Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
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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