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List of Acronyms 189<br />

LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN)<br />

LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (USA)<br />

LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna<br />

LMC Large Magellanic Cloud<br />

LMIS Liquid Metal Ion Source<br />

LSC LISA Science Centre<br />

LSDAC <strong>Lisa</strong> Science Data Archiving Centre<br />

MAU Million Accounting Units<br />

MBH Massive Black Hole<br />

MBW Measurement Bandwidth<br />

MCG – Catalogue of Galaxies –<br />

MD Maryland (State in USA)<br />

MECU Million ECU (European Currency Unit)<br />

MGSO Mission Ground Support Operations<br />

MIL-STD-1553 MIL-Standard interface 1553<br />

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second<br />

MIR – Russian space station –<br />

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)<br />

MLI Multi-Layer Insulation<br />

MoU Memorandum of Understanding<br />

MPQ Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany)<br />

MSP Mars Surveyor Program<br />

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)<br />

NAUTILUS – Cryogenic resonant-mass antenna, Frascati (Italy) –<br />

Nd:YAG Neodymium-doped Yttrium-Aluminium Garnet<br />

NORAD NORth American Defense command<br />

NPRO Numerically PRogrammed Oscillator<br />

NS Neutron Star<br />

NSF National Science Foundation (USA)<br />

NSSDC National Space Science Data Center<br />

OMEGA Orbiting Medium Explorer for Gravitational Astrophysics<br />

ONERA Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (France)<br />

OSS Office of Space Science (USA)<br />

PCU Power Conditioning and Control Unit<br />

PDF Probability Density Function<br />

PI Principal Investigator<br />

PLM PayLoad Module<br />

PM Propulsion Module<br />

PP Program Plan<br />

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory<br />

QNL Quantum Noise Limit<br />

RAD 6000-SC Radiation-hardened version of IBM RS/6000<br />

RAM Random Access Memory<br />

RCS Reaction Control Subsystem<br />

RF Radio Frequency<br />

RFDU Radio Frequency Distribution Unit<br />

Corrected version 2.08 3-3-1999 9:33

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