Glossary

AAS

American Astronomical Society

ACA

ALMA Compact Array (Morita Array)

ACAST

NSF Advisory Committee on Astronomical Sciences

ACC

ALMA Coordinating Committee

ACR

ALMA Cost Review

ADC

Analogue to Digital Converter

ADCR

ALMA Delta Cost Review

ADMiT

ALMA Data Mining Toolkit

AEC

ALMA Executive Committee

AEG

Antenna Evaluation Group

AEM

Alcatel Space France, European Industrial Engineering S.r.L., MAN consortium

AIPS

Astronomical Imaging Processing System

AIV

Assembly, Integration, and Verification

ALG

ALMA Liaison Group

ALMA

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

AMAC

ALMA Management Advisory Committee

ANID

Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo [Chile]

AOS

Array Operations Site

APEX

Atacama Pathfinder Experiment

ARC

ALMA Regional Center

ARI-L

Additional Representative Images for Legacy

ASA

ALMA Science Archive

ASAC

ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee

ASIAA

Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Taiwan]

ASP

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

ASPECS

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey

AST

NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences

ASTE

Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment

ATWG

Antenna Technical Working Group

AU

Astronomical Unit

AUI

Associated Universities Inc.

AURA

Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy

AXAF

Advanced X-ray Astronomy Facility

BEC

Business Evaluation Committee

BIMA

Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association

BN

Bienes Nacionales [Chile]

BUS

Back Up Structure

CAC

Contract Award Committee

Caltech

California Institute of Technology

CARMA

Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy

CARTA

Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy

CASA

Common Astronomy Software Applications

CDL

Central Development Laboratory [NRAO]

CERN

Organisation Europeénne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

CfA

Center for Astrophysics

CFRP

Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic

CfT

Call for Tender

CNRS

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [France]

CoC

ESO Committee of Council

CONICYT

Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica [Chile]

CSC

Contract Selection Committee

CSO

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

CSV

Commissioning and Science Verification

CTIO

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

DSHARP

Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution

EA

East Asia [ALMA Partner]

EACC

Extended ALMA Coordinating Committee

EU

European [ALMA Partner]

EHT

Event Horizon Telescope

EIE

European Industrial Engineering Consortium

EIS

Environmental Impact Statement

ELT

Extremely Large Telescope

ESO

European Southern Observatory

ESSCO

Electronic Space Systems Corporation

EVALSO

Enabling Virtual Access to Latin American Southern Observatories

EVLA

Expanded Very Large Array

FC

Finance Committee [ESO]

FCRAO

Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory

FIU

Florida International University

GA

Gaz Atacama

GBT

Green Bank Telescope

GIPSY

Groningen Image Processing System

GISS

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GMC

Giant Molecular Cloud

GMT

Giant Magellan Telescope

HCRO

Hat Creek Radio Observatory

HEMT

High Electron Mobility Transistor

HIAA

Herzberg Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Canada]

HST

Hubble Space Telescope

IAU

International Astronomical Union

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IfA

Institute for Astronomy [U. Hawaii]

IPT

Integrated Project Team

IRAM

Institute de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique

IRAS

Infrared Astronomy Survey

IS

International Staff

ISM

InterStellar Medium

ITU-R

International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector

JAO

Joint ALMA Office

JATG

Joint Antenna Technical Group

JCMT

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

JDG

Joint Development Group

JTET

Joint Technical Evaluation Team

KSAI

Korea Space Science Institute

LCO

Las Campanas Observatory

LMA

Large Millimeter Array

LMSA

Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array

LMT

Large Millimeter Telescope

LPG

Liquified Petroleum Gas

LS

Local Staff

LSA

Large Southern Array

MAPS

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-Forming Scales

MELCO

Mitsubishi Electric Company

MEXT

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [Japan]

MIRIAD

Multichannel Image Reduction, Image Analysis, and Display

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MMA

Millimeter Array

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

MPIA

Max Planck Intitute für Astronomie

MPIfR

Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie

MPS

Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division of the NSF

MRE

Major Research Equipment

MREFC

Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction

MWL

Millimeter Wave Laboratory [U. Chile]

MWO

Millimeter Wave Observatory

NA

North America [ALMA Partner]

NAOJ

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Act

NAPRA

North American Program in Radio Astronomy

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCMR

NSF Cost/Management Review

NEON

National Ecological Observatory Network

NFRA

Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy

ngVLA

Next Generation Very Large Array

NINS

National Institutes of Natural Science [Japan]

NMA

Nobeyama Millimeter Array

NOAO

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

NOEMA

NOthern Extended Millimetre Array

NRA

National Rifle Association

NRAO

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NRC

National Research Council [Canada]

NRO

Nobeyama Radio Observatory

NSB

National Science Board

NSF

National Science Foundation

NWO

Netherlands Research Council

OLPA

Office of Legislative and Public Affairs [NSF]

OSF

Operations Support Facility

OSO

Onsala Space Observatory

OVRO

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

OWL

OverWhelmingly Large telescope

QUARRY

QUabbin ARRaY receiver

PAI

Project Acceptance In-house

PAS

Provisional Acceptance On-Site

PILS

Protostellar Interferometric Line SurveyProtostellar Interferometric Line Survey

PRT

Proposal Receipt Team

PWV

Precipitable Water Vapor

RCL

Radioastronomía Chajnantor Limitada

REBELS

Reionization-Era Bright Line Emission Survey

RFP

Request for Proposals

ROW

Right of Way

SAC

Science Advisory Committee

SAO

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SCO

Santiago Central Office

SCUBA

Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array

SEQUOIA

Second QUabbin Optical Imaging Array

SEST

Sweden-ESO Submillimetre Telescope

SETI

Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence

SIRTF

Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Spitzer)

SIS

Super Conductor-Insulator-Superconductor

SKAO

Square Kilometer Array Observatory

SMA

SubMillimeter Array

SMT

SubMillimeter Telescope [U. Arizona]

SOKENDAI

Graduate University for Advanced Studies

SONG

Survey of Normal Galaxies

STC

ESO’s Science and Technology Committee

SUBTEL

Telecommunications Subsecretary of Chile

SUNY

State University of New York

TAC

Technical Advisory Committee

TMT

Thirty Meter Telescope

UCh

Universidad de Chile

UK

United Kingdom

US

United States

VA

Vertex Antennentechnik

VLA

Very Large Array

VLBA

Very Long Baseline Array

VLBI

Very Long Baseline Interferometry

VLT

Very Large Telescope

WBS

Work Breakdown Structure

WSU

Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade

A&A

Astronomy and Astrophysics

AJ

Astronomical Journal

ApJ

Astrophysical Journal

ApJL

Astrophysical Journal (Letters)

ApJS

Astrophysical Journal Supplement

ASPC

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference (Series)

ASR

Advances in Space Research

BAAS

Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

JAHH

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage

JRASC

Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

LNP

Lecture Notes in Physics

MNRAS

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

PASJ

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

PASP

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

PhRvL

Physical Review Letters

PJAB

Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B

NAA

NRAO/AUI Archives

NAA-AUI

NRAO/AUI Archives, Records of Associated Universities, Inc.

NAA-NRAO

NRAO/AUI Archives, Records of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NAA-PVB

NAA/NRAO, Papers of Paul A. Vanden Bout

NAA-RLB

NAA/NRAO, Papers of Robert L. Brown