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GLOSSARY
AAS American Astronomical Society
ADF Astrophysics Data Facility
ANSI American National Standards Institute
Astro-E Fifth Japanese X-ray Astronomy Satellite
ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (formerly Astro-D)
AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
BBXRT Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
BeppoSAX Beppo (Occhialini) Satellite Italiano per Astronomia X
CFITSIO C FITS Input/Output Software
CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (or Compton Observatory)
COSSC Compton Observatory Science Support Center
DSN Deep Space Network
EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
EXOSAT European X-ray Observatory Satellite
FITS Flexible Image Transport System
FOV Field of view
GIS Gas Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA)
GOF Guest Observer Facility
GRASP Generic Retrieval/Archive Services Protocol
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GTI Good Time Interval
GUI Graphical User Interface
HEAD High Energy Astrophysics Division (of the AAS)
HEAO High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HK House Keeping Data
HRI High-Resolution Imager (Einstein and ROSAT)
HUG HEASARC Users Group
IDL Interactive Data Language
IMH Image Header (IRAF file format)
IRAF NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
LHEA Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
LMXB Low-Mass X-Ray Binary
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPE Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
OGIP Office for Guest Investigator Programs
PIMMS Portable Interactive Multi-Mission Software
PSPC Position-Sensitive Proportional Counter (ROSAT)
QPOE Quick Position Oriented Events (IRAF file format)
RDB Relational Database
RFITS Rationalized FITS format (ROSAT)
ROSAT Röntgensatellit
RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
SAA South Atlantic Anomaly
SIS Solid-state Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA)
SOF Science Operations Facility
Tcl/Tk Tool Command Language/Tool Kit (a scripting language)
USRSDC US ROSAT Science Data Center
XANADU Analysis system containing XSPEC, XRONOS, XIMAGE and QDP
XMM X-ray Multi-Mirror Observatory
XSPEC Spectral fitting package (part of XANADU)
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