| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 875 | 42 | 2.003503 | 0105293,0105270,etc |
| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 475 | 27 | 2.002898 | 0105337,0105230,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 170 | 26 | 1.001164 | 0105453,0105491,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 302 | 23 | 2.001849 | 0105293,0105349,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 252 | 19 | 1.002443 | 0105054,0105013,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 191 | 18 | 1.00167 | 0105419,0105550,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 164 | 17 | 1.002055 | 0105539,0105149,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 34 | 16 | 1.000533 | 0105083,0105124,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 102 | 16 | 2.000671 | 0105013,0105441,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 320 | 14 | 2.009827 | 0105013,0105536,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 485 | 14 | 2.004459 | 0105401,0105138,etc |
| supernova | SN | 827 | 13 | 2.008261 | 0105355,0105207,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 214 | 13 | 2.005224 | 0105454,0105282,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 182 | 11 | 1.001689 | 0105391,0105339,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 314 | 11 | 2.002033 | 0105339,0105558,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 168 | 11 | 1.00162 | 0105339,0105539,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 310 | 10 | 2.006754 | 0105047,0105319,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 251 | 10 | 2.003578 | 0105288,0105013,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 74 | 9 | 1.001371 | 0105344,0105188,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 130 | 9 | 1.000951 | 0105391,0105339,etc |
| quasi periodic oscillation | QPO | 466 | 9 | 1.01103 | 0105281,0105173,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 74 | 9 | 2.001722 | 0105058,0105555,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 491 | 9 | 2.006501 | 0105207,0105339,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 117 | 9 | 2.00132 | 0105458,0105539,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 134 | 8 | 2.004781 | 0105344,0105110,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 89 | 8 | 1.000951 | 0105555,0105207,etc |
| near infrared | near-IR | 98 | 8 | 1.002577 | 0105339,0105357,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 205 | 8 | 2.001548 | 0105181,0105012,etc |
| proportional counter array | PCA | 54 | 8 | 2.000972 | 0105247,0105042,etc |
| pre main sequence | PMS | 99 | 8 | 2.002317 | 0105291,0105210,etc |
| black hole | BH | 266 | 7 | 1.010089 | 0105230,0105539,etc |
| sunyaev zel'dovich | SZ | 848 | 7 | 2.005572 | 0105229,0105323,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 152 | 7 | 2.001869 | 0105558,0105144,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 168 | 7 | 2.001298 | 0105539,0105195,etc |
| high resolution imager | HRI | 93 | 7 | 2.00176 | 0105106,0105015,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | S/N | 32 | 7 | 1.000635 | 0105149,0105231,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 59 | 7 | 2.001503 | 0105016,0105056,etc |
| very long baseline array | VLBA | 62 | 7 | 2.002319 | 0105016,0105334,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 22 | 6 | 1.001026 | 0105047,0105477,etc |
| broad absorption line | BAL | 233 | 6 | 2.009878 | 0105337,0105279,etc |
| space telescope imaging spectrograph | STIS | 32 | 6 | 2.001498 | 0105230,0105487,etc |
| local thermodynamic equilibrium | LTE | 46 | 6 | 1.000844 | 0105216,0105262,etc |
| x ray background | XRB | 89 | 6 | 2.002692 | 0105125,0105525,etc |
| milky way | MW | 93 | 6 | 1.002334 | 0105207,0105092,etc |
| advection dominated accretion flow | ADAF | 26 | 6 | 1.000539 | 0105083,0105510,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 47 | 6 | 1.000282 | 0105241,0105418,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 6 | 6 | 1.000029 | 0105401,0105138,etc |
| big bang nucleosynthesis | BBN | 82 | 6 | 1.004117 | 0105483,0105361,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 367 | 6 | 2.012693 | 0105483,0105206,etc |
| star formation | SF | 229 | 6 | 2.007652 | 0105195,0105357,etc |
| giant molecular cloud | GMC | 44 | 6 | 2.001199 | 0105392,0105375,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 64 | 5 | 1.001619 | 0105133,0105235,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 31 | 5 | 1.001289 | 0105133,0105096,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 26 | 5 | 2.000295 | 0105314,0105181,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 33 | 5 | 2.001643 | 0105314,0105243,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | K-S | 13 | 5 | 1.000234 | 0105126,0105100,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 10 | 5 | 1.000254 | 0105138,0105291,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 75 | 5 | 1.002371 | 0105138,0105092,etc |
| position sensitive proportional counter | PSPC | 103 | 5 | 1.002869 | 0105106,0105149,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 102 | 5 | 2.003834 | 0105195,0105357,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 42 | 5 | 1.001992 | 0105262,0105565,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 64 | 5 | 2.001534 | 0105428,0105196,etc |
| hubble deep field | HDF | 34 | 5 | 1.002855 | 0105312,0105086,etc |
| soft gamma ray repeater | SGR | 58 | 4 | 1.006774 | 0105344,0105419,etc |
| local standard of rest | LSR | 15 | 4 | 1.000581 | 0105370,0105278,etc |
| high energy transmission grating spectrometer | HETGS | 24 | 4 | 1.001015 | 0105058,0105335,etc |
| wide field planetary camera 2 | WFPC2 | 46 | 4 | 2.001286 | 0105453,0105541,etc |
| bolometric corrections | BC | 11 | 4 | 1.000314 | 0105453,0105014,etc |
| black hole candidate | BHC | 54 | 4 | 2.00147 | 0105188,0105394,etc |
| proportional counter unit | PCU | 13 | 4 | 1.00031 | 0105110,0105394,etc |
| extreme ultraviolet | EUV | 60 | 4 | 1.001879 | 0105458,0105418,etc |
| probability distribution function | PDF | 135 | 4 | 2.007621 | 0105020,0105218,etc |
| 2df galaxy redshift survey | 2dFGRS | 64 | 4 | 1.002377 | 0105124,0105450,etc |
| global oscillation network group | GONG | 11 | 4 | 1.000995 | 0105211,0105393,etc |
| the red giant branch | TRGB | 60 | 4 | 2.000508 | 0105339,0105357,etc |
| rossi x ray timing explorer | RXTE | 28 | 4 | 2.000461 | 0105329,0105559,etc |
| white dwarf | WD | 68 | 4 | 2.001788 | 0105236,0105483,etc |
| synchrotron self compton | SSC | 19 | 4 | 2.000718 | 0105539,0105247,etc |
| cosmic microwave background radiation | CMBR | 63 | 4 | 1.003312 | 0105385,0105220,etc |
| red giant | RG | 34 | 4 | 2.001233 | 0105246,0105477,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 14 | 4 | 1.00022 | 0105219,0105545,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 15 | 4 | 1.000854 | 0105056,0105075,etc |
| warm ionized medium | WIM | 14 | 4 | 1.000362 | 0105451,0105147,etc |
| all sky monitor | ASM | 19 | 4 | 1.000934 | 0105022,0105182,etc |
| infrared | IR | 134 | 4 | 2.000609 | 0105402,0105006,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 9 | 4 | 1.000102 | 0105276,0105295,etc |
| european southern observatory | ESO | 13 | 3 | 1.000144 | 0105344,0105014,etc |
| dwarf spheroidal | dSph | 15 | 3 | 1.001056 | 0105391,0105135,etc |
| high energy transmission grating | HETG | 19 | 3 | 1.001938 | 0105058,0105060,etc |
| advanced ccd imaging spectrometer | ACIS | 11 | 3 | 1.000529 | 0105058,0105194,etc |
| charge transfer efficiency | CTE | 8 | 3 | 1.000039 | 0105453,0105283,etc |
| post t tauri stars | PTTS | 48 | 3 | 2.004628 | 0105288,0105210,etc |
| faint object spectrograph | FOS | 16 | 3 | 1.000552 | 0105230,0105044,etc |
| nrao vla sky survey | NVSS | 20 | 3 | 1.000497 | 0105125,0105267,etc |
| inverse compton scattering | IC | 58 | 3 | 2.000775 | 0105458,0105418,etc |
| low luminosity agn | LLAGN | 40 | 3 | 2.000395 | 0105083,0105510,etc |
| dielectronic recombination | DR | 39 | 3 | 1.005 | 0105459,0105206,etc |
| zero age main sequence | ZAMS | 10 | 3 | 1.001124 | 0105054,0105410,etc |
| fast fourier transform | FFT | 11 | 3 | 2.000974 | 0105122,0105173,etc |
| wide field and planetary camera 2 | WFPC2 | 20 | 3 | 1.000737 | 0105491,0105456,etc |
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