======== Glossary of Terms Common to the Project ======== ==== a ==== **AARNet**- Australia's Academic and Research Network \\ **AGN**- Active Galactic Nuclei \\ **AIPS**- Astronomical Image Processing System \\ **ALBUS**- Advanced Long Baseline User Software \\ **ANGLES**- Astrophysics Network for Galaxy LEnsing Studies \\ **ANTAB**- File containing aprioiri station calibration information, used in AIPS \\ **ANTABFS**- “Raw” version of ANTAB \\ **ASTRON**- Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy \\ **ATCA**- Australia Telescope Compact Array \\ **ATNF**- Australia Telescope National Facility \\ \\ ==== b ==== **BBC**- BaseBand Converter \\ **BL-Lac**- BL Lacertae \\ **Bwctl**- Bandwith Test Controller \\ \\ ==== c ==== **CALC**- Program to compute the apriori geometric delay-model \\ **CAS**- Chinese Academy of Sciences \\ **CASA**- Common Astronomy Software Applications \\ **C‑band** 5 GHz observing band \\ **CCC**- Correlator Control Computer \\ **CeNTIE**- Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy \\ **CfA**- Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA, USA) \\ **CJF**- Caltech-Jodrell Flat spectrum Survey \\ **Cm-* baseline**- Cambridge-to-all-stations baseline \\ **COSMIC**- Continuous Single-disc Monitoring of Intra-day variability at Ceduna \\ **CPU**- Central Processor Unit \\ **CSIRO**- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation \\ **CSO**- Compact Symmetric Object \\ \\ ==== d ==== **Da-* baseline**- Darnhall-to-all-stations baseline \\ **DANTE**- Delivery of Advanced Network Technology for Europe \\ **DEMON**- Dark Matter and Dark Energy \\ **DEVOS**- Deep Extragalactic VLBI-Optical Survey \\ **DFG**- German Science Foundation \\ **DPU**- Data Playback Unit \\ **DXRBS**- Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey \\ \\ ==== e ==== **EADS**- European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company \\ **EADS LIFE**- EADS Lunar Infrastructure For Exploration \\ **EC **- European Commission \\ **EGRET**- Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope \\ **ERI**- EVN Reliability Indicator \\ **ESA**- European Space Agency \\ **eSMA**- Extended SubMillimeter Array \\ **ESTRELA**- Early-Stage TRaining site for European Long-wavelength Astronomy \\ **EU**- European Union \\ **e-VLBI**- electronic VLBI \\ **EVN**- European VLBI Network \\ **EXPReS**- Express Production Real-Time e-VLBI Service \\ \\ ==== f ==== **FABRIC**- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio-telescopes on Internet Computing \\ **FIRST**- VLA Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-one Cm \\ **FITS**- Flexible Image Transport Systems \\ **FP6**- Framework Programme 6 \\ **FPGA**- Field Programmable Gate Array \\ **FTP**- File Transfer Protocol \\ \\ ==== g ==== **GARR**- Gestione Ampliamento Rete Ricerca (Italian Academic and Research Network) \\ **GB**- Gigabyte \\ **Gbps**- Gigabit per second \\ **GBT**- Green Bank Telescope \\ **GÉANT**- Pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network \\ **GeV**- Giga-electron-Volt \\ **GMRT**- Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope \\ **GPS**- Global Positioning System \\ **GPS**- GHz-Peaked-Spectrum \\ **GSFC**- Goddard Space Flight Center \\ \\ ==== h ==== **HDF-N**- Hubble Deep Field - North \\ **HFF**- Hubble Flanking Field \\ **HSA**- High Sensitivity Array \\ \\ ==== i ==== **I/O**- Input/Output \\ **IAA**- International Academy of Astronautics \\ **IDV**- intra-day variability \\ **IERS**- International Earth Rotation Service \\ **IGN**- Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) \\ **INAF**- Istituto Nazionale di Astropisica (Italy) \\ **IRA**- Istituto di Radioastronomia (Italy) \\ **IRAM**- Institut de Radio Astronomie Milimetrique \\ **ISM**- Interstellar Medium \\ **ISS**- interstellar scintillation \\ **IVS**- International VLBI Service \\ \\ ==== j ==== **Jb1+2**- Jodrell Bank telescopes 1 + 2 \\ **JBO**- Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK) \\ **JCCS**- JIVE Correlator Control Software \\ **JCMT**- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Hawaii, USA) \\ **JIVE**- Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe \\ **JPL**- Jet Propulsion Laboratory \\ \\ ==== k ==== **K‑band** ‑ 22 GHz observing band \\ \\ ==== l ==== **LAN**- Local Area Network \\ **LBA**- Australian Long Baseline Array \\ **L‑band** ‑ 1,6 GHz observing band \\ **LOFAR**- Low Frequency Array \\ **LTO**- Linear Tape Open (tape backup system) \\ \\ ==== m ==== **Mk5**- Mark 5 (PC based disk recording system) \\ **MASIV**- MicroArcsecond Scintillation-Induced Variability \\ **MB**- Megabyte \\ **Mbps**- Megabit per second \\ **MERLIN**- Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network \\ **MHz**- Mega Herz \\ **MIM**- minimum ionosphere model \\ **MPIfR**- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (Germany) \\ **MTU**- Maximum Transmission Unit \\ \\ ==== n ==== **NA**- Networking Activity \\ **NAOC**- National Astronomical Observatory of China \\ **NASA**- National Aeronautics and Space Administration \\ **NICT**- National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (Japan) \\ **NME**- Network Monitoring Experiment \\ **NOT**- Nordic Optical Telescope \\ **NRAO**- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA) \\ **NREN**- National Research and Education Network \\ **NWO**- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek \\ \\ ==== o ==== **OAN**- Observatorio Astronomico Nacional \\ **OSO**- Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden) \\ \\ ==== p ==== **PC-EVN**- disk‑based recording format \\ **PCInt**- Post-Correlator Integrator \\ **PERT**- Performance Enhancement and Response Team \\ **PI**- Principal Investigator \\ **PoP**- Point of Presence \\ **PPARC**- Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK) \\ **PSNC**- Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center \\ \\ ==== q ==== \\ ==== r ==== **RFI**- Radio Frequency Interference \\ **ROEN**- North-eastern Space Radio Observatory \\ **ROSAT**- Röntgen Satellite \\ **ROT (clocks)** Reconstituted Observing Time \\ **RuG**- University of Groningen \\ \\ ==== s ==== **SARA**- Dutch National Computer Centre \\ **SCARIe**- Software Correlator Architecture Research and Implementation for e-VLBI \\ **SCHED**- VLBI Scheduling Software, developed by NRAO \\ **SCUBA**- Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array \\ **SFXC**- Software FX correlator \\ **SHAO**- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (China) \\ **SKA**- Square Kilometer Array \\ **SKADS**- SKA Design Study \\ **Smart-1**- Small missions for Advanced Research in Technology \\ **SPIE**- International Society for Optical Engineering \\ **SURFNet**- Dutch Research Organisation \\ \\ ==== t ==== **TB**- Terabyte \\ **TeV **- Tera-electron-Volt \\ **TIGO**- Transportable Integrated Geodatic Observatory \\ **TNA**- Trans National Access \\ **TRM**- Track Recovery Module \\ \\ ==== u ==== **UAO**- Urumqi Astronomical Observatory (China) \\ **ULX**- Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources \\ **UTC**- Coordinated Universal Time \\ **UvA**- University of Amsterdam \\ **UVW**- Coordinate system for the visibility data as measured by an interferometric arary \\ \\ ==== v ==== **VC**- Video Channel \\ **VLA**- Very Large Array \\ **VLBA**- Very Long Baseline Array \\ **VLBEER**- EVN schedule server \\ **VLBI**- Very Long Baseline Interferometry \\ **VSOP**- VLBI Space Observatory Programme \\ \\ ==== w ==== **WSRT**- Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (Netherlands) \\ \\ ==== x ==== \\ ==== y ==== \\ ==== z ==== \\