Index des acronymes utilises:

2MASS Two Micron All Sky Survey

ACS Advanced Camera for Surveys (instrument du télescope spatial HST) avce les trois caméras WFC wide field camera, HRC high-resolution camera etSBC solar blind camera.

ANS Astronomical Netherlands Satellite

ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics

ASI Italian Space Agency

ASTRO1 système de télescopes embarqué sur la navette spatiale Columbia : BBXRT, HUIT, UIT, WUPPE site wikipedia

APEX Atacama Pathfinder Experiment

BBXRT Broad Band X-Ray Telescope

BAT Burst Alert Telescope (instrument du telescope spatial SWIFT)

BATSE Burst and Transient Source Experiment (instrument de l'observatoire spatial CGRO)

BGPS Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey

BLAST Balloon borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

BTA Bol'shoi Télescope Altazimutal

CFHT Canada France Hawaii Telescope

CNES Centre national d'etudes spatiales

CGRO Compton Gamma-ray Observatory

COBE COsmic Background Explorer

CoRoT Convection, Rotation and planetary Transit

COMPTEL Imaging Compton Telescope (instrument de l'observatoire spatial CGRO)

CRIRES Cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle ; instrument UT1, VLT

CSA Agence Spatiale Canadienne

CTIO Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Chile

DENIS DEep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey

DIRBE Diffuse Infra Red Background Experiment (instrument du satellite COBE)

DLR German Aerospace Center

DMR Differential Microwave Radiometer (instrument du satellite COBE)

EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (instrument de l'observatoire spatial CGRO)

EPIC European Photon Imaging Camera (instrument de l'observatoire spatial XMM-Netwon)

ESA European Space Agency

ESO European Southern Observatory

EUVE Extreme Ultra Violet Explorer

FAUST Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope

FIRAS Far Infra Red Absolute Spectrometer (instrument du satellite COBE)

FIS Far-Infrared Survey (instrument du telescope spatial AKARI)

FKA Agence spatiale federale russe

FLAMES (Fibre Large Array Multi-Element Spectrograph) ; instrument UT2, VLT

FORS (focal reducer and low dispersion spectrograph) instrument UT1, VLT

FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer

GBM Large Area Telescope (instrument du telescope spatial Fermi)

GMRT Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

HAWK-I (High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager), instrument UT4, VLT

HET 9.3m Hobby-Eberly telescope, Mc Donald Observatory

HST Hubble Space Telescope

HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, mission Astro 1

HFI High Frequency Instrument (Planck satellite)

HEAO High Energy Astronomy Observatories

Herschel Cette mission est nommeee d’apres l'astronome William Herschel, qui a notamment mis en evidence le rayonnement IR

HIFI Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (instrument Herschel)

IRAC Infrared Array Camera (instrument du telescope spatial Spitzer)

IRAM Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique

IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite

IRC Infra Red Camera (instrument du telescope spatial AKARI)

IRTS IR Telescope in Space

ISAAC Infrared Spectrometer And Array Camera, instrument UT3, VLT

ISAS l'Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

ISO Infrared Space Observatory

IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer

JAXA Japan Aerospace EXploration Agency

JWST James Webb Space Telescope

JCMT James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

LFI Low Frequency Instrument (Planck satellite)

LAT (Large Area Telescope (instrument du telescope spatial Fermi)

MIPS Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer

MSX The Midcourse Space EXperiment

MIPS Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer

MKO Mauna Kea Observatories avec les télescopes: CSO 10.4m submillimeter, CFHT 3.58m visible/infrared, Gemini North 8.1m visible/infrared, IRTF 3.0m infrared, JCMT 15m submillimeter, Subaru Telescope 8.2m visible/infrared, SMA 6m arrayed radio telescopes (x8), UKIRT 3.8m infrared, VLBA receiver 25m radio telescope, Keck I et II 10m visible/infrared, UH88 2.2m visible/infrared

NAIC National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (instrument du télescope spatial HST)

NIVR Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes

NOFS Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station in Arizona

NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory

OAO-2 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-2

OGLE Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

OM Optical Monitor (instrument de l'observatoire spatial XMM-Netwon)

OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (instrument de l'observatoire spatial CGRO)

PACS Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer

RATAN Radio Telescope de l'Academie des Sciences

RGC Reflection Grating Spectrometer (instrument de l'observatoire spatial XMM-Netwon)

RKA Agence spatiale federale russe

ROSAT Rontgensatellit

RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SMM Solar Maximum Mission

SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (instrument Herschel)

SPIRE Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (instrument Herschel)

STEREO Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory

Spitzer - telescope spatial nomme Spitzer, du nom d'un scientifique americain, Lyman Spitzer.

STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (instrument du télescope spatial HST)

SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

UCAC USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog

UKIRT United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

UVOT Ultra Violet Optical Telescope (instrument du télescope spatial SWIFT)

UIT Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope , mission Astro 1

UT1 Unit Telescope 1 / Antu (Le Soleil), mis en service en juin 1998

UT2 Unit Telescope 2 / Kueyen (La Lune), mis en service en octobre 1999

UT3 Unit Telescope 3 / Melipal (la Croix du Sud), mis en service en janvier 2000

UT4 Unit Telescope 4 / Yepun (Vénus), mis en service en septembre 2000

UVES Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph ; instrument UT2, VLT

VIMOS Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph, instrument UT3, VLT

VISTA Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy

VISIR VLT Imager and Spectrometer for the mid-InfraRed, instrument UT3, VLT

VLT Very Large Telescope

VST VLT Survey Telescope

XMM-Newton XMM - X-ray Multi-Mirror

XRT X-Ray Telescope (instrument du telescope spatial SWIFT)

WIR Cam Wide-field Infra Red Camera , instrument du telescope CFHT

WISE Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer

WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimetry Experiment, mission Astro 1