| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 8068 | 473 | 1.758548 | 0301040,0301057,etc |
| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 7436 | 472 | 1.800161 | 0301563,0301615,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 4136 | 375 | 1.671283 | 0301419,0301227,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 3175 | 331 | 1.506579 | 0301126,0301569,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 2737 | 295 | 1.591703 | 0301122,0301218,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 584 | 277 | 1.054436 | 0301122,0301187,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 2818 | 276 | 1.712472 | 0301293,0301655,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 3329 | 274 | 1.396853 | 0301342,0301380,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 9201 | 232 | 1.89598 | 0301644,0301342,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 3698 | 225 | 1.492058 | 0301532,0301380,etc |
| supernova | SN | 11525 | 215 | 1.861478 | 0301644,0301236,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 4316 | 210 | 1.636832 | 0301527,0301185,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 2685 | 158 | 1.319597 | 0301569,0301419,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 1278 | 157 | 1.567942 | 0301187,0301157,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 2410 | 152 | 1.489159 | 0301635,0301293,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 3713 | 147 | 1.318 | 0301514,0301205,etc |
| near infrared | NIR | 1733 | 128 | 1.775185 | 0301300,0301616,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 1611 | 127 | 1.576636 | 0301282,0301443,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 3080 | 124 | 1.633231 | 0301187,0301550,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | SNR | 717 | 124 | 1.283187 | 0301227,0301480,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 1443 | 113 | 1.745017 | 0301532,0301001,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 927 | 106 | 1.661748 | 0301206,0301377,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 1698 | 105 | 1.783072 | 0301569,0301380,etc |
| black hole | BH | 3811 | 105 | 2.006664 | 0301526,0301478,etc |
| wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe | WMAP | 1528 | 103 | 1.633905 | 0302496,0302505,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 1322 | 101 | 1.398629 | 0301245,0301127,etc |
| max planck institute for astronomy | MPIA | 103 | 100 | 1.000132 | 0301527,0301019,etc |
| max planck institute for astrophysics | MPA | 102 | 100 | 1.000133 | 0301527,0301019,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 1874 | 99 | 1.568867 | 0301419,0301550,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 1456 | 98 | 1.665872 | 0301459,0301468,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 1547 | 97 | 1.673947 | 0301532,0301489,etc |
| field of view | FOV | 555 | 96 | 1.490661 | 0301523,0301245,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 131 | 95 | 1.126553 | 0301527,0301019,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 440 | 93 | 1.312516 | 0301016,0301396,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 2144 | 92 | 1.721756 | 0301245,0301161,etc |
| white dwarf | WD | 3287 | 91 | 1.577493 | 0301380,0301415,etc |
| cataclysmic variable | CV | 1290 | 90 | 1.580848 | 0301168,0301409,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 2169 | 89 | 1.724858 | 0301129,0301204,etc |
| infrared | IR | 3365 | 86 | 1.575246 | 0301479,0301511,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 2058 | 85 | 1.568939 | 0301531,0301551,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 5727 | 83 | 1.889112 | 0301122,0301244,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 875 | 82 | 1.283395 | 0301227,0301250,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 1109 | 80 | 1.414832 | 0301459,0301525,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 1246 | 79 | 1.71121 | 0301126,0301403,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 836 | 77 | 1.391433 | 0301300,0301591,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 1434 | 77 | 1.638539 | 0301380,0301415,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 1184 | 76 | 1.685959 | 0301060,0301462,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | KS | 393 | 75 | 1.227578 | 0301227,0301388,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 1134 | 74 | 1.867644 | 0301071,0301161,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 1890 | 73 | 1.60718 | 0301419,0301550,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 364 | 73 | 1.219818 | 0301029,0301048,etc |
| space telescope imaging spectrograph | STIS | 975 | 73 | 1.659691 | 0301396,0301248,etc |
| proportional counter array | PCA | 583 | 71 | 1.635022 | 0301090,0301208,etc |
| lyman break galaxy | LBG | 1795 | 71 | 1.819787 | 0301121,0301097,etc |
| quasi periodic oscillation | QPO | 1369 | 68 | 1.445486 | 0301168,0301161,etc |
| young stellar object | YSO | 761 | 68 | 1.354551 | 0301429,0301445,etc |
| two micron all sky survey | 2MASS | 924 | 68 | 1.192919 | 0301227,0301275,etc |
| very large telescope | VLT | 296 | 68 | 1.177244 | 0301480,0301149,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 339 | 60 | 1.534389 | 0301227,0301108,etc |
| position angle | PA | 713 | 58 | 1.485322 | 0301177,0301144,etc |
| pre main sequence | PMS | 982 | 58 | 1.794913 | 0301254,0301478,etc |
| advanced ccd imaging spectrometer | ACIS | 467 | 56 | 1.197685 | 0301040,0301475,etc |
| cosmic ray | CR | 1940 | 56 | 1.272598 | 0301187,0301625,etc |
| large scale structure | LSS | 338 | 54 | 1.575515 | 0301527,0301562,etc |
| advanced camera for surveys | ACS | 505 | 54 | 1.557032 | 0301346,0301135,etc |
| broad absorption line | BAL | 1943 | 53 | 1.498667 | 0301040,0301019,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 567 | 52 | 1.597797 | 0301479,0301205,etc |
| intra cluster medium | ICM | 873 | 51 | 1.590152 | 0301447,0301352,etc |
| probability distribution function | PDF | 855 | 51 | 1.570912 | 0301093,0301186,etc |
| big bang nucleosynthesis | BBN | 847 | 51 | 1.513344 | 0301490,0301392,etc |
| extremely red object | ERO | 1436 | 51 | 1.476063 | 0301248,0301149,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 867 | 51 | 1.491968 | 0302304,0302568,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 974 | 48 | 1.628052 | 0302163,0302480,etc |
| advection dominated accretion flow | ADAF | 418 | 46 | 1.436124 | 0301113,0301142,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 854 | 45 | 1.604456 | 0301299,0301287,etc |
| adaptive optics | AO | 511 | 45 | 1.646335 | 0301095,0301311,etc |
| supermassive black hole | SMBH | 1007 | 44 | 1.549013 | 0301231,0301365,etc |
| synchrotron self compton | SSC | 304 | 44 | 1.569587 | 0301431,0301333,etc |
| local thermodynamic equilibrium | LTE | 651 | 43 | 1.770666 | 0301124,0301161,etc |
| polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon | PAH | 900 | 43 | 1.584476 | 0301429,0301488,etc |
| cosmic microwave background radiation | CMBR | 449 | 42 | 1.263429 | 0301431,0301164,etc |
| local standard of rest | LSR | 177 | 42 | 1.286313 | 0301580,0301513,etc |
| european photon imaging camera | EPIC | 323 | 42 | 1.525237 | 0301040,0301123,etc |
| zero age main sequence | ZAMS | 154 | 42 | 1.09555 | 0301296,0301587,etc |
| james clerk maxwell telescope | JCMT | 312 | 41 | 1.293423 | 0301126,0301610,etc |
| star formation | SF | 859 | 41 | 1.833332 | 0301388,0301616,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 423 | 41 | 1.049952 | 0301227,0301555,etc |
| new technology telescope | NTT | 145 | 40 | 1.150477 | 0301473,0301298,etc |
| colour magnitude diagram | CMD | 523 | 40 | 1.451703 | 0301529,0301219,etc |
| ultraluminous infrared galaxy | ULIRG | 760 | 40 | 1.678617 | 0301040,0301427,etc |
| anomalous x ray pulsar | AXP | 715 | 40 | 1.854336 | 0301161,0301092,etc |
| singular isothermal sphere | SIS | 303 | 40 | 1.226144 | 0302471,0302547,etc |
| early data release | EDR | 258 | 39 | 1.308472 | 0301185,0301464,etc |
| giant molecular cloud | GMC | 498 | 38 | 1.317006 | 0301126,0301060,etc |
| rossi x ray timing explorer | RXTE | 323 | 38 | 1.711957 | 0301544,0301130,etc |
| sunyaev zel'dovich | SZ | 1060 | 38 | 1.71467 | 0301220,0301416,etc |
| x ray background | XRB | 316 | 38 | 1.238647 | 0301040,0301610,etc |
| wide field camera | WFC | 146 | 38 | 1.342836 | 0302205,0302402,etc |
| milky way | MW | 290 | 37 | 1.595946 | 0302157,0302011,etc |
| astronomical image processing system | AIPS | 96 | 36 | 1.000309 | 0301206,0301413,etc |