28.08.2015 Views

and Cosmology

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS
  • No tags were found...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

E. Acronyms Used<br />

RASS ROSAT All Sky Survey (Sect. 6.3.5)<br />

RCS Red Cluster Sequence (Sect. 6.6)<br />

REFLEX ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-Ray survey<br />

RGB Red Giant Branch (Sect. 3.9.2)<br />

ROSAT Roentgen Satellite (Sect. 1.3.5)<br />

SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<br />

SCUBA Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer<br />

Array (Sect. 1.3.1)<br />

SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Sect. 8.1.2)<br />

SFR Star-Formation Rate (Sect. 9.5.1)<br />

SGP South Galactic Pole (Sect. 2.1)<br />

SIS Singular Isothermal Sphere (Sect. 3.8.2)<br />

SKA Square Kilometer Array (Chap. 10)<br />

SN(e) Supernova(e) (Sect. 2.3.2)<br />

SNR Supernova Remnant<br />

SMC Small Magellanic Cloud<br />

SMBH Supermassive Black Hole (Sect. 5.3)<br />

STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph<br />

STScI<br />

(HST instrument)<br />

Space Telescope Science Institute (Sect.<br />

1.3.3)<br />

SZ Sunyaev–Zeldovich (effect, Sect. 6.3.4)<br />

TF Tully–Fisher (Sect. 3.4)<br />

UDF Ultra-Deep Field (Sect. 9.1.3)<br />

ULIRG Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy (Sect.<br />

9.2.1)<br />

ULX Ultra-Luminous Compact X-ray Source<br />

(Sect. 9.2.1)<br />

UV Ultraviolet<br />

VLA Very Large Array (Sect. 1.3.1)<br />

VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometer (Sect.<br />

1.3.1)<br />

VLT Very Large Telescope (Sect. 1.3.3)<br />

VST VLT Survey Telescope (Sect. 6.2.5)<br />

WD White Dwarf (Sect. 2.3.2)<br />

WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particle<br />

(Sect. 4.4.2)<br />

WFI Wide Field Imager (camera at the<br />

ESO/MPG 2.2-m telescope, La Silla,<br />

Sect. 6.5.2)<br />

WFPC2 Wide Field <strong>and</strong> Planetary Camera 2 (HST<br />

WMAP<br />

instrument)<br />

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe<br />

(Sect. 8.6.5)<br />

XMM X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (Sect. 1.3.5)<br />

XRB X-Ray Background (Sect. 9.3.2)<br />

ZAMS Zero Age Main Sequence (Sect. 3.9.2)<br />

439

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!