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E. Acronyms Used<br />

438<br />

GRB Gamma-Ray Burst (Sects. 1.3.5, 9.7)<br />

GUT Gr<strong>and</strong> Unified Theory (Sect. 4.5.3)<br />

Gyr<br />

Gigayear = 10 9 years<br />

HB<br />

Horizontal Branch<br />

HCG Hickson Compact Group (catalog of<br />

galaxy groups, Sect. 6.2.8)<br />

HDF(N/S) Hubble Deep Field (North/South)<br />

(Sects. 1.3.3, 9.1.3)<br />

HDM Hot Dark Matter (Sect. 7.4.1)<br />

HEAO<br />

High-Energy Astrophysical Observatory<br />

(Sect. 1.3.5)<br />

HRD Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram (Appendix<br />

B)<br />

HRI High-Resolution Imager (ROSAT instrument)<br />

HST Hubble Space Telescope (Sect. 1.3.3)<br />

HVC High-Velocity Cloud (Sect. 2.3.6)<br />

IAU International Astronomical Union<br />

ICM Intracluster Medium (Chap. 6)<br />

IGM Intergalactic Medium (Sect. 8.5.2)<br />

IMF Initial-Mass Function (Sect. 3.9.1)<br />

IoA<br />

Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge)<br />

IR Infrared (Sect. 1.3.2)<br />

IRAS Infrared Astronomical Observatory<br />

(Sect. 1.3.2)<br />

ISM Interstellar Medium<br />

ISO Infrared Space Observatory (Sect.<br />

1.3.2)<br />

IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer<br />

JCMT James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Sect.<br />

1.3.1)<br />

JVAS Jodrell Bank–VLA Astrometric Survey<br />

(Sect. 3.8.3)<br />

JWST James Webb Space Telescope (Chap.<br />

10)<br />

KAO Kuiper Airborne Observatory (Sect.<br />

1.3.2)<br />

LBG Lyman-Break Galaxies (Sect. 9.1.1)<br />

LCRS Las Campanas Redshift Survey (Sect.<br />

8.1.2)<br />

LHC Large Hadron Collider<br />

LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna<br />

(Chap. 10)<br />

LMC Large Magellanic Cloud<br />

LOFAR Low-Frequency Array (Chap. 10)<br />

LSB galaxy Low Surface Brightness galaxy (Sect.<br />

7.5.4)<br />

LSR Local St<strong>and</strong>ard of Rest (Sect. 4.2.1)<br />

LSS Large-Scale Structure (Chap. 8)<br />

MACHO Massive Compact Halo Object (<strong>and</strong><br />

collaboration of the same name,<br />

Sect. 2.5)<br />

MAMBO Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer<br />

(Sect. 9.3.2)<br />

MAXIMA Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment<br />

Imaging Array (Sect. 8.6.4)<br />

MDM Mixed Dark Matter (Sect. 7.4.2)<br />

MIR Mid-Infrared<br />

MLCS Multicolor Light Curve Shape (Sect.<br />

8.3.1)<br />

MMT Multi-Mirror Telescope<br />

MS<br />

Main Sequence<br />

MW Milky Way<br />

NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of<br />

NFW<br />

Japan<br />

Navarro, Frenk & White (-profile, Sect.<br />

7.5.4)<br />

NGC New General Catalog (Chap. 3)<br />

NGP North Galactic Pole (Sect. 2.1)<br />

NICMOS Near Infrared Camera <strong>and</strong> Multi-<br />

Object Spectrometer (HST instrument)<br />

NIR Near-Infrared<br />

NLR Narrow-Line Region (Sect. 5.4.3)<br />

NLRG Narrow-Line Radio Galaxy (Sect.<br />

5.2.3)<br />

NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatory<br />

NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory<br />

NTT New Technology Telescope<br />

OGLE Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment<br />

(microlenses collaboration,<br />

Sect. 2.5)<br />

OVV Optically Violently Variable (Sect.<br />

5.2.4)<br />

PL Period–Luminosity (Sect. 2.2.7)<br />

PLANET Probing Lensing Anomalies Network<br />

(microlenses collaboration, Sect. 2.5)<br />

PN<br />

Planetary Nebula<br />

POSS Palomar Observatory Sky Survey<br />

PSF Point-Spread Function<br />

PSPC Position-Sensitive Proportional<br />

Counter (ROSAT instrument)<br />

QSO Quasi-Stellar Object (Sect. 5.2.1)

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