AAP Active Archive Phase AAR Auto-Analysis Results ADS Astrophysics Data System AGN Active Galactic Nuclei AMA Average Measurement Accuracy AOCS Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem AOPF Augmented Operations Plan File AOS Acquisition-Of-Signal AOT Astronomical Observation Template AOTL AOT Logic APD Absolute Pointing Drift APE Absolute Pointing Error APF Attitude Parameter File APHSTAR ISO operational guide-star list APPH APerture Pointing History APPM Aperture Programmed Pointing History AST/RO Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory BAL Broad Absorption Line BIBIB Back Illuminated Blocked Impurity Band (Detector type) BKRP BulK ReProcessing BLR Broad Line Region CAL-G Calibration General CAL-U Calibration Uplink CAM The ISO Camera CAM-CVF CAM Circular Variable Filter CCD Charged Coupled Device CCS Central Command Schedule CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read-Only Memory CEA Laboratoire du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (at Saclay) CEST Central European Summer Time CIA CAM Interactive Analysis CID Charge Injection Device CIDT CAM Instrument Dedicated Team CIST CAM Instrument Science Team CMAP ISOCAM Celestial IR image CMOS ISOCAM Celestial IR mosaic CO Calibration Observation COB Calibration Observation Batch COBE COsmic Background Explorer COIF Calibration Observation Interface File COT Calibration Observation Template CPSL CAM Point Source List (an AAR product) CRE Cold Readout Electronics CRP Contingency Recovery Procedure CSE Circumstellar Envelope CSH Compact Status History CSM Circumstellar Medium CSSP ISOCAM Source Spectra CUS Calibration Uplink System CVF Circular Variable Filter CVV Cryo Vacuum Vessel DBOB Data Base of Observable Bins DEC Declination DIDAC Dutch ISO Data Analysis Centre (at SRON in the Netherlands) DIRBE Diffuse Infrared Background Explorer (onboard COBE) DLCM Direct Liquid Content Measurement DM Development Model D/SCI Directorate of Science of ESA DT Discretionary Time D/TOS Directorate of Technical and Operational Support of ESA ELAIS European Large Infrared Area Survey ELS Earth Limb Sensor EOH Executed Observation History EOHA Executed Observation History per AOT EOHC Continuous Executed Observation History EOHI Executed Observation History per ICS ERD Edited Raw Data ESA European Space Agency ESO European Southern Observatory ESOC European Space Operations Centre ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre EUV Extreme Ultraviolet EXOSAT ESA X-Ray Observatory SATellite FCP Flight Control Procedure FCS Fine Calibration Source FD Flight Dynamics FDD Flight Dynamics Division FDS Flight Dynamics System FET Field-Effect Transistor FIR Far InfraRed (m) FITS Flexible Image Transport System FOV Field Of View FP Fabry Pérot FPG Focal Plane Geometry FPL Long Wavelength Fabry-Pérot for LWS FPS Short Wavelength Fabry-Pérot for LWS FPU Focal Plane Unit FSS Fine Sun Sensor ftp file transfer protocol FWHM Full Width Half Maximum GEHK General Housekeeping GIF Graphics Interchange Format GMC Giant Molecular Cloud GOES-9 Geostationary Operational Enviromental Satellite-9 GSHH General Housekeeping (sampled) GST Ground Station Time GT Guaranteed Time HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center HH Herbig-Haro HK HouseKeeping HPDP Highly Processed Data Product HST Hubble Space Telescope HTML Hyper-Text Mark-up Language H/W Hardware IA Interactive Analysis IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (at Orsay) ICS Instrument Command Sequence ID IDentifier IDA ISO Data Archive IDC ISO Data Centre IDCS ISO Dedicated Control System IDL Interactive Data Language IDPD ISO Data Product Document IDT Instrument Dedicated Team IFPG ISO Focal Plane Geometry IIPH Instrument Instantaneous Pointing History ILT Instrument Level Tests IMEC Interuniversitary Micro Electronics Center (at Leuven, Belgium) INTEGRAL INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center IPC Industrial Policy Committee IRAS InfraRed Astronomical Satellite IRPH Instrument Reference Pointing History IRPSS ISO Remote Proposal Submission System IRSA NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive IRTS Infrared Telescope in Space ISAP ISO Spectroscopic Analysis Package ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (of Japan) ISM InterStellar Medium ISO Infrared Space Observatory ISOCAM The ISO CAMera ISOGAL ISOCAM survey of the Inner Galaxy ISOPHOT The ISO PHOTo-Polarimeter ISOSDC ISO Spectrometer Data Centre (at MPE-Garching) ISS Integrated Switching System IST ISO Science Team ISTR ISO Star TRacker ITK Instrument Time Key (=
s) KAO Kuiper Airborne Observatory LEOP Launch and Early Orbit Phase LHe Liquid Helium LIA LWS Interactive Analysis LIDT LWS Instrument Dedicated Team LIST LWS Instrument Science Team LMC Large Magellanic Cloud LOS Loss-Of-Signal LPV Long Period Variables LRS Low Resolution Spectrograph (IRAS) LSAN LWS Auto-Analysis results LWS The ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer MAU Million Accounting Units MDB Mission Data Base MIR Mid InfraRed (5 - 50
m) MIRS Mid-Infrared Spectrometer (on board IRTS) MISQ Misalignment Quaternion MLI Multi-Layer Insulation MSX Midcourse Space Experiment MPE Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics MPIA Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy MPIfR Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy MPIK Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics MPP1 Mission Planning Phase 1 MPP2 Mission Planning Phase 2 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (of US) NDC National Data Centre NED NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database NIR Near InfraRed (
m) OBDH On-Board Data Handling OCC Operations Control Centre (at ESOC) OCT Observatory Command Template ODS Operational Data Server OLP Off-Line Processing OPSNET Operations Network OSIA Observers SWS Interactive Analysis OSN Observation Sequence Number OSS Optical Support Structure OT Open Time OTAC Observing Time Allocation Committee OTF On-Target Flag OTT On-Target Time PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon PCS Permanent Command Sequences PDEC Proposal Data Entry Centre (at ESTEC) PDR Photo-Dissociation Region PDS Product Distribution System PFM Proto-Flight Model PFOV Pixel Field Of View PGA Proposal Generation Aids PH Proposal Handling PHT see ISOPHOT PHT-C PHT Camera Arrays PHT-P PHT Photopolarimeter PHT-S PHT Spectrophotometer PI Principal Investigator PIA PHT Interactive Analysis PIDT PHT Instrument Dedicated Team PN Planetary Nebula POF Planned Observation Files POPS Post-Operations (Phase) PPM Programmable Pointing Mode PPN Proto-Planetary Nebula PSF Planning Skeleton File PSF Point Spread Function PV Performance Verification (Phase) QC Quality Control QLA Quick Look Analysis QMW Queen Mary and Westfield College (at London) QSO Quasar (Quasi-Stellar Object) QSS Quadrant Star Sensor RA Right Ascension RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory RAM Random Access Memory RF Radio Frequency RIXOS ROSAT Internation X-Ray/Optical Survey r.m.s. root mean squared ROE Royal Observatory of Edinburgh ROSAT Röntgensatellit (German X-Ray space observatory) RP Routine Phase RPE Relative Pointing Error (pointing jitter) RPID Raster Point ID RPQ Raster Point Quaternion RRP Revolution Report RSRF Relative Spectral Response Function RTA Real-Time Technical Assessment SAp Service d'Astrophysique (at CEA - Saclay) SAS Sun Acquisition Sensor S/C Spacecraft SCC Spacecraft Control Centre SCP Satellite Commissioning Phase SCREW Software Change Requests and Extra Wishes SED Spectral Energy Distribution SETI Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SI International System of Units SIA SWS Interactive Analysis SIAP Simple Image Access Protocol SIDT SWS Instrument Dedicated Team SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements And Bibliography for Astronomy Data SMC Small Magellanic Cloud S/N Signal-to-Noise (ratio) SNR Supernova Remnant SOC Science Operations Centre SOST Spacecraft Operations Science Team SOT Science Operations Team SPC Science Programme Committee SPEVAL Spacecraft Performance EVALuation SPD Standard Processed Data SPDT Survey Product Display Tool SPR Software Problem Report SQL Structured/Standard Query Language SRON Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands SSO Solar System Object STR Star TRacker S/W Software SWS The ISO Short Wavelength Spectrometer TDATA Transparent Data TDF Telemetry Data/Distribution Format TDT Target Dedicated Time TM TeleMetry ToO Target of Opportunity TOS Technical and Operational Support TRS Thermal Radiation Source TTP Technology Test Phase UDF User Defined Function UIR Unidentified Infrared Bands UK United Kingdom UKIRT United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (Hawaii) USA United States of America UTC Universal Time (Coordinated) UTK Uniform Time Key VCS Vapour-cooled radiation Shields VILSPA Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station in Spain VLA Very Large Array VO Virtual Observatory WWW World Wide Web x-axis Roll in the S/C control frame XMM-Newton X-ray Multi-Mirror Telescope y-axis Pitch in the S/C control frame YSO Young Stellar Object z-axis Yaw in the S/C control frame ZIP Zodiacal Infrared Project