Note that we have not repeated the acronyms of X-ray surveys listed in Table 4.
ACS: Advanced Camera for Surveys (on Hubble Space Telescope)
ACT: Atacama Cosmology Telescope
ADEPT: Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope
AP: Alcock-Paczynski
BAO: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
BOSS: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
BigBOSS: Big Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CDM: Cold Dark Matter
CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
CFHTLS: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey
Chandra: Chandra X-ray Observatory (NASA)
CHIME: Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
CMB: Cosmic Microwave Background
COBE: Cosmic Background Explorer
COSMOS: Cosmic Evolution Survey (from Hubble Space Telescope)
CSP: Carnegie Supernova Project
DES: Dark Energy Survey
DEspec: Dark Energy Spectrograph
DESTINY: Dark Energy Space Telescope
DETF: Dark Energy Task Force
DUNE: Dark Universe Explorer
EE50: Encircled Energy 50%
eROSITA: extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array
ESA: European Space Agency
ESSENCE: Equation of State: SupErNovae trace Cosmic Expansion
Euclid: Euclid dark energy space mission (ESA)
FKP: Feldman-Kaiser-Peacock (1994) P(k) estimation method
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
FIRST: Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (from the VLA)
FWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum
Gaia: Gaia astrometry mission (ESA)
GR: General Relativity
HEAO: High-Energy Astrophysics Observatory (NASA)
HETDEX: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
HOD: Halo Occupation Distribution
HSC: Hyper-Suprime Camera (for Subaru Telescope)
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
IGM: Intergalactic Medium
IRAC: Infrared Array Camera (on Spitzer Space Telescope)
ISCS: IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey
JDEM: Joint Dark Energy Mission
JEDI: Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation
JPAS: Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey
JWST: James Webb Space Telescope
KIDS: Kilo-Degree Survey
LCS: Light Curve Shape
LIGO: Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
LOSS: Lick Observatory Supernova Survey
LRG: Luminous Red Galaxy
LSST: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAO: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NVSS: NRAO VLA Sky Survey
Pan-STARRS: Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System
PAU: Physics of the Accelerating Universe
PCA: Principal Component Analysis
Planck: Planck CMB satellite (ESA)
PS1: Pan-STARRS 1
PSF: Point Spread Function
PTF: Palomar Transient Factory
RASS: ROSAT All Sky Survey
RCS: Red-Sequence Cluster Survey
ROSAT: Roentgen Satellite
SDSS: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SED: Spectral Energy Distribution
SFR: Star Formation Rate
SKA: Square Kilometer Array
SN: Supernovae
SNAP: Supernova Acceleration Probe
SNLS: Supernova Legacy Survey (part of CFHTLS)
SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SPT: South Pole Telescope
STEP: Satellite Test of Equivalence Principle
SuMIRe: Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts
2SLAQ: 2dF and SDSS Large Area Quasar survey
VHS: VISTA Hemisphere Survey
VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VIKING: VISTA Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy Survey
VIRGO: VIRGO gravity wave observatory
VVDS: VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey
UKIDSS: UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
WFC3: Wide-Field Camera 3 (on Hubble Space Telescope)
WFPC2: Wide-Field and Planetary Camera 2 (on Hubble Space Telescope)
WFIRST: Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
WiggleZ: WiggleZ galaxy redshift survey
WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
WL: Weak Lensing
WMAP: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (NASA)
XMM-Newton: X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission