum | ||
| + | *CST Cold Stop | ||
| + | *CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion | ||
| + | *DAC Digital to Analog Converter | ||
| + | *DC Direct Current | ||
| + | *DCS Detector Control System | ||
| + | *DD Deliverable Document | ||
| + | *DEC Declination | ||
| + | *DET Detector Subsystem | ||
| + | *DFE Detector Front-End Electronics | ||
| + | *DFI Data Flow Infrastructure Department of SDD | ||
| + | *DFS Data Flow System | ||
| + | *DG Director General | ||
| + | *DIC Data Interface Control | ||
| + | *DICB Data Interface Control Board | ||
| + | *DICD Data Interface Control Document | ||
| + | *DID Data Interface Dictionary | ||
| + | *DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung | ||
| + | *DIT Detector Integration Time | ||
| + | *DLR Damage Limitation Requirement | ||
| + | *DM Deformable Mirror | ||
| + | *DMD Data Management Division | ||
| + | *DMO Data Management and Operations Division of ESO | ||
| + | *DN Nominal Diameter | ||
| + | *DoC Declaration of Conformity | ||
| + | *DoE Directorate of Engineering | ||
| + | *DOF Degree of Freedom | ||
| + | *DoI Declaration of Incorporation | ||
| + | *DoO Director of Operations | ||
| + | *DOORS Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System | ||
| + | *DoP Director of Programmes | ||
| + | *DoS Director of Science | ||
| + | *DPQC Data Products and Quality Control Group of DMO | ||
| + | *DRD Document Requirements Definition | ||
| + | *DRL Data Reduction Library | ||
| + | *DRS Data Reduction System | ||
| + | *DSO Divisional Safety Officer | ||
| + | *E2V, | ||
| + | *EC European Commission | ||
| + | *EDP External Data Product | ||
| + | *EELT European Extremely Large Telescope | ||
| + | *E-ELT European Extremely Large Telescope | ||
| + | *EFL Effective Focal Length | ||
| + | *EFOV Effective Field Of View | ||
| + | *EFTA European Free Trade Association | ||
| + | *EH Entrance Hall | ||
| + | *EHSR Essential Health and Safety Requirements | ||
| + | *EIR ESO Instrument Responsible | ||
| + | *ELFN Extra Low Frequency Noise | ||
| + | *ELT Extremely Large Telescope | ||
| + | *EM Electromagnetic | ||
| + | *EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility | ||
| + | *EMI Electromagnetic | ||
| + | *EN European Standard (Norm) | ||
| + | *EOL End of Life | ||
| + | *EQ Earthquake | ||
| + | *ES Edge Sensor | ||
| + | *ESD Electrostatic Discharge | ||
| + | *ESO European Southern Observatory | ||
| + | *ESO European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere | ||
| + | *ETC Exposure Time Calculator | ||
| + | *ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute | ||
| + | *EU European Union | ||
| + | *EUT Equipment Under Test | ||
| + | *EW Entrance Window | ||
| + | *FAR Functional Acceptance Review | ||
| + | *FDIR Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery | ||
| + | *FDR Final Design Review | ||
| + | *FE Finite Element | ||
| + | *FEA Finite Element Analysis | ||
| + | *FEM Finite Element Model | ||
| + | *FF Feedforward | ||
| + | *FITS Flexible Image Transport System | ||
| + | *FL Focal Length | ||
| + | *FM (FM1, FM2…) Folding Mirror (flat) | ||
| + | *FMECA Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis | ||
| + | *FO Fore Optics | ||
| + | *FOV, FoV Field of View | ||
| + | *FP (FP1, FP2, | ||
| + | *FPA Focal Plane Assembly | ||
| + | *FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array | ||
| + | *FPS, fps Frames Per Second | ||
| + | *FPT Flat Platform Truck | ||
| + | *FPWFS Focal Plane WaveFront Sensing | ||
| + | *FS Field Stabilization | ||
| + | *FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum | ||
| + | *G10 Glass fibre/epoxy insulating material | ||
| + | *Gbytes Gigabytes | ||
| + | *GTO Guaranteed Time Observations | ||
| + | *GUI Graphical User Interface | ||
| + | *H2RG Hawaii II RG (infrared detector array produced by Teledyne Imaging Systems) | ||
| + | *HA Hazard Analysis | ||
| + | *HALT Highly Accelerated Life Test | ||
| + | *HAWK-I High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager | ||
| + | *HCI High Contrast Imaging | ||
| + | *HDRL High-Level Data Reduction Library | ||
| + | *HDU FITS Header + Data Unit | ||
| + | *HF High Frequency | ||
| + | *HFT Hardware Failure Tolerance | ||
| + | *HoA Head of Administration | ||
| + | *HoD Head of Division | ||
| + | *HR High Resolution | ||
| + | *HRS High Resolution Spectrometer | ||
| + | *HSM Health Status and Monitoring | ||
| + | *HST Hubble Space Telescope | ||
| + | *HTML Hypertext Markup Language | ||
| + | *HVAC Heating, | ||
| + | *HW Hardware | ||
| + | *HX Heat Exchanger | ||
| + | *Hz Hertz | ||
| + | *I/ | ||
| + | *I/ | ||
| + | *IAA Instrument Assembly Area at Armazones | ||
| + | *ICD Interface Control Document | ||
| + | *ICS Instrument Control System/ | ||
| + | *ID Identification Number | ||
| + | *IDD Instrument Description Database | ||
| + | *IDF Instrument Definition File of an Exposure Time Calculator | ||
| + | *IDP Internal Data Product | ||
| + | *IEC International Electrotechnical Commission | ||
| + | *IFM Integral Field Mode | ||
| + | *IFM Interface Matrix | ||
| + | *IFOV Instantaneous Field Of View | ||
| + | *IFS Integral Field Spectrograph | ||
| + | *IFU Integral Field Unit | ||
| + | *IFV Interface Visualization | ||
| + | *ILS Interlock and Safety System | ||
| + | *IMG Imager | ||
| + | *INC Instrument Control | ||
| + | *INL Integral | ||
| + | *INS? | ||
| + | *INS? | ||
| + | *IOT Instrument Observing Template | ||
| + | *IP Inspection Point | ||
| + | *IP International Protection Marking (IEC 60529) | ||
| + | *IQ Image Quality | ||
| + | *IR Infrared | ||
| + | *IRM Integration Readiness Meeting | ||
| + | *ISDD Instrument Software Design Description | ||
| + | *ISFS Instrument Software Functional Specification | ||
| + | *ISMP Instrument Software Management Plan | ||
| + | *ISO International Standards Organisation | ||
| + | *ISRM Installation Readiness Meeting | ||
| + | *ISUM Instrument Software User and Maintenance Manual | ||
| + | *ISURS Instrument Software User Requirement Specification | ||
| + | *ITE Information Technology Equipment | ||
| + | *IWS Instrument Workstation | ||
| + | *JWST James Web Space Telescope | ||
| + | *K Kelvin | ||
| + | *KF Klein-Flange - easily dismountable vacuum connection system | ||
| + | *Kg Kilogram | ||
| + | *KM Key Milestone | ||
| + | *KM (KM1, KM2, | ||
| + | *KO Kick-off | ||
| + | *KOM Kick-Off Meeting | ||
| + | *L (L1, L2, | ||
| + | *LAN Local Area Network | ||
| + | *LCS Local Control System | ||
| + | *LCU Local Control Unit | ||
| + | *LED Light Emitting Diode | ||
| + | *LEMP Lightning ElectroMagnetic imPulse | ||
| + | *LGS Laser Guide Star | ||
| + | *LLCU Linux Local Control Unit | ||
| + | *LMS LM Spectrograph | ||
| + | *LN2 Liquid Nitrogen | ||
| + | *LOO (Telescope) Low Order Optimisation (active optics) | ||
| + | *LPM Lyot-plane Phase Mask | ||
| + | *LPM Local Project Manager | ||
| + | *LPO La Silla Paranal Observatory | ||
| + | *LPZ Lightning Protection Zone | ||
| + | *LRU Line Replaceable Unit | ||
| + | *LSE Local Systems Engineer(ing) | ||
| + | *LSZH Low-Smoke Zero-Halogen | ||
| + | *LT Launch Telescope | ||
| + | *LTA Laset Tomography AO | ||
| + | *LTAO Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics | ||
| + | *LUT Look Up Table | ||
| + | *LV Low Voltage | ||
| + | *m meter | ||
| + | *M1 Primary Mirror | ||
| + | *M2 Secondary Mirror | ||
| + | *M3 Tertiary Mirror | ||
| + | *M4 4th mirror in E-ELT (or Quaternary Mirror) | ||
| + | *M5 5th mirror in E-ELT | ||
| + | *MAAL METIS Abbreviations and Acronmys List | ||
| + | *MAIT Manufacture Assembly Integration and Test | ||
| + | *MAIV Manufacture Assembly Integration and Verification | ||
| + | *mas miliarsecond | ||
| + | *MCAO Multi-Conjugate Adapative Optics | ||
| + | *MCMT Maximum Corrective Maintenance Time | ||
| + | *MCT Mercury Cadmium Telluride (HgCdTE) -- a common material used for detecting infrared light | ||
| + | *MET Short form of METIS | ||
| + | *METIS Mid Infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph | ||
| + | *MIDIR E-ELT instrument: Mid Infrared imager and spectrograph | ||
| + | *MIRI Mid Infra Red Instrument | ||
| + | *mm millimeter | ||
| + | *MOAO Multi-Object Adaptive Optics | ||
| + | *MoS Margin of Safety | ||
| + | *MOU Memorandum of Understanding | ||
| + | *MPO METIS Project Office | ||
| + | *MS (Telescope) Main Structure | ||
| + | *MS Maintenance Software | ||
| + | *MSF | ||
| + | *MSS Main Support Structure | ||
| + | *MTBF Mean Time Between Failure | ||
| + | *MTR Main Transit Ring | ||
| + | *MTTR Mean Time To Repair | ||
| + | *n.c. Normally closed | ||
| + | *n.o. Normally open | ||
| + | *N/A Not Applicable | ||
| + | *NCP Non-Common Path | ||
| + | *NCPA Non-Common Path Aberrations | ||
| + | *NCR Non-Conformance Report | ||
| + | *NCR No Collapse Requirement | ||
| + | *NGC New General Detector Controller | ||
| + | *NGCU Nitrogen Gas Conditioning Unit | ||
| + | *NGS Natural Guide Star | ||
| + | *NIH New Integration Hall | ||
| + | *NIR Near-Infrared | ||
| + | *NTT New Technology Telescope | ||
| + | *OAP Off-Axis Parabolic mirror | ||
| + | *OB Observation Block | ||
| + | *OCD Operations Concept Description (or Document) | ||
| + | *OPC Observing Programme Committee | ||
| + | *OS Observing Software | ||
| + | *OST Observation Summary Table | ||
| + | *OT Observing Tool | ||
| + | *P2PP Phase 2 Proposal Preparation | ||
| + | *PA Product Assurance | ||
| + | *PAC Preliminary Acceptance Chile | ||
| + | *PACT Position Actuator | ||
| + | *PAE Preliminary Acceptance Europe | ||
| + | *PAE Provisional Acceptance Europe | ||
| + | *PAF Parameter File | ||
| + | *PBC Protective Bonding Circuit | ||
| + | *PCB Printed Circuit Board | ||
| + | *PDR Preliminary Design Review | ||
| + | *PDRM Pluggable Data Reduction Module | ||
| + | *PE Protective Earth | ||
| + | *PELV Protective Extra Low Voltage | ||
| + | *PFD Probability of Failure on Demand | ||
| + | *PFH Probability of dangerous Failure per Hour | ||
| + | *PFS PreFocal Station | ||
| + | *PH2 Phase 2 | ||
| + | *PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis | ||
| + | *PHL Preliminary Hazard List | ||
| + | *PI Principal Investigator | ||
| + | *PI/CO-I Principal Investigator/ | ||
| + | *PID Proportional Integral Derivative | ||
| + | *PIP Pipeline | ||
| + | *PLC Programmable Logic Controller | ||
| + | *PM Project Manager | ||
| + | *PO Project Office | ||
| + | *PoA Paranal or Armazonas | ||
| + | *PoE Power over Ethernet | ||
| + | *PP (PP1, PP2, | ||
| + | *PPE Personal Protective Equipment | ||
| + | *PRNU Photon Response Non-Uniformity | ||
| + | *PSD Power Spectral Density | ||
| + | *PSD Pipeline Systems Department of SDD | ||
| + | *PSF Point | ||
| + | *PSH Phase Separator Hole | ||
| + | *PSO Paranal Science Operations | ||
| + | *PT Pulse Tube | ||
| + | *PTFE Polytetrafluoroethylene | ||
| + | *PTV Peak to Valley | ||
| + | *PWV Precipitable Water Vapour | ||
| + | *px pixel | ||
| + | *QA Quality Assurance | ||
| + | *QC1 Quality Control Level 1 | ||
| + | *QE Quantum Efficiency | ||
| + | *QSS Quasi-Static Speckles | ||
| + | *RA Right Ascension | ||
| + | *RAM(S) Reliability Availability Maintainability (Safety) | ||
| + | *RAVC Ring Apodized Vortex Coronagraph | ||
| + | *RB Reduction Block | ||
| + | *RBE Rigid Body Element | ||
| + | *RCCB Residual Current Circuit Breaker | ||
| + | *RCD Residual Current Device | ||
| + | *RD Reference Document | ||
| + | *RF Radio Frequency | ||
| + | *RFW Request for Waiver | ||
| + | *RMS, rms Root Mean Square | ||
| + | *ROHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances | ||
| + | *RON Read Out Noise | ||
| + | *RTC Real Time Computer | ||
| + | *RTD Read Time Display | ||
| + | *SA System Analysis | ||
| + | *SAM Sparse Aperture Masking | ||
| + | *SAP System Analysis Plan | ||
| + | *SCA Single Conjugarte AO | ||
| + | *SCAO Sincle Conjugate Adaptive Optics | ||
| + | *SCL Santiago de Chile | ||
| + | *SCP Service Connection Point | ||
| + | *SDI Spectral Differential Imaging | ||
| + | *SDD Software Development Division of ESO | ||
| + | *SE Systems Engineer(ing) | ||
| + | *SED | ||
| + | *SELV Safety Extra Low Voltage | ||
| + | *SEMP Systems Engineering Management Plan | ||
| + | *SGDP Science Grade Data Product | ||
| + | *SH Shack-Hartmann | ||
| + | *SIL Safety Integrity Level | ||
| + | *SL Systems Lead | ||
| + | *SMA Saturation Management Algorithm | ||
| + | *SMO Spectrometer Main Optics | ||
| + | *SNR Signal to Noise Ratio | ||
| + | *SO Static Offsets | ||
| + | *SO Science Operations | ||
| + | *SOP Small Outline Package | ||
| + | *SoW Statement of Work | ||
| + | *SPD Surge Protective Device | ||
| + | *SPE Technical Specification | ||
| + | *SPO Spectrometer Pre-Optics | ||
| + | *SRCF Safety Related Control Function | ||
| + | *SRECS Safety-Related Electrical, electronic and programmable electronic Control System | ||
| + | *SRF Spectral Response Function | ||
| + | *SRS System Requirements Specifications | ||
| + | *SSE Site Safety Engineer | ||
| + | *SSM Spacecraft Support Module | ||
| + | *SSR Solid State Recorder | ||
| + | *ST System Team | ||
| + | *STSDAS Space Telescope Standard Data Analysis Software | ||
| + | *SV Science Verification | ||
| + | *SVN Subversion (software versioning and revision control system) | ||
| + | *SW Software | ||
| + | *TBC To Be Confirmed | ||
| + | *TBD To Be Defined | ||
| + | *TBR To Be Reviewed | ||
| + | *TCF Technical Construction File | ||
| + | *TCS Telescope Control Software | ||
| + | *TIS Teledyne Imaging Sensors (http:// | ||
| + | *TMA Three Mirror Anastigmatic | ||
| + | *TMP Turbo Molecular Pump | ||
| + | *TOC Table of Contents | ||
| + | *TR Time to Repair | ||
| + | *TRB Test Readiness Bord | ||
| + | *TRL Technology Readiness Level | ||
| + | *TRR Test Readiness Review | ||
| + | *TRS Time Reference System | ||
| + | *TS Technical Specification | ||
| + | *TSE Thermal Self Emission | ||
| + | *TT Tip-Tilt | ||
| + | *UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply | ||
| + | *USD User Support Department of DMO | ||
| + | *UT Unit Telescope | ||
| + | *UTC Universal Time Coordinated | ||
| + | *V& | ||
| + | *VC Vortex Coronagraph | ||
| + | *VCS VLT Control Software | ||
| + | *VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik | ||
| + | *VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure | ||
| + | *VIC VLT Instrument Consortium | ||
| + | *VIT VLT Instrument Team | ||
| + | *VLT Very Large Telescope | ||
| + | *VLTI Very Large Telescope Interferometer | ||
| + | *WBS Work Breakdown Structure | ||
| + | *WCS World Coordinate System | ||
| + | *WCU Warm Calibration Unit | ||
| + | *WFE WaveFront Error | ||
| + | *WFS WaveFront Sensing | ||
| + | *WIN (entrance) Window | ||
| + | *WP Work Package | ||
| + | *WRT, wrt With Respect To | ||
| + | *WS Workstation | ||
| + | *WSS Warm Support Structure | ||
| + | *WVR Water Vapor Radiometer | ||
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