| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 11038 | 546 | 1.559923 | 0401133,0401320,etc |
| spectral energy distribution | SED | 4680 | 446 | 1.773304 | 0401344,0401479,etc |
| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 6403 | 418 | 1.478991 | 0401565,0401622,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 3285 | 337 | 1.530061 | 0401601,0401560,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 3079 | 330 | 1.332415 | 0401299,0401619,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 4465 | 292 | 1.722496 | 0401098,0401441,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 3344 | 272 | 1.481586 | 0401052,0401197,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 507 | 268 | 1.000243 | 0401289,0401641,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 8760 | 235 | 1.764794 | 0401272,0401180,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 3782 | 229 | 1.308991 | 0401394,0401051,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 2043 | 228 | 1.489256 | 0401547,0401097,etc |
| supernova | SN | 8178 | 193 | 2.009168 | 0401394,0401232,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 1142 | 159 | 1.567509 | 0401051,0401570,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 1524 | 156 | 1.470423 | 0401394,0401133,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | S/N | 889 | 152 | 1.231103 | 0401619,0401234,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 2354 | 151 | 1.552113 | 0401298,0401439,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 1783 | 147 | 1.689106 | 0401051,0401234,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 727 | 139 | 1.26704 | 0401217,0401514,etc |
| near infrared | near-IR | 1469 | 139 | 1.556188 | 0401441,0401638,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 3025 | 136 | 1.570066 | 0401133,0401619,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 2298 | 136 | 1.42922 | 0401479,0401135,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 3352 | 124 | 1.650146 | 0401299,0401348,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 2671 | 122 | 1.676788 | 0401619,0401146,etc |
| infrared | IR | 4176 | 119 | 1.779092 | 0401197,0401495,etc |
| black hole | BH | 3660 | 115 | 1.570901 | 0401191,0401046,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXRB | 1060 | 112 | 1.618681 | 0401299,0401465,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 1397 | 110 | 1.883904 | 0401197,0401144,etc |
| field of view | FOV | 480 | 110 | 1.082857 | 0401340,0401219,etc |
| white dwarf | WD | 2517 | 108 | 1.663849 | 0401299,0401145,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 1675 | 107 | 1.685118 | 0401178,0401478,etc |
| max planck institute for astronomy | MPIA | 107 | 107 | 1.000121 | 0401098,0401249,etc |
| max planck institute for astrophysics | MPA | 126 | 107 | 1.000147 | 0401098,0401249,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 130 | 106 | 1.00018 | 0401098,0401249,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 2205 | 104 | 1.706512 | 0401098,0401197,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 2072 | 103 | 1.673597 | 0401144,0401153,etc |
| wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe | WMAP | 1041 | 102 | 1.560912 | 0401269,0401341,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 2052 | 100 | 1.733908 | 0401394,0401635,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 1423 | 99 | 1.387475 | 0401465,0401080,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 3187 | 95 | 1.880801 | 0401326,0401056,etc |
| cataclysmic variable | CV | 1614 | 92 | 1.603447 | 0401145,0401176,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 5341 | 92 | 1.90975 | 0401299,0401619,etc |
| two micron all sky survey | 2MASS | 837 | 92 | 1.490958 | 0401197,0401514,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 1727 | 91 | 1.883466 | 0401127,0401245,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 1939 | 90 | 1.837524 | 0401088,0401126,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 1259 | 88 | 1.593089 | 0401531,0401630,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 1121 | 83 | 1.242674 | 0401122,0401523,etc |
| advanced camera for surveys | ACS | 886 | 82 | 1.733148 | 0401570,0401483,etc |
| young stellar object | YSO | 1062 | 82 | 1.526172 | 0402423,0402120,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | K-S | 312 | 76 | 1.184764 | 0401619,0401088,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 991 | 76 | 1.620329 | 0401243,0401375,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 413 | 75 | 1.467287 | 0401427,0401263,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 901 | 75 | 1.602102 | 0401168,0401607,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 1634 | 75 | 1.590784 | 0401571,0401135,etc |
| position angle | PA | 836 | 73 | 1.550157 | 0401373,0401255,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 447 | 72 | 1.112259 | 0401135,0401431,etc |
| large scale structure | LSS | 358 | 68 | 1.486307 | 0401133,0401340,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 945 | 68 | 1.678504 | 0401377,0401246,etc |
| pre main sequence | PMS | 935 | 67 | 1.688486 | 0402188,0402614,etc |
| very long baseline interferometry | VLBI | 827 | 66 | 1.729735 | 0402613,0402473,etc |
| polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon | PAH | 1073 | 65 | 1.433894 | 0402078,0402601,etc |
| very large telescope | VLT | 292 | 64 | 1.188074 | 0401500,0401246,etc |
| lyman break galaxy | LBG | 1110 | 64 | 1.331776 | 0401051,0401215,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 1853 | 61 | 1.823514 | 0401052,0401153,etc |
| big bang nucleosynthesis | BBN | 826 | 60 | 1.435394 | 0401547,0401091,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 958 | 60 | 1.702253 | 0401158,0401399,etc |
| high mass x ray binary | HMXRB | 374 | 58 | 1.328686 | 0401394,0401537,etc |
| supermassive black hole | SMBH | 1328 | 58 | 1.745097 | 0401532,0401294,etc |
| low surface brightness | LSB | 791 | 57 | 1.354764 | 0401349,0401364,etc |
| quasi periodic oscillation | QPO | 1170 | 56 | 1.754604 | 0401464,0401484,etc |
| very long baseline array | VLBA | 588 | 55 | 1.401839 | 0401320,0401319,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 596 | 54 | 1.408736 | 0401011,0401232,etc |
| space telescope imaging spectrograph | STIS | 624 | 54 | 1.7791 | 0401469,0401226,etc |
| weakly interacting massive particle | WIMP | 864 | 53 | 1.720548 | 0401547,0401162,etc |
| local thermodynamic equilibrium | LTE | 514 | 51 | 1.276237 | 0401467,0401396,etc |
| colour magnitude diagram | CMD | 738 | 51 | 1.550932 | 0401004,0401418,etc |
| wide field camera | WFC | 270 | 50 | 1.300769 | 0401025,0401374,etc |
| advanced ccd imaging spectrometer | ACIS | 412 | 50 | 1.761127 | 0401592,0401377,etc |
| intra cluster medium | ICM | 668 | 50 | 1.562493 | 0401462,0401576,etc |
| proportional counter array | PCA | 427 | 49 | 1.674622 | 0401465,0401205,etc |
| star formation | SF | 1447 | 49 | 1.881535 | 0401144,0401455,etc |
| synchrotron self compton | SSC | 353 | 49 | 1.490793 | 0401356,0401271,etc |
| european southern observatory | ESO | 265 | 49 | 1.061902 | 0401012,0401564,etc |
| full width half maximum | FWHM | 202 | 48 | 1.396217 | 0401051,0401139,etc |
| extremely red object | ERO | 1138 | 48 | 1.505623 | 0401570,0401215,etc |
| cosmic microwave background radiation | CMBR | 565 | 48 | 1.813875 | 0401523,0401204,etc |
| advection dominated accretion flow | ADAF | 510 | 46 | 1.133037 | 0401460,0401205,etc |
| isaac newton telescope | INT | 215 | 44 | 1.318745 | 0401025,0401374,etc |
| friedmann robertson walker | FRW | 176 | 44 | 1.250602 | 0401293,0401504,etc |
| zero age main sequence | ZAMS | 236 | 44 | 1.43236 | 0401221,0401330,etc |
| high velocity cloud | HVC | 1002 | 43 | 1.515291 | 0401226,0401036,etc |
| william herschel telescope | WHT | 137 | 43 | 1.000345 | 0401569,0401518,etc |
| science analysis system | SAS | 102 | 43 | 1.163017 | 0401299,0401305,etc |
| adaptive optics | AO | 485 | 42 | 1.81121 | 0401560,0401408,etc |
| james clerk maxwell telescope | JCMT | 225 | 42 | 1.52454 | 0401635,0401584,etc |
| milky way | MW | 360 | 42 | 1.144555 | 0402187,0402619,etc |
| astronomical image processing system | AIPS | 100 | 42 | 1.00026 | 0403151,0403578,etc |
| galactic center | GC | 738 | 41 | 1.661254 | 0401589,0401150,etc |
| european photon imaging camera | EPIC | 399 | 39 | 1.51413 | 0401299,0401227,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 318 | 39 | 1.411837 | 0401167,0401264,etc |
| markov chain monte carlo | MCMC | 241 | 39 | 1.411356 | 0402359,0402296,etc |