Abbreviation

Full Form

A&G

Acquisition & Guiding 

AAS

American Astronomical Society

ABOD

AURA Board of Directors

AD

Associate Director

ADO

Associate Director’s Office

AEON

Astronomical Event Observatory Network

AFOps

Arizona Facilities Operations (COS)

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ALMA

Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

AMCL

AURA Management Council for LSST

AMCR

AURA Management Council for Rubin Observatory

ANTARES

Arizona-NOIRLab Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System

AO

Adaptive Optics

AOCG

AURA Observatory Council for Gemini

API

Application Programming Interface

ARO

 Arizona Radio Observatory

ASM

Adaptive Secondary Mirror

AST

Astronomical Sciences (NSF)

Astro2020

Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics

AURA

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

AURA-O

AURA Observatory in Chile

BFA

Budget, Finance, and Award Management

CA

Cooperative Agreement

CAS

Central Administrative Services (AURA)

CDO

CSDC Director’s Office

CEE

Communications, Education & Engagement

CET

Community Engagement Team (Rubin)

CFOps

Chile Facilities Operations

CLP

Chilean pesos

CLT

Chile Standard Time

CMB

Cosmic Microwave Background

COS

Center Operations Services

COSMOS

Cerro Tololo Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph

COVID-19

Coronavirus Disease 2019

CPS

References the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Interference.

CSA

Cooperative Support Agreement

CSDC

Community Science and Data Center

CTIO

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

CTO

Chief Technology Officer

DD

Deputy Director

DECam

Dark Energy Camera

DEI

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DES

Dark Energy Survey

DESI

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DKIST

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

DMO

Data Management Operations

DMP

Document Management Plan or Data Management Plan, depending on context

DMS

Data Management Services

DOE

Department of Energy

DP

Data Preview

DR

Data Release

DRAGONS

Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South

DST

US Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope

E&E

Education & Engagement (CEE)

EHS

Environmental, Health and Safety (COS)

ELT

Extremely Large Telescope

EPICS

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

EPO

Education & Public Outreach

ERMP

Enterprise Risk and Management Plan

ES

Engineering Services

ESO

European Southern Observatory

F&A

Facilities and Administrative

FDR

Final Design Review

FFRDC

Federally Funded Research and Development Center

FMEA

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

FOMA

Facilities Operations Mountain Arizona

FRA

Fermi Research Alliance

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent

FY

Fiscal Year

GA

General Assembly

GBS

Gemini-Blanco-SOAR in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

GEMMA

Gemini Observatory in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

GeMS

Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System

GHOST

Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph

GIRMOS

Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph

GLAO

Ground Layer Adaptive Optics

GLN

Gemini LSST NOAO

GMOS

Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph

GMT

Giant Magellan Telescope

GMTO

Non-profit organization building the Giant Magellan Telescope

GN

Gemini North

GNAO

Gemini North Adaptive Optics

GNIRS

Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph

GONG

Global Oscillation Network Group

GPI

Gemini Planet Imager

GPOL

Gemini Polarization module (obsolete)

GRACES

Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center

GSMT

Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope

GSV

Gemini Strategic Vision

HBF

Hilo Base Facility

HFOps

Hawaiʻi Facilities Operations (COS)

HPO

(Rubin) Head of Program Operations

HQ

Headquarters

HR

Human Resources

HST

Hawai‘i Standard Time

IAU

International Astronomical Union

IDF

Interim Data Facility

IFU

Integral Field Unit

IGRINS-2

Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph (IGRINS)–2

IP

Intellectual Property

IR

Infrared

ISP

Internet Service Provider

ISPI

Infrared Side Port Imager

IT

Information Technology

ITAR

International Traffic in Arms Regulations

ITOps

Information Technology Operations

JMC

Joint Management Council

JWST

James Webb Space Telescope

KASI

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

KMTNet

Korean Microlensing Telescope Network

KP

Kitt Peak

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

KPMO

Kitt Peak Mountain Operations

KPNO

Kitt Peak National Observatory

KPVC

Kitt Peak Visitor Center

KSP

Key Science Program

L1, L2

Level 1, Level 2

LBNL

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

LCO

Las Cumbres Observatory

LCOGT

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope

LEO

Low Earth Orbit

LIGO

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

LOTIS

Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System

LSST

Legacy Survey of Space and Time

LSSTC

LSST Corporation

M2

Mirror 2

MAROON-X

M dwarf Advanced Radial velocity Observer Of Neighboring eXoplanets

MCU

Mount Control Unit

MDM

Michigan Dartmouth MIT Observatory

MEARTH

M dwarf stars in search of new Earth like exoplanets

MK

Maunakea 

MMA

Multi-Messenger Astronomy

MOS

Multi-Object Spectroscopy

MOU

Memorandum Of Understanding

MREFC

Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (NSF)

MSO

Mid-Scale Observatories

MSRI

Mid-scale Research Infrastructure

MSS

Management Support Services

MST

Mountain Standard Time

MTDC

Modified Total Direct Cost

NAOJ

National Astronomy Observatory Japan

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCSA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NEC

NCOA Executive Council

NEID

NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler Spectroscopy

NERSC

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NEWFIRM

NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Imager

NGO

National Gemini Office

NIRI

Near-Infrared Imager (on Gemini North)

NMOC

NOIRLab Management Oversight Council

NN-EXPLORE

NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research

NOAO

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

NOIRLab

National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory

NOP

Nightly Observing Program (KPVC)

NRAO

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NRC

National Research Council (Canada)

NSB

National Science Board

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSO

National Solar Observatory

O&M

Operations & Maintenance

OC

Observatory Council

OCS

Observatory Control System

ODI

One Degree Imager

OIR

Optical Infrared

OLDS

Organizational Learning and Development Specialist

OMO

Organization, Management, Operations

OMP

Observation Management Package

OPCC

Northern Chile Skies Quality Protection Office

Operations

Operations (COS)

PAN-STARRS

Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System

PDR

Preliminary Design Review

PEMP

Program Management and Evaluation Plan

PEP

Project Execution Plan

PI

Principal Investigator

PIO

Public Information & Outreach (Gemini); Public Information Office

PMD

Project Management Department

PMO

Portfolio Management Office

POP

Program Operating Plan

PPE

personal protective equipment

PROMPT

Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes

PRP

Program Review Panel (NSF)

PRT

Personal Research Time

PSE

Project Systems Engineering

Q

Quarter

RCT

Robotically Controlled Telescope

RDO

Rubin Operations Director’s Office

RDP

Rubin Operations Data Production

REO

Rubin Operations Education and Public Outreach

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RFP

Request for Proposal

RII

Research Inclusion Initiative

ROO

Rubin Observatory Operations

RSP

Rubin Operations System Performance

RSS

Research and Science Services

RTC

Real Time Controller

RV

Radial Velocity

SARA

Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy

SBS

Shared Business Services

SCOC

Survey Cadence Optimization Committee

SCORPIO

Spectrograph and Camera for Observations of Rapid Phenomena

SDSS

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SLAC

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SMARTS

Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System

SOAR

Southern Astrophysical Research telescope

SOLARIO

SOLAR & Imaging Observatory

SSO

Single-Sign-On

STAC

Science and Technology Advisory Committee

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STScl

Space Telescope Science Institute 

SUNY

State University New York

SUSD

Science User Support department (Gemini)

SW

Software

TAC

Time Allocation Committee

TBD

To Be Determined

TCC

Telescope Control Console

TCS

Telescope Control System

TDA

time-domain astronomy

TDS

 Time-Domain Services

TelOps

Telescope Operations

TMT

Thirty Meter Telescope

TOM

Target Observation Manager

U of A

University of Arizona

UC

University of California

UI

University of Illinois

UNC-CH

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UPP

US-ELT Program Platform

URL

Universal Resource Locator

US-ELTP

US Extremely Large Telescope Program

UW

University of Washington

VC

Visiting Committee

VoIP

Voice Over Internet Protocol

VVT

Verification and Validation Team

WBS

Work Breakdown Structure

WHAM

Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper

WIYN

Consortium consisting of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, NOIRLab, and the University of Missouri (previously Yale University was a member)

WKU

Western Kentucky University

WoU-MMA

Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

WUCAO

Windows on the Universe Center for Astronomy Outreach

ZTF

Zwicky Transient Facility