Data Glossary and Links
Here is a list of abbreviations and links to some radio astronomy surveys and external data services. For updates and suggestions on additions to this page please send an email to ATNF Data Support.
| AAF | Australian Access Federation |
| AARNET | Australia's Academic and Research Network |
| ACES | ASKAP Comissioning and Early Science |
| ADE | ASKAP Design Enhancements |
| ADQL | Astronomical Data Query Language (User Manual) |
| Aladin | Aladin Sky Atlas |
| ASKAP | Australian SKA Pathfinder |
| ASVO | All Sky Virtual Observatory |
| ATOA | Australia Telescope Online Archive |
| ATNF | Australia Telescope National Facility |
| BETA | Boolardy Engineering Test Array |
| CASA | Common Astronomy Software Applications |
| CASDA | CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (see the CASDA Users Guide) |
| CASS | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science |
| CDC | Canberra Data Centre |
| CDS | Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center) |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| DAP | CSIRO Data Access Portal |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
| DSS | Digital Sky Survey |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System (FITS Support Office) |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations per Second |
| GPU | Graphical Processing Unit |
| HOPS | HOPS: The H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey |
| HPC | High Performance Computing |
| IVOA | International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
| MRO | Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| MWA | Murchison Widefield Array |
| NCI | National Computing Infrastructure |
| NCMAS | National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme |
| NED | NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |
| OPAL | Online Proposal Applications and Links |
| Pawsey | Pawsey Supercomputing Centre |
| SIAP | Simple Image Access Protocol (VO Protocol) |
| SIMBAD | SIMBAD Astronomical Database |
| SODA | Serverside Operations for Data Access (VO Protocol) |
| SKA | Square Kilometre Array |
| SSAP | Simple Spectral Access Protocol (VO Protocol) |
| SST | Science Survey Team |
| TAP | Table Access Protocol (VO Protocol) |
| TOPCAT | Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables |
| UCD | Universal Content Descriptor (VO) |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| VO | Virtual Observatory (see IVOA) |
| VizieR Service | VizieR Service |