List of acronyms used in iCRAR Annual Reports
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| BAO | Baryon Acoustic Array |
| BETA | Boolardy Engineering Test Array |
| BIGHORNS | Broadband Instrument for the Global HydrOgen ReionizatioN Signal |
| BOINC | Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing |
| BU | Business Unit |
| CA | Consortium Agreements |
| CAA | Centre Agent Agreement |
| CAASTRO | ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics |
| CADC | Canadian Astronomical Data Centre |
| Caltech | California Institute of Technology |
| Cambridge | Cambridge University |
| CASS | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science at Marsfield Sydney |
| CDM | Cold Dark Matter |
| CDR | Critical Design Review |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CfA | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| CHILES | Cosmos Hi Large Extragalactic Survey |
| CHIPS | Cosmological HI Power Spectrum estimator |
| CIRA | Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy |
| CISCO | Multinational Company |
| CITS | Curtin Information Technology Services |
| CMT | Computer Modelling and Theory |
| CoE | Centre of Excellence |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| CORE | The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia |
| CRAFT | Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients |
| CSC | China Scholarship Council |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CSP | Central Signal Processor |
| Curtin | Curtin University of Technology |
| D1 | SDP Pre-construction Project |
| D2 | Survey Systems support Project |
| D3 | DIA systems Support Project |
| DAE | Deloitte Access Economics |
| DALiuGE | Data Activated Flow Graph Engine |
| DAWN | Cosmic Dawn Centre |
| DDN | Data Direct Networks |
| DECRA | Discovery Early Career Researcher Award |
| DEI | Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity |
| DES | Dark Energy Survey |
| DEVCOM | Development Committee |
| DEVILS | Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey |
| DFAT | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| DFN | Desert Fireball Network |
| DG | Director General |
| DHS | District High School |
| DIA | Data Intensive Astronomy |
| DIFX | Programs which allow correlation of interferometric baseband radio data |
| DIISR | Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research |
| DINGO | Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins ASKAP Survey |
| DIR | Data Intensive Research |
| DIRP | Data Intensive Research Project |
| DoIR | Department of Industry and Resources |
| E1 | Astronomical Instrumentation Project |
| E2 | LFAA Pre-construction Project |
| E3 | CSP Pre-construction Project |
| E4 | MRO Project |
| EAG | Education Advisory Group |
| EAGLE | Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments |
| EBL | Extragalactic Background Light |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECE | Electrical and Computer Engineering Department |
| ECP | Engineering Change Proposal/Process |
| ECR | Early Career Research |
| ECRF | Early Career Research Fellow |
| ED | Executive Director |
| EDA | Engineering Development Array |
| EELT | European Extremely Large Telescope |
| EIF | Education Infrastructure Fund |
| ELT | Extremely Large Telescope |
| EMC | Electromagnetic Compatibility |
| EMU | Evolutionary Map of the Universe |
| EoI | Expression of Interest |
| EoR | Epoch of Reionization |
| EPIC | Pawsey iVEC Supercomputer at Murdoch University |
| ERA | Excellence in Research Australia |
| ERIDANUS | Exascale Research Infrastructure for Data In Asia-Pacific Astronomy Using the SKA |
| eROSITA | extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESE | Extreme Scattering Event |
| ESFRI | European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure |
| ESO | European Southern Observatory |
| EU | European Union |
| F&A | Finance and Audit |
| F2J | Fortran to Java Free Development Software |
| FAA | The Financial Assistance Agreement |
| FAST | Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope |
| FEKO | a computational electromagnetics software product developed by Altair Engineering |
| Fellowship | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program |
| FIGS | Faint Infrared Grism Survey |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
| FORNAX | Pawsey iVEC Supercomputer at UWA |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| FRB | Fast Radio Bursts |
| FTE | Full Time Equivalent |
| FY | Financial year |
| GADGET-2 | A code for cosmological simulations of structure formation |
| GAIA | Space Exploration Mission |
| GAMA | Galaxy and Mass Assembly |
| GALFORM | Theoretical galaxy formation model |
| GASS | Galactic All Sky Survey |
| Gbps | Gigabits per second |
| GHz | Gigahertz |
| GLASS | GAMA Legacy ATCA Southern Survey |
| GLEAM | GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA |
| GMRT | Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope |
| GMT | Giant Magellan Telescope |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GRB | Gamma Ray Burst |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GSP | Gross State Product |
| Gyr | Gigayear |
| HDF5 | Data model, and file format for storing and managing data |
| HDR | Higher Degree Research |
| HI | Neutral Hydrogen |
| HIPASS2 | HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) |
| H-maser | Hydrogen maser clock |
| HPC | High Performance Computing |
| HPDC12 | High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing |
| HSE | Health and Safety Executive |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| HTRU | High Time Resolution Universe Survey |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| IAESS | Indigenous Australian Engineer Summer School |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICB | Infrastructure Co-ordination Board |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| ICEAA | International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications |
| ICNWA | Industry Capability Network Western Australia |
| ICRAR | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technologies |
| IEAC | International Engineering Advisory Committee |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IF | Impact Factor |
| IFS | Integral Field Spectroscopy |
| IGM | Inter-galactic Medium |
| IHL | Intra-halo Light |
| IFU | Integral Field Units |
| ILUA | Indigenous Land Use Agreement |
| IMAGINE | Imaging Galaxies’ Intergalactic and Nearby Environment |
| IMF | Initial Mass Function |
| INAF | Italian National Institute for Astrophysics |
| INTEL | American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| IPPAG | Industry Participation and Procurement Advisory Group |
| IPS | Interplanetary Scintillation |
| IPTA | International Pulsar Timing Array |
| IR | International Research |
| ISC | International Supercomputing Conference |
| ISM | Inter Stellar Medium |
| ISPO | International SKA Program Office |
| iVEC | Hub of Advanced Computing in WA |
| IVOA | International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
| IW8 | Infrastructure Working Group 8 – Extragalactic analysis pipeline |
| IYA | International Year of Astronomy |
| JACPOT | Jet Acceleration and Collimation Probe Of Transient X-Ray Binaries |
| JIVE | Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe |
| J-P | Jean-Pierre |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Labs |
| JV | Joint Venture |
| JVA | Joint Venture Agreement |
| JVLA | Karl G Jansky Very Large Array |
| JWST | The James Web Space Telescope |
| K12 | Kindergarten to Year 12 |
| KIAA | Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| KMUTT | King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| KSP | Key Science Project |
| LBA | Long Baseline Array |
| LFAA | Low Frequency Aperture Array |
| LIEF | Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities |
| LIGO | Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
| LINFRA | Local Infrastructure |
| LMC | Local monitoring and control |
| LNA | Low-noise Amplifiers |
| LOFAR | Low Frequency Array |
| LOI | Letter of Intent |
| LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| LWA | Long Wavelength Array |
| MALT | Millimetre Astronomers Large-area multi-Transition |
| MAVERIC | Milky Way ATCA VLA Exploration of Radio sources In Clusters |
| MCMC | Monte Carlo Markov Chain |
| meerKAT | South African SKA Pathfinder |
| MEM | Management Executive Meetings |
| MERAC | Mobilising European Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology |
| MEuro | Million Euro |
| MHz | Mega Hertz |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MIT/Haystack | Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Haystack Observatory |
| MIT/Kavli | Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research |
| MOST | Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope |
| MoU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| Mpc | Megaparsec |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| MRIWA | Mineral Research Institute of WA |
| MRO | Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory |
| MROI | Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory Instrumentation |
| MSE | Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer |
| MSO | Mt Stromlo Observatory |
| MST | Ministry of Science and Technology |
| MWA | Murchison Widefield Array |
| NAOC | National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| NARIT | National Astronomy Research Institute of Thailand |
| NCA | National Committee for Astronomy |
| NCI | National Computational Infrastructure ANU |
| NCRA, TIFR | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India |
| NCRIS | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy |
| NCSS | National Centre for SKA Science and High Performance Computing |
| NGAS | Next Generation Archive System |
| NI | National Instruments Corporation |
| NISA | National Innovation and Science Agenda |
| NL | Netherlands |
| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| NPV | Net Present Value |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | The National Science Foundation |
| nVIDIA | GPU Computing Multinational Company |
| OEC | Outreach Education & Communication |
| OH | Hydroxyl |
| OH&S | Occupational Health & Safety |
| OoS | Office of Science |
| OTAC | Optical Telescope Advisory Committee |
| OTC | Overseas Telecommunications Commission |
| PANSTARRS | Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System |
| PAPER | Precision Array Probing and Epoch of Reionization |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PDRA | Post Doctoral Research Associate |
| PEP | Pre-Construction Program |
| PG | Project Grant |
| PHISCC | Pathfinders HI Science Coordination Committee |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PIP | Physical implementation prototype |
| POGS | Pan-STARRS1 Optical Galaxy Survey |
| PPTA | Parkes Pulsar Timing Array |
| PR | Public Relations |
| PREPSKA | SKA Preparatory Phase Program |
| PSI | Poseidon Scientific Instruments |
| QSO | Quasi-stellar Object |
| Questacon | The National Science and Technology Centre |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RABD | Radio Astronomy Block Device |
| RALI | Radio Communications Assignments and Licensing Instruction |
| RASE | Radio Astronomy Science and Engineering |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RFoF | Radio-Frequency-over-Fibre |
| RfP | Request For Proposals |
| RQZ | Radio Quiet Zone |
| RRI | Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India |
| RSA | Republic of South Africa |
| RSAG | Regional Stakeholders Advisory Group |
| RSEC | Regional Science and Engineering Centre |
| RT | Resolution Team |
| SA | South Africa |
| SAC | Science Advisory Committee |
| SaDT | Signal and Data Transport |
| SAF | Science Archive Facility |
| SAGECal | An Expectation-Maximization Algorithm |
| SAMI | Sydney AAO Multi-Object Integral Field Spectrograph |
| SAO/NASA | Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics |
| SBWG | Strategy and Bid Working Group |
| SC1 | Murchison Widefield Array Science Curtin |
| Scitech | Science Discovery Centre in Perth WA |
| SD+PAF | Small Dish Plus Phased Array Feed |
| SDP | Science Data Processor |
| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| SEAC | SKA Science and Engineering Advisory Committee |
| SETI | Search For ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence |
| SFA | State Funding Agreement |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics Industry |
| SHAO | Shanghai Astronomy Observatory |
| SIDM | Self-Interacting Dark Matter |
| SIEF | Science Industry Endowment Fund |
| SIFA | Sydney Institute for Astronomy |
| SINGG | Survey of Ionisation in Neutral Gas Galaxies |
| SKA | Square Kilometre Array |
| SKADS | Square Kilometre Array Design Studies |
| SKALA | SKA Log-periodic Antenna |
| SKAMP | The SKA Molonglo Prototype |
| SKAO | Square Kilometre Array Organisation |
| SLA | Site License Agreements |
| SLAC | National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford USA |
| SLR | Single Lens Reflex |
| SMART | Software Methods, Approach, Research and Technologies |
| SME | Small and Medium Enterprises |
| SODP | SKA Observatory Development Program |
| SOFiA | Source Finding Application |
| SOW | Statements of Work |
| SOWG | Site Options Working Group |
| SPCG | Systems Project Control Group |
| SPDO | SKA Program Development Office |
| SPFR | Special Purpose Financial Report |
| SPICE | Secondary Science Teachers Professional Development Program |
| SPIE | International Society for Optics and Photonics |
| SPIRIT | Spice-Physics-ICRAR Remote Internet Telescope |
| SPLASH | Free and open source visualisation tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations |
| SPO | SKA Project Office |
| SQL | Special purpose programming language for managing data |
| SRC | SKA Regional Centre |
| SSA | Space Situational Awareness |
| SSAC | SKA Site Advisory Committee |
| SSEC | SKA Science and Engineering Committee |
| SSP | System Support Project |
| SSSP | Survey Science Support Project |
| STAC | Science and Technology Advisory Committee |
| STAG | Science and Technology Advisory Group |
| STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths |
| STFC | Science and Technology Facilities Council |
| STSci | Space Telescope Scientific Institute |
| SU1 | Gas and feedback with Radio Surveys Science UWA |
| SU2 | Multi-wavelength and Spectroscopic Surveys Science UWA |
| SU3 | Computational Theory and Modelling Science UWA |
| SUNGG | Survey of Ultraviolet emission in Neutral Gas Galaxies |
| SURFS | Synthetic Universes foR Future Surveys |
| SWG | Science Working Group |
| SWOT | Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats |
| TAIPAN | Planned optical survey |
| TDP | Technical Demonstrator Program |
| TFLOPS | Tera Floating-point operations per second |
| theSKYNet | ICRAR’s community computing project dedicated to radio astronomy |
| THINGS | The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey |
| THOR | The HI, OH, Recombination Line survey |
| TM | Telescope Manager |
| TMT | Thirty Meter Telescope |
| U Melb | University of Melbourne |
| U Washington | University of Washington |
| UC | University of California |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| ULXs | Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources |
| UPA | University Postgraduate Award – PhD Scholarships |
| URSI | International Union of Radio Science |
| UTMOST | Upgrade of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| UWA | The University of Western Australia |
| VAST | ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients |
| VCS | Voltage Capture System |
| V-FASTR | VLA Fast Radio Transients Experiment |
| VIKING | VISTA’s Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy |
| VISTA | Visible Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy |
| VLA | Very Large Array |
| VLBA | Very Long Baseline Array |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| VOTC | Virtual Observatory Technology Centre |
| VST KiDS | Survey Telescope Kilo-Degree Survey |
| VU | Variable Universe |
| WA | Western Australia/n |
| WALLABY | Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind SurveY |
| WARAC | Western Australian Radio Astronomy Committee |
| WARASE CoE | Western Australian Radio Astronomy Science and Engineering Centre of Excellence |
| WASKAC | Western Australian Square Kilometre Array Committee |
| WAVES | Wide Area Vista Extragalactic Survey |
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structures |
| WDM | Warm Dark Matter |
| WFIRST | Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope |
| WP | Work Package |
| WSRT | Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope |
| XMM | X-Ray Multi-mirror Mission |
| XXL | Large survey of the X-ray sky with the XMM-Newton space observatory |