A. Acronyms

Acronyms often used in the Suzaku project are summarized with their full-names and related items.

Acronym    Full Name                                                    Related Item




ADF 		 Astrophysics Data Facility 		 GSFC 


AE 		 Analogue Electronics 


AO 		 Announcement of Opportunities


APID 		 Application Process ID 




BGO 		 Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$ HXD 




CALDB 		 Calibration Database 


CCSDS   		Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems		


CTI 		 Charge Transfer Inefficiency 		 XIS, ASCA SIS 




DE 		Digital Electronics		


DP 		 Data Processor 




ESA 		 European Space Agency 




FTP 		File Transfer Protocol 


FITS 		Flexible Image Transport System 


FFF 		 First FITS files 


FOV 		 Field of View 




GHF 		 Gain History File


GO(s) 		 Guest Observer(s)


GOF 		 Guest Observers Facility 


GSFC 		 Goddard Space Flight Center


GSO 		 Gd$_2$SiO$_5$ HXD 


GTI 		 Good Time Intervals 


GUI 		 Graphic User Interface 




HEASARC 		High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive 		 GSFC 


Research Center 


HPD     		Half Power Diameter 


HK 		 Housekeeping 


HTML 		 Hyper Text Makeup Language 


HTTP 		Hyper Text Transfer Protocol


HXD 		 Hard X-ray Detector




IOC 		 In Orbit Check-out 


ISAS 		 Institute of Space and Astronautical Science 




JAXA   		Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency










NASA    		National Aeronautics  and Space Administration


NRA 		 NASA Research Announcement 




OGIP 		Office of General Investigator Programs 




PGP 		 Pretty Good Privacy 


PSF 		 Point Spread Function 


PHA 		 Pulse Height Analyzer 


PI 		 Pulse Invariance 


PI 		 Principle Investigator 


PIN 		 Positive Intrinsic Negative 


PIMMS 		 Portable, Interactive, Multi-Mission Simulator


PPU 		 Pixel Processing Unit 


PSD 		Pulse Shape Discriminator 		 HXD 




RDD 		 Residuals of Dark Distribution 		  ASCA SIS


RIKEN		 Japanese acronym for 


Institute of Physics and Chemical Research 


ROM 		 Read Only Memory 


RPS 		 Remote Proposal Submission system


RPT 		 Raw Packet Telemetry 




SI 		 Scientific Instruments


SIB 		 Satellite Information Base 


SWG 		 Science Working Group 




TAKO 		 Timeline Assembler, Keyword Oriented 		 Suzaku  planning 


TBD 		 To Be Determined


TI 		 Time Counter 


TOO 		 Target Of Opportunities 




USC     		 Uchinoura Space Center 






WAM 		Wide-band All-sky Monitor 		 HXD 


WCS     		  World Coordinate System 


WWW 		 World Wide Web 




XIS 		 X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer 


XRS 		 X-Ray Spectrometer 


XRT 		       X-Ray Telescope