GBO/NRAO Acronyms

AIPS	Astronomical Information Processing System 	http://aips2.nrao.edu

ALFALFA - Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey is an on-going second generation blind extragalactic HI survey exploiting the Arecibo L-band Feed Array.  http://egg.astro.cornell.edu/alfalfa/index.php

ALMA	Altacama Large Millimeter Array 	http://www.nrao.edu/alma

ARGUS	a 16-pixel, dual polarization W-band focal plane array for millimeter spectroscopy.
	https://science.nrao.edu/about/news/a-w-band-focal-plane-array-for-gbt-1

CASA	Common Astronomy Software Applications	http://casa.nrao.edu

CCB	CalTech Continuum Backend

CHIME	Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
	https://chime-experiment.ca/en

CICADA  Configurable Instrument Collaboration for Agile Data Acquistion
	(https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/CICADA/WebHome)

CRAM	Cryogenic Refrigerator Audio Monitor

DSS	Dynamic Scheduling System (and not Direct Station Select as we telephone techs may think)

ERIRA	Educational Research in Radio Astronomy

EVLA	Expanded Very Large Array 	http://www.nrao.edu/evla

FASR	Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope http://www.ovsa.njit.edu/fasr/

FLAG	Focal L-band Array for the GBT (was known as PAF - Phased Array Feed), a prime focus receiver for the GBT, built here in Green Bank, unlike almost all the other recent receivers.

GBO	Green Bank Observatory (was NRAO Green Bank)

GBT	Green Bank Telescope 	http://www.nrao.edu/gbt

GSMS	Governor's School for Math & Science

GUPPI	Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument 
	 (https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/CICADA/NGNPP)

LOFAR	Low Frequency Array
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-Frequency_Array_(LOFAR)

MRI	Major Research Instrumentation - a program of the National Science Foundation

MUSTANG	Multiplexed SQUID/TES Arry for Ninety Gigahertz (formerly the Penn Array)
	(now, what do SQUID and TES stand for???)

PAPER	Precision Array to Probe Epoch of Reionization	http://astro.berkeley.edu/~dbacker/EoR/

PHAMAS	Phased Array for Mm Astronomy (the Instrument Formally Known as the W-band PAF), a 64 pixel, single polarization array W-band receiver.
	https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Projects/WbandPafWebHome

PING	Physics Inspiring the Next Generation	https://info.nrao.edu/do/odi/broader-impact-programs/ping

PSC	Pulsar Search Collaboratory

RET	Research Experiences for Teachers

REU	Research Experiences for Undergraduates  http://www.nrao.edu/students/summer-students.shtml

SRBS	Solar Radio Burst Spectrometer (aka Green Bank SRBS, or GBSRBS)
	http://www.nrao.edu/astrores/gbsrbs/

VEGAS	Versatile Astronomical Spectrometer

VLBA	Very Long Baseline Array	http://www.nrao.edu/vlba

Zpectrometer - not really an acronym, but the name of a ultra wideband cross correlation spectrometer, built by the University of Maryland.


Comment overheard in the cafeteria . . . "Astronomers spend more time thinking up cute acronyms for their projects than they do the actual science."


Last Update - 25 May 2022