Updated 10/5/00
List of Acronyms, Abbreviations and Units

| abs ACRIM ARC AU AXAF CaII CCD COROT Co-I Dec deg DLT DSN EEV EOM EPS ESA FAME FAQ FITS FOV frac GIF HET HI HII HST HZ IR LED LHS LOS MB Me MJ MMTO MOST Mo mv Myrs NAS NASA NEAR NGST nm NRC OCLI OSS pc PI pix ppm PSF PZT QTH RA Re RJ rel RSS RTD SAO SETI SIM SIRTF SMM SNR SOFIA SSED SOHO STScI SWG TBD TEU TLA TPF USNO UV VIRGO yr |
absolute Active Cavity Radiometer for Irradiance Monitoring Ames Research Center astronomical unit = 1.5 x 108 km Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility singlely ionized calcium charge-coupled device COnvection and ROTation of stars Co-Investigator declination degrees digital linear tape Deep Space Network English Electronic Valve end of mission encapsulated postscript format European Space Agency Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer frequently asked questions flexible information transport system field-of-view fractional graphics interchange format Hobby-Eberly Telescope neutral hydrogen ionized hydrogen Hubble Space Telescope Habitable Zone infrared light emitting diode Lawrence Hall of Science line of sight megabytes An Earth mass A Jupiter mass= 318 Me Smithsonian/U Arizona MMT Observatory Micro-variability and Oscillations of STars One solar mass visual magnitude millions of years National Academy of Sciences National Aeronautics and Space Administration Near Earth Astroid Rendezvous Next Generation Space Telescope nanometers = 10-9 meters National Research Council Optical Coating Labs Inc Office of Space Science parsec = 3.1 x 1016 meters portable document format Principal Investigator pixel parts per million point spread function piezoelectric transducer quartz-tungsten-halogen lamp right ascension one Earth radius one Jupiter radius = 11.2 Re relative root sum square resistance temperature detector Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Space Interferometry Mission Space InfraRed Telescope Facility Solar Maximum Mission signal-to-noise ratio Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy Solar System Exploration Division SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory Space Telescope Science Institute Science Working Group to be determined thermoelectric unit Three Letter Acronym Terrestrial Planet Finder United States Naval Observatory ultraviolet Variability of solar IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations on SOHO year |

Curator: David Koch 
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