| spectral energy distribution | SED | 786 | 48 | 2.001723 | 0703447,0703359,etc |
| interstellar medium | ISM | 482 | 43 | 2.002659 | 0703665,0703732,etc |
| point spread function | PSF | 458 | 41 | 1.002937 | 0703167,0703156,etc |
| gamma ray burst | GRB | 1864 | 38 | 2.010474 | 0703665,0703158,etc |
| cosmic microwave background | CMB | 598 | 36 | 1.004445 | 0703586,0703708,etc |
| active galactic nucleus | AGN | 460 | 36 | 2.003136 | 0703598,0703493,etc |
| sloan digital sky survey | SDSS | 551 | 34 | 1.002785 | 0703357,0703373,etc |
| star formation rate | SFR | 402 | 29 | 1.002715 | 0703357,0703493,etc |
| initial mass function | IMF | 716 | 26 | 1.003912 | 0703276,0703122,etc |
| equivalent width | EW | 236 | 23 | 1.002348 | 0703665,0703493,etc |
| cold dark matter | CDM | 155 | 23 | 1.002023 | 0703620,0703466,etc |
| asymptotic giant branch | AGB | 571 | 22 | 1.005528 | 0703732,0703724,etc |
| hubble space telescope | HST | 194 | 22 | 2.002367 | 0703133,0703395,etc |
| signal to noise ratio | S/N | 103 | 20 | 2.000393 | 0703665,0703072,etc |
| supernova | SN | 983 | 20 | 2.009651 | 0703158,0703459,etc |
| intergalactic medium | IGM | 426 | 18 | 2.002437 | 0703771,0703306,etc |
| nasa/ipac extragalactic database | NED | 27 | 18 | 1.000098 | 0703768,0703493,etc |
| very large array | VLA | 111 | 18 | 2.001284 | 0703359,0703214,etc |
| luminosity function | LF | 299 | 16 | 2.002531 | 0703167,0703509,etc |
| equation of state | EOS | 115 | 14 | 1.001981 | 0703290,0703649,etc |
| white dwarf | WD | 193 | 14 | 2.002416 | 0703636,0703339,etc |
| red giant branch | RGB | 355 | 14 | 2.002792 | 0703724,0703167,etc |
| adaptive optics | AO | 318 | 14 | 1.006083 | 0703300,0703093,etc |
| x ray telescope | XRT | 122 | 14 | 2.001185 | 0703447,0703349,etc |
| dark matter | DM | 430 | 14 | 2.004333 | 0703259,0703284,etc |
| large magellanic cloud | LMC | 279 | 14 | 2.003497 | 0703321,0703124,etc |
| ultraviolet | UV | 267 | 13 | 1.005374 | 0703158,0703787,etc |
| polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon | PAH | 219 | 13 | 2.002175 | 0703158,0703072,etc |
| max planck institute for astronomy | MPIA | 13 | 13 | 1.000069 | 0703357,0703309,etc |
| max planck institute for astrophysics | MPA | 14 | 13 | 1.00007 | 0703357,0703309,etc |
| full width at half maximum | FWHM | 49 | 13 | 2.000459 | 0703395,0703093,etc |
| advanced camera for surveys | ACS | 169 | 13 | 2.002634 | 0703359,0703095,etc |
| star formation history | SFH | 53 | 13 | 1.004063 | 0703509,0703698,etc |
| supernova remnant | SNR | 410 | 13 | 2.003803 | 0703321,0703239,etc |
| planetary nebula | PN | 474 | 12 | 2.008039 | 0703732,0703703,etc |
| burst alert telescope | BAT | 90 | 12 | 2.00382 | 0703676,0703144,etc |
| very large telescope | VLT | 60 | 12 | 1.000679 | 0703623,0703153,etc |
| canada france hawaii telescope | CFHT | 76 | 12 | 1.000991 | 0703395,0703559,etc |
| infrared | IR | 276 | 12 | 2.003699 | 0703143,0703787,etc |
| small magellanic cloud | SMC | 132 | 11 | 1.005695 | 0703665,0703480,etc |
| magnetohydrodynamic | MHD | 74 | 10 | 1.000979 | 0703271,0703527,etc |
| main sequence | MS | 223 | 10 | 2.005586 | 0703724,0703426,etc |
| color magnitude diagram | CMD | 118 | 10 | 2.005038 | 0703167,0703284,etc |
| intracluster medium | ICM | 260 | 10 | 1.002615 | 0703494,0703293,etc |
| globular cluster | GC | 1286 | 10 | 2.012995 | 0703247,0703051,etc |
| zero age main sequence | ZAMS | 27 | 9 | 1.000141 | 0703290,0703724,etc |
| horizontal branch | HB | 381 | 9 | 2.005851 | 0703724,0703167,etc |
| two micron all sky survey | 2MASS | 41 | 9 | 1.000922 | 0703133,0703664,etc |
| supermassive black hole | SMBH | 191 | 9 | 2.00181 | 0703794,0703675,etc |
| black hole | BH | 271 | 9 | 2.005011 | 0703433,0703431,etc |
| low mass x ray binary | LMXB | 353 | 9 | 1.007476 | 0703501,0703431,etc |
| markov chain monte carlo | MCMC | 58 | 9 | 1.000881 | 0703445,0703495,etc |
| milky way | MW | 231 | 9 | 1.00256 | 0703284,0703124,etc |
| field of view | FoV | 41 | 9 | 1.000687 | 0703153,0703606,etc |
| far infrared | FIR | 234 | 9 | 2.005825 | 0703213,0703557,etc |
| giant molecular cloud | GMC | 156 | 8 | 1.003184 | 0703607,0703006,etc |
| near infrared | NIR | 75 | 8 | 1.002225 | 0703636,0703382,etc |
| young stellar object | YSO | 32 | 8 | 1.00065 | 0703636,0703276,etc |
| kolmogorov smirnov | K-S | 18 | 8 | 1.000153 | 0703167,0703709,etc |
| infrared space observatory | ISO | 40 | 8 | 1.000521 | 0703072,0703632,etc |
| signal to noise | S/N | 28 | 8 | 1.000431 | 0703156,0703770,etc |
| simple stellar population | SSP | 68 | 8 | 1.002895 | 0703214,0703276,etc |
| position angle | PA | 94 | 8 | 1.001405 | 0703709,0703688,etc |
| smoothed particle hydrodynamics | SPH | 81 | 8 | 2.001077 | 0703232,0703164,etc |
| large scale structure | LSS | 50 | 8 | 2.000862 | 0703277,0703744,etc |
| intermediate mass black hole | IMBH | 109 | 7 | 2.002924 | 0703290,0703598,etc |
| william herschel telescope | WHT | 17 | 7 | 1.00032 | 0703098,0703143,etc |
| weakly interacting massive particle | WIMP | 112 | 7 | 2.003329 | 0703167,0703624,etc |
| wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe | WMAP | 112 | 7 | 2.003221 | 0703708,0703806,etc |
| infrared array camera | IRAC | 93 | 7 | 1.00164 | 0703214,0703500,etc |
| cross correlation function | CCF | 99 | 7 | 1.001567 | 0703284,0703140,etc |
| wolf rayet | WR | 201 | 7 | 2.003661 | 0703699,0703617,etc |
| fast fourier transform | FFT | 62 | 6 | 1.004029 | 0703768,0703071,etc |
| basic calibrated data | BCD | 19 | 6 | 2.000235 | 0703072,0703214,etc |
| intra cluster medium | ICM | 34 | 6 | 1.000732 | 0703156,0703509,etc |
| photon counting | PC | 22 | 6 | 1.000324 | 0703447,0703684,etc |
| brightest cluster galaxy | BCG | 142 | 6 | 2.0027 | 0703395,0703374,etc |
| inverse compton | IC | 117 | 6 | 1.00193 | 0703494,0703359,etc |
| lyman break galaxy | LBG | 66 | 6 | 2.000754 | 0703306,0703509,etc |
| full width half maximum | FWHM | 22 | 6 | 1.000512 | 0703433,0703244,etc |
| advanced ccd imaging spectrometer | ACIS | 21 | 6 | 1.000807 | 0703501,0703369,etc |
| dwarf spheroidal | dSph | 242 | 6 | 2.001499 | 0703284,0703365,etc |
| magneto rotational instability | MRI | 114 | 6 | 2.001435 | 0703593,0703597,etc |
| quasi periodic oscillation | QPO | 282 | 6 | 2.004192 | 0703431,0703170,etc |
| neutron star | NS | 146 | 6 | 2.002763 | 0703431,0703192,etc |
| magnetorotational instability | MRI | 119 | 6 | 2.002767 | 0703572,0703648,etc |
| principal component analysis | PCA | 53 | 6 | 2.001194 | 0703309,0703582,etc |
| integrated sachs wolfe | ISW | 41 | 6 | 1.001597 | 0703050,0703744,etc |
| rosat all sky survey | RASS | 34 | 6 | 1.000682 | 0703394,0703789,etc |
| three dimensional | 3D | 217 | 6 | 1.006252 | 0703671,0703764,etc |
| australia telescope compact array | ATCA | 48 | 6 | 2.000819 | 0703279,0703577,etc |
| united kingdom infrared telescope | UKIRT | 18 | 6 | 1.000643 | 0703453,0703037,etc |
| astrophysical research consortium | ARC | 5 | 5 | 1.000071 | 0703357,0703532,etc |
| monte carlo | MC | 96 | 5 | 2.001048 | 0703708,0703099,etc |
| probability density function | PDF | 12 | 5 | 1.000509 | 0703126,0703306,etc |
| two dimensional | 2D | 72 | 5 | 1.004433 | 0703156,0703366,etc |
| broad line region | BLR | 52 | 5 | 2.002513 | 0703794,0703433,etc |
| kitt peak national observatory | KPNO | 13 | 5 | 1.000484 | 0703214,0703369,etc |
| national science foundation | NSF | 9 | 5 | 1.000114 | 0703374,0703004,etc |
| cerro tololo inter american observatory | CTIO | 13 | 5 | 1.000713 | 0703501,0703664,etc |
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