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======== Glossary of Terms Common to the Project ========


==== a ====	  
**AARNet**- 				Australia's Academic and Research Network	 \\ 
**AGN**- 	 			Active Galactic Nuclei	 \\ 
**AIPS**- 				Astronomical Image Processing System	 \\ 
**ALBUS**- 				Advanced Long Baseline User Software	 \\ 
**ANGLES**- 				Astrophysics Network for Galaxy LEnsing Studies	 \\ 
**ANTAB**- 				File containing aprioiri station calibration information, used in AIPS	 \\ 
**ANTABFS**- 				“Raw” version of ANTAB	 \\ 
**ASTRON**- 				Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy	 \\ 
**ATCA**- 				Australia Telescope Compact Array	 \\ 
**ATNF**- 	 			Australia Telescope National Facility	 \\ 
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==== b ====	 
**BBC**- 				BaseBand Converter	 \\ 
**BL-Lac**- 				BL Lacertae	 \\ 
**Bwctl**- 				Bandwith Test Controller	 \\ 
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==== c ====	 
**CALC**- 				Program to compute the apriori geometric delay-model	 \\ 
**CAS**- 				Chinese Academy of Sciences	 \\ 
**CASA**- 				Common Astronomy Software Applications	 \\ 
**C‑band** 				5 GHz observing band	 \\ 
**CCC**- 				Correlator Control Computer	 \\ 
**CeNTIE**- 			 	Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy	 \\ 
**CfA**- 	 			Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA, USA)	 \\ 
**CJF**- 	 			Caltech-Jodrell Flat spectrum Survey	 \\ 
**Cm-* baseline**- 			Cambridge-to-all-stations baseline	 \\ 
**COSMIC**- 				Continuous Single-disc Monitoring of Intra-day variability at Ceduna	 \\ 
**CPU**- 	 			Central Processor Unit	 \\ 
**CSIRO**- 				Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	 \\ 
**CSO**- 	 			Compact Symmetric Object	 \\ 
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==== d ====

**Da-* baseline**- 			Darnhall-to-all-stations baseline	 \\ 
**DANTE**- 				Delivery of Advanced Network Technology for Europe	 \\ 
**DEMON**- 				Dark Matter and Dark Energy	 \\ 
**DEVOS**- 				Deep Extragalactic VLBI-Optical Survey	 \\ 
**DFG**- 				German Science Foundation	 \\ 
**DPU**- 				Data Playback Unit	 \\ 
**DXRBS**- 				Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey	 \\ 
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==== e ====	  

**EADS**- 	 			European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company	 \\ 
**EADS LIFE**- 				EADS Lunar Infrastructure For Exploration	 \\ 
**EC	**- 	 			European Commission	 \\ 
**EGRET**- 	 			Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope 	 \\ 
**ERI**- 				EVN Reliability Indicator	 \\ 
**ESA**- 	 			European Space Agency	 \\ 
**eSMA**- 				Extended SubMillimeter Array	 \\ 
**ESTRELA**- 				Early-Stage TRaining site for European Long-wavelength Astronomy	 \\ 
**EU**- 				European Union	 \\ 
**e-VLBI**- 				electronic VLBI	 \\ 
**EVN**- 	 			European VLBI Network	 \\ 
**EXPReS**- 				Express Production Real-Time e-VLBI Service	 \\ 
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==== f ====	  
**FABRIC**- 				Future Arrays of Broadband Radio-telescopes on Internet Computing	 \\ 
**FIRST**- 				VLA Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-one Cm	 \\ 
**FITS**- 				Flexible Image Transport Systems	 \\ 
**FP6**- 	 			Framework Programme 6	 \\ 
**FPGA**- 				Field Programmable Gate Array 	 \\ 
**FTP**- 	 			File Transfer Protocol	 \\ 
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==== g ==== 
**GARR**- 				Gestione Ampliamento Rete Ricerca (Italian Academic and Research Network)	 \\ 
**GB**- 				Gigabyte	 \\ 
**Gbps**- 				Gigabit per second	 \\ 
**GBT**- 	 			Green Bank Telescope	 \\ 
**GÉANT**- 				Pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network	 \\ 
**GeV**- 	 			Giga-electron-Volt	 \\ 
**GMRT**- 				Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope	 \\ 
**GPS**- 	 			Global Positioning System	 \\ 
**GPS**- 				GHz-Peaked-Spectrum	 \\ 
**GSFC**- 				Goddard Space Flight Center	 \\ 
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==== h ==== 
**HDF-N**- 				Hubble Deep Field - North	 \\ 
**HFF**- 				Hubble Flanking Field	 \\ 
**HSA**- 	 			High Sensitivity Array	 \\ 
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==== i ==== 
**I/O**- 				Input/Output	 \\ 
**IAA**- 	 			International Academy of Astronautics 	 \\ 
**IDV**- 	 			intra-day variability	 \\ 
**IERS**- 				International Earth Rotation Service	 \\ 
**IGN**- 	 			Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain)	 \\ 
**INAF**- 				Istituto Nazionale di Astropisica (Italy)	 \\ 
**IRA**- 				Istituto di Radioastronomia (Italy)	 \\ 
**IRAM**- 				Institut de Radio Astronomie Milimetrique	 \\ 
**ISM**- 				Interstellar Medium	 \\ 
**ISS**- 	 			interstellar scintillation	 \\ 
**IVS**- 				International VLBI Service	 \\ 
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==== j ==== 
**Jb1+2**- 				Jodrell Bank telescopes 1 + 2	 \\ 
**JBO**- 	 			Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK)	 \\ 
**JCCS**- 				JIVE Correlator Control Software	 \\ 
**JCMT**- 				James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Hawaii, USA)	 \\ 
**JIVE**- 				Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe	 \\ 
**JPL**- 	 			Jet Propulsion Laboratory	 \\ 
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==== k ==== 
**K‑band** 				‑ 22 GHz observing band	 \\ 
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==== l ==== 
**LAN**- 	 			Local Area Network	 \\ 
**LBA**- 	 			Australian Long Baseline Array	 \\ 
**L‑band** 				‑ 1,6 GHz observing band	 \\ 
**LOFAR**- 				Low Frequency Array	 \\ 
**LTO**- 	 			Linear Tape Open (tape backup system)	 \\ 
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==== m ==== 
**Mk5**- 				Mark 5 (PC based disk recording system)	 \\ 
**MASIV**- 				MicroArcsecond Scintillation-Induced Variability	 \\ 
**MB**- 	 			Megabyte	 \\ 
**Mbps**- 				Megabit per second	 \\ 
**MERLIN**- 				Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network	 \\ 
**MHz**- 				Mega Herz	 \\ 
**MIM**- 				minimum ionosphere model	 \\ 
**MPIfR**- 				Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (Germany)	 \\ 
**MTU**- 	 			Maximum Transmission Unit	 \\ 
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==== n ==== 
**NA**- 				Networking Activity	 \\ 
**NAOC**- 				National Astronomical Observatory of China	 \\ 
**NASA**- 				National Aeronautics and Space Administration	 \\ 
**NICT**- 				National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (Japan)	 \\ 
**NME**- 	 			Network Monitoring Experiment	 \\ 
**NOT**- 	 			Nordic Optical Telescope	 \\ 
**NRAO**- 				National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA)	 \\ 
**NREN**- 				National Research and Education Network	 \\ 
**NWO**- 				Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	 \\ 
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==== o ==== 
**OAN**- 				Observatorio Astronomico Nacional	 \\ 
**OSO**- 	 			Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden)	 \\ 
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==== p ==== 
**PC-EVN**- 	 			disk‑based recording format	 \\ 
**PCInt**- 	 			Post-Correlator Integrator	 \\ 
**PERT**- 	 			Performance Enhancement and Response Team	 \\ 
**PI**- 				Principal Investigator	 \\ 
**PoP**- 				Point of Presence	 \\ 
**PPARC**- 	 			Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK)	 \\ 
**PSNC**- 				Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center	 \\ 
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==== r ==== 
**RFI**- 				Radio Frequency Interference	 \\ 
**ROEN**- 				North-eastern Space Radio Observatory	 \\ 
**ROSAT**- 				Röntgen Satellite	 \\ 
**ROT (clocks)** 			Reconstituted Observing Time	 \\ 
**RuG**- 				University of Groningen	 \\ 
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==== s ==== 
**SARA**- 				Dutch National Computer Centre	 \\ 
**SCARIe**- 				Software Correlator Architecture Research and Implementation for e-VLBI	 \\ 
**SCHED**- 				VLBI Scheduling Software, developed by NRAO	 \\ 
**SCUBA**- 				Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array	 \\ 
**SFXC**- 				Software FX correlator	 \\ 
**SHAO**- 				Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (China)	 \\ 
**SKA**- 				Square Kilometer Array	 \\ 
**SKADS**- 				SKA Design Study	 \\ 
**Smart-1**- 				Small missions for Advanced Research in Technology	 \\ 
**SPIE**- 				International Society for Optical Engineering	 \\ 
**SURFNet**- 				Dutch Research Organisation	 \\ 
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==== t ==== 
**TB**- 				Terabyte	 \\ 
**TeV **- 				Tera-electron-Volt	 \\ 
**TIGO**- 				Transportable Integrated Geodatic Observatory	 \\ 
**TNA**- 	 			Trans National Access	 \\ 
**TRM**- 	 			Track Recovery Module	 \\ 
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==== u ==== 
**UAO**- 	 			Urumqi Astronomical Observatory (China)	 \\ 
**ULX**- 				Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources	 \\ 
**UTC**- 	 			Coordinated Universal Time	 \\ 
**UvA**- 				University of Amsterdam	 \\ 
**UVW**- 				Coordinate system for the visibility data as measured by an interferometric arary	 \\ 
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==== v ==== 
**VC**- 				Video Channel	 \\ 
**VLA**- 	 			Very Large Array	 \\ 
**VLBA**- 				Very Long Baseline Array	 \\ 
**VLBEER**- 				EVN schedule server	 \\ 
**VLBI**- 				Very Long Baseline Interferometry	 \\ 
**VSOP**- 				VLBI Space Observatory Programme	 \\ 
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==== w ==== 
**WSRT**- 				Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (Netherlands)	 \\ 
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