AGN = Active Galactic Nucleus
ALMA = Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array
ASKAP = Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder
ASTRON = Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
ATCA = Australia Telescope Compact Array
AVN = African VLBI Network
BIPM = Bureau International des Poids et Mésures
BS = beam splitter
CCD = charge-coupled device
CMB = Cosmic Microwave Background
COPS = complex operations per second
CP = correction/compensation plate
CPU = central processing unit
CSIRO = Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DM = dispersion measure
DSS = Digitized Sky Survey
EHT = Event Horizon Telescope
e-MERLIN = Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network
ET = Ephemeris Time
EVLA = Expanded Very Large Array
EVN = European VLBI Network
EVPA = Electric field Vector Position Angle
FFT = Fast Fourier Transform
FIRST = Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters
FoV = Field of View
FPGA = Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
FRB = Fast Radio Burst
GLEAM = GaLactic and Extra-Galactic All-sky MWA survey
GMRT = Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope
GMST = Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time
GMVA = Global mm-VLBI Array
GPS = Global Positioning System
HBA = High Band Antenna
HF = high frequency
HPBW = Half Power Beam Width
HST = Hubble Space Telescope
ICRAR =  International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
IF = intermediate frequency
IGM = intergalactic medium
ILT = International LOFAR Telescope
IRAM = Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique
ISM = interstellar medium
JVN = Japanese VLBI Network
KVN = Korean VLBI Network
LBA = Low Band Antenna
LHC = Large Hadron Collider
LHC = Left-hand Circularly Polarized Wave
LMST = Local Mean Sidereal Time
LO = local oscillator
LOFAR = Low Frequency Array
LoLSS = LOFAR LBA Sky Survey
LORAN-C = Long Range Navigation
LoTSS = LOFAR Two-Meter Sky Survey
LSB = lower sideband
LWA = Long Wavelength Array
MeerKAT = Karoo Array Telescope
MEM = Maximum Entropy Method
MWA = Murchison Widefield Array
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NGP = Galactic North Pole
NOEMA = Northern Extended Millimeter Array
NRAO = National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NVSS = NRAO-VLA Sky Survey
PMN = Parkes-MIT-NRAO 
RA = right ascension
RFI = Radio-Frequency Interferences
RHC = Right-hand Circularly Polarized Wave
RM = rotation measure
SDSS = Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SI = Système International
SKA = Square Kilometer Array
SMBH = Supermassive Black Hole
SNR = signal-to-noise ratio
STScl = Space Telescope Science Institute
SUMSS = Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey
TAI = International Atomic Time
TANAMI = Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry
TCB = Barycentric Coordinate Time
TCG = Geocentric Coordinate Time
TDRSS = Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TEC = Total Electron Content
THINGS = The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey
TT = Terrestrial Time
USB = upper sideband
UT = Universal Time
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
VERA = VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy array
(J)VLA = The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
VLBA = The Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI = Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLSS = VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey
VSOP = VLBI Space Observatory Programme
WENSS = Westerbork Northern Sky Survey
WSRT = Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope










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