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Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa

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188 List of Acronyms<br />

CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion<br />

CWDB Close White Dwarf Binaries<br />

DC Direct Current<br />

DFACS Drag-Free and Attitude Control System<br />

DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt<br />

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />

DSN Deep Space Network (NASA)<br />

EDAC Error Detection And Correction<br />

ELITE European LISA TEchnology demonstration satellite<br />

EOL End Of Lifetime<br />

EOM Electro-Optic Modulator<br />

EQUATOR-S – satellite name –<br />

ESA European Space Agency<br />

ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre<br />

FEEP Field Emission Electric Propulsion<br />

FFT Fast Fourier Transform<br />

FPAG Fundamental Physics Advisory Group<br />

FSS Fine Sun Sensor<br />

GALILEO – Spacecraft tracking mission (1989), now orbiting Jupiter –<br />

GCR Galctic Cosmic Rays<br />

GEANT – program code, CERN –<br />

GEO Geostationary Orbit<br />

GEO 600 – German-British 600 m laser-interferometric GW detector –<br />

GEOTAIL – satellite name –<br />

GP-B Gravity Probe B<br />

GPS Global Positioning System<br />

GRADIO – Gravity Gradiometry mission: accelerometer sensor –<br />

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center<br />

GTO “Geostationary Transfer Orbit” – highly eccentric orbit for transfer<br />

from low-earth orbit to geostationary orbit<br />

GUT Grand Unification Theory<br />

GW Gravitational Wave<br />

GWI Gravity Wave Interferometer<br />

HeCV Helium Cataclysmic Variables<br />

HST Hubble Space Telescope<br />

I/F Interface<br />

I/O Input/Output<br />

IBM RS/6000 IBM ‘risc’ processor, 22 MIPS<br />

In-LMIS Indium Liquid Metal Ion Source<br />

IR InfraRed<br />

IRU Inertial Reference Unit<br />

ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)<br />

IWDB Interacting White Dwarf Binaries<br />

JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astophysics (Boulder, USA)<br />

JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, USA)<br />

LAGOS Laser Antenna for Gravitation-radiation Observation in Space<br />

3-3-1999 9:33 Corrected version 2.08

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