List of Acronyms

List of acronyms used in the calibration Web pages and throughout the ACS Web site :

ABA : Aberrated Beam Analyzer

ACC : Advanced Computer Concepts

ACS : The Advanced Camera for Surveys

ASIPE : Axial Science Instrument Protective Enclosure

BATC : Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation

BIA : Ball Image Analyzer

CCD : Charge Coupled Device

CDS : Calibration Delivery System

CEI : Component End Item

COSTAR : Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

CTE : Charge Transfer Efficiency

DGEF : Diffraction Grating Evaluation Facility

D₂ or D2 : Internal deuterium lamp

EE : Encircled Energy

EMI : Electro-Magnetic Interference

EPER : Extended Pixel Edge Response

ESD : Electo-Static Discharge

EVA : Extra Vehicular Activity

FF : Flat Field

FIRM : Facility for Index of Refraction Measurements

FOV : Field-of-View

FSW : Flight Software

GC : Ground Calibration

GSFC : Goddard Space Flight Center

HRC : High Resolution Channel (or Camera)

HeNe : Helium Neon

HOMS : Hubble Optical Mechanical Simulator

IB : In-Band

MAMA : Multi-Anode Microchannel Array

NCC : NICMOS Cryo-Cooler

NCS : NICMOS Cooling System

OBASS : Optical Bench Alignment Support Structure

OOB : Out-of-Band

RAMP : RAS/Cal Multi-Point Alignment Tool

RAS/Cal : Reflective Aberrated Simulator for Calibration

RAS/HOMS : Refractive Aberrated Simulator/Hubble Opto-Mechanical Simulator

RVS : Requirements Verification Specification

SBC : Solar Blind Channel (or Camera)

SER : System Engineering Report

SSDIF : Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility

STUFF : Stimulus for Ultraviolet Flat Fields

T : Temperature

T1, T2 : Internal tungsten lamps 1 and 2 for WFC

T3, T4 : Internal tungsten lamps 3 and 4 for HRC

TBF : Thermal Balance Fixture

TUT : Filter Transmittance Uniformity Tester

TV : Thermal vacuum

WFC : Wide Field Channel (or Camera)

WOMBAT : Wildly and Openly Modified Broadband Achromatic Twyman Green Interferometer