| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 1310 | 107 | 1.722393 | 9601088,9601060,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 1616 | 98 | 1.574244 | 9601179,9601125,etc |
| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 1108 | 82 | 1.599867 | 9602118,9602068,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 772 | 74 | 1.582603 | 9601002,9601162,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 688 | 71 | 1.578907 | 9601195,9601040,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 581 | 49 | 1.797452 | 9601166,9601050,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 444 | 41 | 1.586845 | 9602064,9602047,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 825 | 41 | 1.759509 | 9602044,9602066,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 650 | 39 | 1.644195 | 9601122,9601001,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 61 | 38 | 1.000287 | 9602080,9602084,etc |
| big bang nucleosynthesis | BBN | 399 | 32 | 1.501878 | 9601158,9601134,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 267 | 32 | 1.751407 | 9601082,9601050,etc |
| supernova | SN | 854 | 25 | 1.727786 | 9602056,9602004,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | K-S | 153 | 24 | 1.209246 | 9601177,9601013,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 314 | 22 | 1.319969 | 9601117,9601017,etc |
| position sensitive proportional counter | PSPC | 286 | 21 | 1.811084 | 9601162,9601107,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 858 | 20 | 1.906665 | 9601165,9601013,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 249 | 20 | 1.701036 | 9602004,9602127,etc |
| tully fisher | TF | 1048 | 20 | 1.65327 | 9604151,9604114,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 312 | 19 | 1.475012 | 9602132,9602057,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 250 | 19 | 1.73759 | 9602132,9602057,etc |
| hubble deep field | HDF | 318 | 18 | 2.00202 | 9603149,9603020,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 324 | 17 | 1.003551 | 9601075,9601150,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 162 | 17 | 1.589683 | 9603096,9603161,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 659 | 17 | 2.006684 | 9605005,9605014,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 169 | 16 | 1.626305 | 9607063,9607126,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 418 | 15 | 2.002752 | 9602156,9602092,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | SNR | 86 | 15 | 1.733677 | 9604042,9604096,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 311 | 14 | 1.715782 | 9601141,9601166,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 103 | 14 | 1.572404 | 9604148,9604163,etc |
| canada france redshift survey | CFRS | 255 | 13 | 1.464315 | 9601050,9601047,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 419 | 13 | 1.623819 | 9601005,9601186,etc |
| cosmic microwave background radiation | CMBR | 184 | 13 | 1.84836 | 9603064,9603150,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 128 | 12 | 2.001713 | 9605186,9605011,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 306 | 11 | 2.003242 | 9605001,9605110,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 53 | 11 | 1.364012 | 9605114,9605170,etc |
| friedmann robertson walker | FRW | 49 | 10 | 1.300447 | 9601163,9601147,etc |
| canada france hawaii telescope | CFHT | 21 | 10 | 1.000133 | 9601047,9601014,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 132 | 10 | 1.802348 | 9603111,9603066,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 704 | 10 | 2.005495 | 9604055,9604168,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 72 | 10 | 1.000944 | 9605199,9605126,etc |
| burst and transient source experiment | BATSE | 120 | 10 | 1.402042 | 9606019,9606181,etc |
| high resolution imager | HRI | 133 | 10 | 1.801522 | 9607007,9607120,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 140 | 10 | 1.802659 | 9609051,9609172,etc |
| sunyaev zel'dovich | SZ | 101 | 9 | 1.779445 | 9602075,9602061,etc |
| broad emission line region | BELR | 44 | 9 | 1.22326 | 9603055,9603057,etc |
| narrow line region | NLR | 121 | 9 | 1.668205 | 9603055,9603161,etc |
| compton gamma ray observatory | CGRO | 34 | 9 | 1.223038 | 9605082,9605022,etc |
| national aeronautics and space administration/goddard space flight center | NASA/GSFC | 19 | 8 | 1.000297 | 9601060,9601066,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 69 | 8 | 1.750479 | 9601097,9601173,etc |
| x ray background | XRB | 242 | 8 | 2.001408 | 9602075,9602061,etc |
| colour magnitude diagram | CMD | 112 | 8 | 1.752735 | 9602132,9602066,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 215 | 8 | 2.004605 | 9602129,9602042,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 164 | 8 | 1.752737 | 9602089,9602014,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 68 | 8 | 1.625496 | 9603041,9603055,etc |
| cosmic ray | CR | 339 | 8 | 2.007913 | 9603144,9603111,etc |
| mass function | MF | 143 | 8 | 2.002495 | 9604144,9604055,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 103 | 8 | 1.379011 | 9604053,9604054,etc |
| european southern observatory | ESO | 39 | 8 | 1.501177 | 9605131,9605195,etc |
| gas imaging spectrometers | GIS | 71 | 8 | 1.500455 | 9606169,9606085,etc |
| ultraviolet imaging telescope | UIT | 92 | 8 | 1.752324 | 9609127,9609101,etc |
| auto correlation function | ACF | 87 | 7 | 2.002146 | 9601171,9601178,etc |
| distribution function | DF | 161 | 7 | 1.575407 | 9601044,9601040,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 43 | 7 | 1.714618 | 9601016,9601162,etc |
| wide field and planetary camera 2 | WFPC2 | 59 | 7 | 1.714707 | 9602078,9602044,etc |
| globular cluster luminosity function | GCLF | 186 | 7 | 2.00364 | 9604036,9604168,etc |
| massive compact halo object | Macho | 134 | 7 | 1.286544 | 9604176,9604095,etc |
| particle mesh | PM | 62 | 7 | 1.286706 | 9605179,9605126,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 121 | 7 | 2.004629 | 9606165,9606134,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 95 | 7 | 2.00148 | 9608064,9608152,etc |
| extended medium sensitivity survey | EMSS | 119 | 6 | 1.668225 | 9601194,9601173,etc |
| local group | LG | 61 | 6 | 2.000345 | 9602075,9602061,etc |
| singular isothermal sphere | SIS | 50 | 6 | 1.667299 | 9603146,9603132,etc |
| giant molecular cloud | GMC | 72 | 6 | 1.33405 | 9604053,9604173,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 140 | 6 | 2.001927 | 9604082,9604030,etc |
| william herschel telescope | WHT | 14 | 6 | 1.000148 | 9604159,9604100,etc |
| probability distribution function | PDF | 106 | 6 | 2.002828 | 9606088,9606005,etc |
| kitt peak national observatory | KPNO | 14 | 6 | 1.000194 | 9610117,9610082,etc |
| differential microwave radiometers | DMR | 200 | 5 | 2.003485 | 9601060,9601066,etc |
| position angle | PA | 82 | 5 | 1.603227 | 9601002,9601165,etc |
| hopkins ultraviolet telescope | HUT | 48 | 5 | 2.000511 | 9603055,9603057,etc |
| cross correlation function | CCF | 96 | 5 | 2.002655 | 9605189,9605080,etc |
| new technology telescope | NTT | 15 | 5 | 1.000431 | 9606086,9606114,etc |
| total variation diminishing | TVD | 78 | 5 | 1.403233 | 9607141,9607049,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 51 | 5 | 2.001021 | 9608092,9608007,etc |
| cerro tololo interamerican observatory | CTIO | 18 | 5 | 1.400145 | 9610117,9610118,etc |
| surface brightness fluctuation | SBF | 51 | 5 | 1.400741 | 9610200,9610066,etc |
| ryle telescope | RT | 23 | 5 | 1.002128 | 9611213,9611212,etc |
| san diego supercomputer center | SDSC | 4 | 4 | 1.000149 | 9601148,9601149,etc |
| black hole | BH | 125 | 4 | 2.004554 | 9601025,9601092,etc |
| las campanas redshift survey | LCRS | 25 | 4 | 1.500323 | 9601166,9601097,etc |
| hot dark matter | HDM | 24 | 4 | 1.501453 | 9601125,9601134,etc |
| near infrared | near-IR | 46 | 4 | 2.000881 | 9601005,9601048,etc |
| full width half maximum | FWHM | 25 | 4 | 1.500985 | 9601196,9601174,etc |
| faint object camera | FOC | 43 | 4 | 1.501076 | 9602047,9602084,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 23 | 4 | 2.000292 | 9603161,9603111,etc |
| power density spectrum | PDS | 57 | 4 | 2.001286 | 9603154,9603112,etc |
| high mass x ray binary | HMXB | 28 | 4 | 2.001412 | 9605186,9605058,etc |
| canadian network for observational cosmology | CNOC | 27 | 4 | 1.500682 | 9605144,9605159,etc |
| cosmic background explorer | COBE | 22 | 4 | 1.00011 | 9605057,9605123,etc |
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