SKA Acronyms
SKA Acronyms
Acronyms commonly used on the SKA Website
A
AIV – Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV)
APERTIF – The focal-plane array system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
ASKAP – Australian SKA Pathfinder
ASTRON – Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
ATA – Allen Telescope Array
ATCA – Australian Telescope Compact Array
C
CET54 – Radio Telescope Developed in China
CIRA – Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
CITA – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
CMB – Cosmic Microwave Background
CNRS – Nancay Radio Telescope (France)
CNR-IEIIT – Consignio Nazionale della Richerche – Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
CSIRO – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CSP – Central Signal Processor (CSP)
D
DSH – Dish (DSH)
E
EOI – Expression of Interest
EMSS
EVLA – Extended Very Large Array
F
FAST – The Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
FOV – Field of View
G
GLOW – German Long Wavelengths Consortium
H
H1 – Hydrogen 1 (Neutral Hydrogen Line)
HST – Hubble Space Telescope
I
ICRAR – International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
IP – Intellectual Property
INAF – Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
IRCOM – Institute de de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes
IVEC – The government-supported high-performance computing centre of Western Australia
J
JIVE – Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
K
KAT7 – The seven-dish MeerKAT precursor array
L
LFAA – Low-Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA)
LNA – Low Noise Amplifier
LOFAR – Low Frequency Array
LWA – Long Wavelength Array
M
MFAA – Mid-Frequency Aperture Array (MFAA)
MWA – Murchison Widefield Array
N
NAO – National Astronomical Observatory
NCRA – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
NRAO – National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRC – National Research Council (Canada)
P
PAF – Phased Array Feed
PaST – Primeval Structure Telescope
R
RFP – Request for Proposals
S
SaDT – Signal and Data Transport (SaDT)
SDP- Science Data Processor (SDP)
SETI – Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
SKA – Square Kilometre Array
SKACOWG – SKA Communications and Outreach Working Group
SKAMP – SKA Molonglo Prototype
SKAO – Square Kilometre Array Organisation
STFC – Science and Technology Facilities Couoncil
SWG – Science Working Group
T
TRDDC – Tata Research Development and Design Centre
U
UCL – University College London
V
VLA – Very Large Array
VLBI – Very Long Baseline Interferometry
W
WBSPF – Wideband Single Pixel Feeds (WBSPF)
WSRT – Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
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