astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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GEOS | (organization) Groupe Européen Observations Stellaires, an amateur and professional association for study of variable stars. | |
GERLUMPH | (instrumentation) GPU-Enabled, High Resolution MicroLensing Parameter survey, where GPU is an acronym for Graphics Processing Unit. | |
GH | (catalog) Giclas Hyades, a catalog of stars in the Hyades cluster | |
GHRS | (instrumentation) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, a spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope | |
GIA | (organization) Gruppo Italiano Astrometristi | |
GIMI | (instrumentation) Global Imaging Monitor of the Ionosphere, an ultraviolet imager on the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite | |
GJ | (catalog) Gliese & Jahreiß/Jahreiss nearby star catalog | |
GL | (catalog) Gliese nearby star catalog | |
GLAST | (telescope) Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope | |
GLIMPSE | (observing program) Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire | |
GMC | (celestial object) Giant molecular Cloud | |
GMF | (celestial object) Galactic Magnetic Field | |
GMRT | (telescope) Giant Meter Radio Telescope | |
GMT | (telescope) Giant Magellan Telescope, a telescope being built by a US-Australian collaboration | |
GONG | (organization) Global Oscillation Network Group, an organization that monitors oscillations in the Sun | |
GOODS | (survey) Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey a survey of various redshifts to study galactic formation and evolution | |
GP | (astrophysics terminology) Giant Pulses, a type of observed pulse emission from pulsars | |
GPS | (astrophysics teminology) GHz-Peaked Spectrum, the radio or microwave spectra of some galaxies | |
GR | (astrophysics terminology) General Relativity | |
GR | (catalog) Giclas Red dwarf, a catalog of red dwarfs | |
GRB | (celestial object) Gamma Ray Burst | |
GRO | (telescope) Gamma Ray Observatory, another name for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory | |
GROSCE | (telescope) Gamma Ray Burst Optical Counterparts Search Experiment, an automated telescope used to detect the optical counterparts to gamma ray bursts | |
GRS | (instrumentation) Gamma Ray Spectrometer, an instrument on the Mars Observer | |
GRS | (celestial object) Great Red Spot, a feature in the clouds of Jupiter | |
GSC | (catalog) Guide Star Catalog, a catalog of stars used for pointing the Hubble Space Telescope | |
GSC2 | (catalog) Guide Star Catalog version 2, a catalog of stars used for pointing the Hubble Space Telescope | |
GSFC | (organization) Goddard Space Flight Center, a NASA institution | |
GSPC | (catalog) Guide Star Photometric Catalog, a catalog of stars with precisely measured fluxes used to calibrate the Guide Star Catalog | |
GTC | (telescope) Gran Telescopio Canarias, the 10.4 m reflecting telescope on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain | |
HAe | (celestial object) Herbig Ae star | |
HAeBe | (celestial object) Herbig AeBe star, a type of pre-main sequence star with strong spectral emission lines | |
HALCA | (telescope) Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy, a satellite that is part of the VLBI Space Observatory Program, a Japanese radio astronomy project | |
HAO | (organization) High Altitude Observatory | |
HARPS | (instrumentation) High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, a high-precision spectrograph installed on the ESO 3.6m telescope | |
HASI | (instrumentation) Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument, an instrument on the Huygens probe | |
HB | (celestial object) Horizontal Branch, a type of evolved red giant star in which helium is burned in the core and hydrogen is burned in a shell around the core | |
HBe | (celestial object) Herbig Be star | |
HBMM | (astrophysics terminology) Hydrogen Burning Minimum Mass | |
HBRP | (celestial object) High-magnetic field Radio Pulsar | |
HBV | (catalog) Hamburg-Bergedorf Variables, a catalog of variable stars | |
HCO | (organization) Harvard College Observatory | |
HCS | (celestial object) Heliospheric Current Sheet, the boundary where the polarity of the Sun's magnetic field changes direction | |
HD | (catalog) Henry Draper, a catalog of stars | |
HDE | (catalog) Henry Draper Extension, a catalog of stars | |
HDF | (data/celestial object) Hubble Deep Field, an area of the sky with little foreground obscuration that was observed deeply with the Hubble Space Telescope; also the name for the data product itself | |
HDM | (astrophysics terminology) Hot Dark Matter, any | |
HDS | (instrumentation) High Dispersion Spectrograph, a spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope | |
HE | (catalog) Hamburg/ESO Survey | |
HEAO | (telescope) High Energy Astronomical Observatory, a series of X-ray and gamma ray space telescopes |