METIS wiki

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)

• µm micrometers, microns
• 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, Integration and Test
• AIV Assembly, Integration and Verification
• 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/Software
• 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,e2v,E2v e2v Technologies (CCD manufacturer http://e2vtechnologies.com)
• 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 Interference
• 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,…) Focal Plane
• 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, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
• HW Hardware
• HX Heat Exchanger
• Hz Hertz
• I/F(s) Interface(s)
• I/O Input/Output
• IAA Instrument Assembly Area at Armazones
• ICD Interface Control Document
• ICS Instrument Control System/Software
• 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 Non-Linearity
• INS? Instrument Division of ESO
• INS? Instrument Subsystem
• 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,…) K-Mirror
• KO Kick-off
• KOM Kick-Off Meeting
• L (L1, L2,…) Lense
• 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/Co-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,…) Pupil Plane
• PPE Personal Protective Equipment
• PRNU Photon Response Non-Uniformity
• PSD Power Spectral Density
• PSD Pipeline Systems Department of SDD
• PSF Point Spread Function (system response to an infinitely narrow stimulus)
• 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://www.teledyne-si.com/index.html)
• 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&V Verification & Validation
• 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