ASCA Acronyms & Abreviations
- AO ....... Announcement of Opportunity
- ADF ...... Astrophysical Data Facility
- ASCA ..... Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
- ARF ...... Ancillary Response File
- CCD ...... Charged Coupled Device
- COR ...... Cut-Off Rigidity
- CPU ...... Central Processing Unit
- CTE ...... Charge Transfer Efficiency
- CTI ...... Charge Transfer Inefficiency
- DFE ...... Dark Frame Error
- FITS ..... Flexible Image Transport System
- FOV ...... Field of View
- FWHM ..... Full Width at Half Maximum
- FRF ...... First Reduction File
- FTP ...... File Transfer Protocol
- GIS ...... Gas Imaging Spectrometer
- GOF ...... Guest Observer Facility
- GTI ...... Good Time Interval
- HEASARC .. High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
- HK ....... Housekeeping
- HTML ..... Hyper-Text Mark-up language
- HTTP ..... Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
- ISAS ..... Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- LHEA ..... Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
- mkf ...... mkfilter file
- MPC ...... Multi Pulse Count
- OGIP ..... Office of Guest Investigator Programs
- PHA ...... Pulse Height Analyzer
- PI ....... Pulse Invariant
- PSF ...... Point Spread Function
- PV ....... Performance Verification
- QDP ...... Quick and Dandy Plotter (previously Quick and Dirty Plotter)
- RDD ...... Residual Dark Distribution
- RMF ...... Redistribution Matrix File
- RTI ...... Rise Time Invariance
- SAA ...... South Atlantic Anomaly
- SCC ...... Space Craft Clock
- SIS ...... Solid-state Imaging Spectrometer
- TAI ...... International Atomic Time
- TDB ...... Barycentric Dynamical Time
- URL ...... Uniform Resource Locator
- UT ....... Universal Time
- UTC ...... Coordinated Universal Time
- WWW ...... World Wide Web
- XRT ...... X-ray Telescope
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