A complete list of acronyms employed in this review is given in Table 27.
ADC: | Astronomical Data Center |
ADS: | Astrophysics Data System |
AEC: | Archival Exposures Catalog |
AR: | Archival Research |
AURA: | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. |
CADC: | Canadian Astronomical Data Center |
CCD: | Charge Coupled Device |
CDBS: | Calibration Data Base System |
CDS: | Centre des Données Stellaires |
CEA: | Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy |
CFA: | Center for Astrophysics |
CFHT: | Canada France Hawaii Telescope |
COSTAR: | Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement |
CP: | Call for Proposals |
CTE: | Charge Transfer Efficiency |
CVZ: | Continuous Viewing Zone |
DADS: | Data Archive and Distribution System |
ESA: | European Space Agency |
ESO: | European Southern Observatory |
EUVE: | Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer |
FGS: | Fine Guidance Sensors |
FITS: | Flexible Image Transport System |
FOC: | Faint Object Camera |
FOS: | Faint Object Spectrograph |
FOV: | Field of View |
GASP: | Guide Star Selection System Astrometric Support Program |
GEIS: | Generic Edited Information Set |
GHRS: | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
GIMP: | Geomagnetically-Induced Image Motion Problem |
GO: | General Observers |
GSC: | Guide Star Catalog |
GSFC: | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSSS: | Guide Star Selection System |
GTO: | Guaranteed Time Observer |
HDA: | Hubble Data Archive |
HSP: | High Speed Photometer |
HST: | Hubble Space Telescope |
IDT: | Instrument Definition Team |
IPAC: | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center |
IRAF: | Image Reduction and Analysis Facility |
IRAS: | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
ISO: | Infrared Astronomical Observatory |
ISR: | Instrument Science Report |
IUE: | International Ultraviolet Explorer |
JPL: | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
LEDA: | Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database |
LSA: | Large Science Aperture |
LSF: | Line Spread Function |
MAMA: | Multi-Anode Microchannel Array |
MJD: | Modified Julian Date (JD-2400000.5) |
NASA: | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NOAO: | National Optical Astronomical Observatory |
NED: | NASA Extragalactic Database |
NICMOS: | Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph |
NSSDC: | NASA Space Science Data Center |
OFAD: | Optical Field Angle Distortion |
OIF: | Old IRAF Format |
OMS: | Observatory Monitoring System |
OPUS: | OSS and PODPS Unified System |
OSS: | Observatory Support System |
OTA: | Optical Telescope Assembly |
PC: | Planetary Camera |
PODPS: | Post-Observation Data Processing System |
PRESTO: | Project to Re-Engineer Space Telescope Observing |
PSF: | Point Spread Function |
QE: | Quantum Efficiency |
ROSAT: | Röntgen Satellit |
RPS(2): | Remote Proposal Submission System (2) |
RSDP: | Routine Science Data Processing |
SAA: | South Atlantic Anomaly |
SI: | Scientific Instrument |
SIMBAD: | Set of Information, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data |
SMOV: | Servicing Mission Orbital Verification |
SMS: | Science Mission Specification |
SPYBAL: | SPectrum Y BALance |
SSA: | Small Science Aperture |
ST-ECF: | Space Telescope - European Coordination Facility |
STAN: | Space Telescope Analysis News |
STEIS: | Space Telescope Electronic Information System |
STIS: | Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
STOCC: | Space Telescope Operations Control Center |
STScI: | Space Telescope Science Institute |
STSDAS: | Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software |
TAC: | Time Allocation Committee |
TDRSS: | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
TIM: | Telescope Image Modelling |
URL: | Universal Resource Locator |
WFC: | Wide Field Camera |
WF/PC: | Wide Field and Planetary Camera [1] |
WFPC2: | Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 |
WWW: | World Wide Web |