| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 905 | 62 | 2.005826 | 0310196,0310663,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 243 | 44 | 1.001248 | 0310437,0310317,etc |
| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 742 | 40 | 2.003082 | 0310252,0310450,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 196 | 35 | 2.000973 | 0310196,0310317,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 887 | 31 | 2.00523 | 0310196,0310912,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 303 | 30 | 2.002803 | 0310147,0310547,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 242 | 27 | 2.004988 | 0310437,0310761,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 256 | 26 | 1.00291 | 0310437,0310160,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 69 | 26 | 1.000422 | 0310212,0310669,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 349 | 25 | 1.001405 | 0310196,0310437,etc |
| supernova | SN | 811 | 24 | 2.012392 | 0310117,0310768,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 201 | 21 | 2.001231 | 0310663,0310521,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 528 | 21 | 1.004571 | 0310687,0310405,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 333 | 20 | 2.004397 | 0310318,0310197,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 312 | 19 | 2.002649 | 0310478,0310045,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 456 | 19 | 2.008318 | 0310310,0310373,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 488 | 17 | 2.00871 | 0310437,0310017,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 86 | 15 | 1.00115 | 0310437,0310399,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 254 | 14 | 2.000926 | 0310196,0310437,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 138 | 14 | 2.001442 | 0310041,0310443,etc |
| cataclysmic variable | CV | 170 | 14 | 1.00516 | 0310244,0310144,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 984 | 13 | 2.01754 | 0310441,0310347,etc |
| infrared | IR | 224 | 12 | 2.005697 | 0310196,0310456,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 180 | 12 | 2.00278 | 0310196,0310210,etc |
| white dwarf | WD | 457 | 12 | 1.010328 | 0310160,0310244,etc |
| near infrared | NIR | 136 | 12 | 2.003245 | 0310516,0310371,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 201 | 12 | 2.001315 | 0310017,0310176,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 33 | 12 | 1.000508 | 0310441,0310388,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | SN | 48 | 11 | 1.000558 | 0310318,0310083,etc |
| field of view | FoV | 60 | 11 | 1.001985 | 0310025,0310687,etc |
| position angle | PA | 94 | 11 | 2.001196 | 0310193,0310373,etc |
| intra cluster medium | ICM | 176 | 10 | 1.002016 | 0310196,0310448,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 322 | 10 | 2.003364 | 0310196,0310346,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 107 | 10 | 2.002737 | 0310790,0310890,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 82 | 10 | 1.001765 | 0310761,0310462,etc |
| ultraluminous infrared galaxy | ULIRG | 260 | 10 | 2.002942 | 0310117,0310293,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 161 | 10 | 1.002514 | 0310160,0310380,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 340 | 10 | 1.003851 | 0310197,0310205,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 159 | 10 | 2.001637 | 0310197,0310477,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 126 | 10 | 2.001496 | 0310547,0310376,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 12 | 10 | 1.000105 | 0310453,0310267,etc |
| max planck institute for astronomy | MPIA | 12 | 10 | 1.000223 | 0310453,0310267,etc |
| max planck institute for astrophysics | MPA | 10 | 10 | 1.00022 | 0310453,0310267,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 20 | 9 | 1.000343 | 0310516,0310478,etc |
| quasi periodic oscillation | QPO | 102 | 9 | 1.001624 | 0310230,0310271,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 113 | 9 | 1.005475 | 0310199,0310545,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 307 | 9 | 2.007993 | 0310917,0310694,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 124 | 9 | 2.007488 | 0310310,0310518,etc |
| pulsar wind nebula | PWN | 182 | 9 | 2.009003 | 0310405,0310380,etc |
| space telescope imaging spectrograph | STIS | 126 | 9 | 2.001149 | 0310372,0310769,etc |
| lyman break galaxy | LBG | 42 | 8 | 1.000367 | 0310437,0310478,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 163 | 8 | 1.002219 | 0310317,0310055,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | K-S | 35 | 8 | 2.001772 | 0310496,0310431,etc |
| wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe | WMAP | 173 | 8 | 2.00283 | 0310856,0310186,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 40 | 8 | 2.00088 | 0310567,0310144,etc |
| black hole | BH | 214 | 8 | 2.008263 | 0310323,0310739,etc |
| proportional counter array | PCA | 106 | 7 | 2.001355 | 0310852,0310726,etc |
| very large telescope | VLT | 28 | 7 | 2.000876 | 0310437,0310117,etc |
| star formation history | SFH | 133 | 7 | 2.00282 | 0310768,0310388,etc |
| cosmic ray | CR | 420 | 7 | 2.006997 | 0310025,0310367,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 143 | 7 | 2.006435 | 0310376,0310251,etc |
| weakly interacting massive particle | WIMP | 139 | 7 | 2.008184 | 0310707,0310473,etc |
| astronomical image processing system | AIPS | 17 | 7 | 1.000291 | 0310305,0310393,etc |
| william herschel telescope | WHT | 28 | 6 | 2.000942 | 0310117,0310378,etc |
| pre main sequence | PMS | 107 | 6 | 2.001508 | 0310378,0310319,etc |
| x ray background | XRB | 21 | 6 | 1.001794 | 0310371,0310669,etc |
| early data release | EDR | 27 | 6 | 1.000408 | 0310371,0310249,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 21 | 6 | 1.001082 | 0310371,0310834,etc |
| probability distribution function | PDF | 124 | 6 | 2.00203 | 0310063,0310825,etc |
| high velocity cloud | HVC | 174 | 6 | 1.011722 | 0310192,0310799,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 148 | 6 | 1.00765 | 0310818,0310267,etc |
| radial velocity | RV | 42 | 6 | 1.00202 | 0310750,0310729,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 84 | 6 | 1.001802 | 0310304,0310463,etc |
| two micron all sky survey | 2MASS | 115 | 6 | 1.003053 | 0310396,0310131,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 287 | 6 | 2.008214 | 0310485,0310159,etc |
| period luminosity | P/L | 51 | 6 | 1.001307 | 0310540,0310159,etc |
| anomalous x ray pulsar | AXP | 173 | 5 | 2.008107 | 0310852,0310455,etc |
| brightest cluster galaxy | BCG | 158 | 5 | 2.003613 | 0310196,0310778,etc |
| faint object spectrograph | FOS | 37 | 5 | 1.001958 | 0310437,0310165,etc |
| internal linear combination | ILC | 88 | 5 | 2.007661 | 0310252,0310601,etc |
| adaptive optics | AO | 74 | 5 | 1.004803 | 0310197,0310371,etc |
| digitized sky survey | DSS | 77 | 5 | 2.004072 | 0310220,0310842,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamics | MHD | 80 | 5 | 2.002168 | 0310230,0310902,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 117 | 5 | 2.002088 | 0310157,0310696,etc |
| nasa extragalactic database | NED | 8 | 5 | 1.000218 | 0310384,0310916,etc |
| milky way | MW | 25 | 5 | 2.000748 | 0310545,0310576,etc |
| circumstellar medium | CSM | 36 | 5 | 1.001618 | 0310113,0310518,etc |
| dwarf spheroidal | dSph | 125 | 5 | 2.002192 | 0310477,0310205,etc |
| millisecond pulsar | MSPSR | 91 | 5 | 2.000812 | 0310671,0310347,etc |
| extremely red object | ERO | 64 | 5 | 1.007312 | 0310251,0310742,etc |
| goddard high resolution spectrograph | GHRS | 25 | 5 | 2.000599 | 0310669,0310627,etc |
| radio frequency interference | RFI | 21 | 5 | 1.000535 | 0310521,0310232,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 132 | 5 | 1.003587 | 0310388,0310228,etc |
| james clerk maxwell telescope | JCMT | 26 | 5 | 1.000198 | 0310340,0310266,etc |
| gravitational wave | GW | 58 | 5 | 2.002531 | 0310163,0310735,etc |
| local thermodynamic equilibrium | LTE | 25 | 5 | 2.001612 | 0310738,0310262,etc |
| synchrotron self compton | SSC | 46 | 5 | 2.000622 | 0310158,0310391,etc |
| cosmic microwave background radiation | CMBR | 36 | 5 | 1.000756 | 0310465,0310643,etc |
| magnetorotational instability | MRI | 145 | 5 | 2.003866 | 0310817,0310832,etc |
| polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon | PAH | 107 | 5 | 2.004903 | 0310490,0310721,etc |
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