| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 621 | 45 | 2.004091 | 0305189,0305528,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 236 | 34 | 1.000926 | 0305437,0305008,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 269 | 33 | 2.001425 | 0305378,0305509,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 546 | 25 | 2.004399 | 0305378,0305008,etc |
| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 492 | 24 | 2.002366 | 0305228,0305095,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 234 | 21 | 2.002792 | 0305076,0305495,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 35 | 19 | 1.000296 | 0305100,0305022,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 658 | 18 | 2.008575 | 0305141,0305410,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 108 | 17 | 2.000869 | 0305437,0305322,etc |
| supernova | SN | 662 | 16 | 1.006771 | 0305259,0305182,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 160 | 15 | 2.001927 | 0305437,0305008,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 218 | 15 | 1.004171 | 0305437,0305299,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 353 | 15 | 1.003407 | 0305355,0305067,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 180 | 13 | 2.002059 | 0305471,0305032,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | S/N | 101 | 12 | 1.001118 | 0305008,0305605,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 61 | 11 | 1.001335 | 0305119,0305589,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 136 | 11 | 1.004175 | 0305506,0305318,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 370 | 11 | 1.008623 | 0305574,0305168,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 147 | 10 | 1.003774 | 0305437,0305384,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 214 | 10 | 1.003524 | 0305437,0305299,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 175 | 10 | 2.004041 | 0305259,0305574,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 111 | 10 | 2.00113 | 0305551,0305282,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 171 | 9 | 2.002596 | 0305119,0305420,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 88 | 9 | 1.001113 | 0305022,0305521,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 161 | 9 | 2.004639 | 0305385,0305506,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 329 | 9 | 2.0063 | 0305002,0305221,etc |
| field of view | FOV | 28 | 9 | 1.000438 | 0305032,0305027,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 64 | 9 | 1.001015 | 0305333,0305409,etc |
| two micron all sky survey | 2MASS | 199 | 8 | 1.002294 | 0305437,0305385,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 96 | 8 | 2.001984 | 0305100,0305124,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 36 | 8 | 1.00056 | 0305008,0305232,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 31 | 8 | 1.000292 | 0305259,0305266,etc |
| near infrared | NIR | 112 | 8 | 2.002578 | 0305170,0305232,etc |
| max planck institute for astronomy | MPIA | 8 | 8 | 1.000083 | 0305347,0305492,etc |
| max planck institute for astrophysics | MPA | 8 | 8 | 1.000083 | 0305347,0305492,etc |
| advanced ccd imaging spectrometer | ACIS | 106 | 8 | 1.000685 | 0305132,0305087,etc |
| lyman break galaxy | LBG | 71 | 8 | 2.001841 | 0305409,0305342,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 223 | 7 | 2.00464 | 0305445,0305459,etc |
| wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe | WMAP | 50 | 7 | 2.002208 | 0305528,0305471,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | KS | 18 | 7 | 1.001053 | 0305385,0305215,etc |
| pulsar wind nebula | PWN | 255 | 7 | 2.002365 | 0305574,0305168,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 249 | 7 | 2.003678 | 0305009,0305318,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 109 | 7 | 1.00333 | 0305150,0305164,etc |
| infrared | IR | 344 | 6 | 1.005724 | 0305437,0305170,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 63 | 6 | 2.001224 | 0305437,0305508,etc |
| friedmann robertson walker | FRW | 28 | 6 | 1.001316 | 0305528,0305179,etc |
| wide field planetary camera 2 | WFPC2 | 26 | 6 | 1.000485 | 0305259,0305318,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 62 | 6 | 2.00177 | 0305062,0305061,etc |
| line of sight | LOS | 20 | 6 | 1.000701 | 0305153,0305248,etc |
| cataclysmic variable | CV | 96 | 6 | 2.003743 | 0305384,0305270,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 11 | 6 | 1.000211 | 0305299,0305574,etc |
| cosmic ray | CR | 80 | 6 | 1.002419 | 0305369,0305367,etc |
| european southern observatory | ESO | 23 | 6 | 1.000352 | 0305228,0305328,etc |
| brightest cluster galaxy | BCG | 122 | 6 | 2.003226 | 0305228,0305215,etc |
| principal component analysis | PCA | 50 | 6 | 1.002408 | 0305077,0305587,etc |
| very large telescope | VLT | 19 | 6 | 1.000486 | 0305388,0305232,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 6 | 6 | 1.000094 | 0305492,0305041,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 101 | 6 | 2.001642 | 0305138,0305286,etc |
| sunyaev zel'dovich | SZ | 82 | 5 | 2.005952 | 0305515,0305112,etc |
| surface brightness | SB | 171 | 5 | 1.002788 | 0305521,0305326,etc |
| massive black hole | MBH | 216 | 5 | 2.007672 | 0305605,0305062,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 42 | 5 | 1.002987 | 0305385,0305318,etc |
| large scale structure | LSS | 71 | 5 | 1.002346 | 0305495,0305591,etc |
| galactic center | GC | 58 | 5 | 1.001356 | 0305075,0305062,etc |
| young stellar object | YSO | 43 | 5 | 1.001527 | 0305170,0305108,etc |
| charge transfer inefficiency | CTI | 13 | 5 | 1.000276 | 0305170,0305223,etc |
| probability distribution function | PDF | 90 | 5 | 2.002783 | 0305381,0305203,etc |
| proportional counter array | PCA | 29 | 5 | 1.00056 | 0305130,0305466,etc |
| black hole | BH | 129 | 5 | 2.005445 | 0305584,0305029,etc |
| big bang nucleosynthesis | BBN | 25 | 5 | 1.001404 | 0305009,0305033,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 118 | 5 | 2.00335 | 0305072,0305257,etc |
| extremely red object | ERO | 15 | 5 | 1.000195 | 0305375,0305586,etc |
| adaptive optics | AO | 54 | 5 | 2.000933 | 0305316,0305044,etc |
| narrow line region | NLR | 28 | 4 | 1.000812 | 0305100,0305130,etc |
| high surface brightness | HSB | 36 | 4 | 2.000613 | 0305022,0305521,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 25 | 4 | 2.000735 | 0305022,0305033,etc |
| integrated sachs wolfe | ISW | 51 | 4 | 2.003072 | 0305468,0305097,etc |
| sunyaev zeldovich | SZ | 54 | 4 | 2.002873 | 0305468,0305228,etc |
| broad absorption line | BAL | 98 | 4 | 1.004799 | 0305124,0305309,etc |
| deep extragalactic evolutionary probe | DEEP | 5 | 4 | 1.000015 | 0305023,0305312,etc |
| weakly interacting massive particle | WIMP | 86 | 4 | 2.00385 | 0305075,0305033,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 237 | 4 | 2.009517 | 0305355,0305469,etc |
| zero age main sequence | ZAMS | 17 | 4 | 2.000647 | 0305355,0305209,etc |
| william herschel telescope | WHT | 30 | 4 | 2.000309 | 0305032,0305427,etc |
| fundamental plane | FP | 45 | 4 | 2.002249 | 0305112,0305060,etc |
| total variation diminishing | TVD | 26 | 4 | 1.001708 | 0305203,0305088,etc |
| ultra high energy cosmic ray | UHECR | 31 | 4 | 2.001586 | 0305457,0305038,etc |
| 2df galaxy redshift survey | 2dFGRS | 71 | 4 | 2.00399 | 0305077,0305051,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 18 | 4 | 1.000536 | 0305402,0305087,etc |
| mid infrared | mid-IR | 29 | 4 | 1.002153 | 0305522,0305375,etc |
| high resolution camera | HRC | 24 | 4 | 2.001591 | 0305087,0305540,etc |
| far ultraviolet | FUV | 50 | 4 | 2.001535 | 0305476,0305017,etc |
| singular isothermal sphere | SIS | 42 | 4 | 1.000922 | 0305174,0305493,etc |
| pre main sequence | pre-MS | 45 | 4 | 2.001914 | 0305209,0305501,etc |
| south pole telescope | SPT | 31 | 3 | 2.000297 | 0305515,0305570,etc |
| space infrared telescope facility | SIRTF | 64 | 3 | 1.001823 | 0305378,0305437,etc |
| position angle | PA | 31 | 3 | 2.000576 | 0305100,0305022,etc |
| inverse compton scattering | ICS | 13 | 3 | 1.000254 | 0305119,0305290,etc |
| canada france hawaii telescope | CFHT | 18 | 3 | 1.000274 | 0305008,0305050,etc |
| cerro tololo inter american observatory | CTIO | 38 | 3 | 1.00038 | 0305008,0305026,etc |
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