List of Acronyms

4SLSLS

4MOST Strong Lensing Spectroscopic Legacy Survey

AFS

Additional Funding Stream

AGN

Active Galactic Nucleus

AuxTel

Auxiliary Telescope

BNS

Binary Neutron Star

CC-IN2P3

Computing Centre of IN2P3

CCD

Charge-coupled device

CCL

Core cosmology library

CCS

Camera Control System

CDM

Cold Dark Matter

CEC

Contribution Evaluation Committee

CET

Community Engagement Team

CI

Continuous Integration

CMB

Cosmic Microwave Background

CO

Communications Officer

ComCam

Commissioning Camera

CST

Community Science Team (was Community Engagement Team)

CTA

Cerenkov Telescope Array

CVT

Camera Visualisation Tool

DAC

Data Access Center

DC2

(DESC) Data Challenge 2

DESC

Dark Energy Science Collaboration

DESI

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DEV

Development

DF

Data Facility

DM

Data Management

DMTN

Data Management TechNote

DOE

Department of Energy

DP

Data Preview

DR

Data Release

DRA

Data Rights Agreement

DRP

Data Release Processing

ECR

Early Career Researcher

EDI

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

ELT

Extremely Large Telescope

EPO

Education and Public Outreach

GC

Galaxy Clustering

GSC

Galaxies Science Collaboration

HOS

Higher-order statistics

HPC

High Performance Computing

HSC

HyperSuprimeCam

IAP

International Affiliate Partner

IDAC

Independent Data Analysis Center

IKC

In-kind Contribution

IN2P3

Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules

INSU

Institut national des sciences de l'Univers

IPC

In-kind Program Coordination

ISM

Interstellar Medium

JWST

James Webb Space Telescope

LCDM

Lambda Cold Dark Matter

LHC

Large Hadron Collider

LIneA

Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia

LSB

Low Surface Brightness

LSS

Large Scale Structure

LSST

Legacy Survey of Space and Time

LTP

Long-Term Plan

LUSC

LSST:UK Science Centre

ML

Machine Learning

MoA

Memorandum of Agreement

MS

Milestone

NSF

National Science Foundation

OsC

Oversight Committee

PanDA

Production and Distributed Analysis

PAR

Project Assurance Report

PDF

Probability Distribution Function

PDG

Project Delivery Group

PL

Project Leader

PM

Project Manager or Project Month

PPRP

Projects Peer Review Panel

PS

Project Scientist

PZ

Photometric redshift

RAIL

Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layer

RAL

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

RG

Recipient Group

ROP

Rubin Operations Plan

RSAP

(IRIS) Resource Scrunity and Allocation Process

RSE

Research Software Engineer

RSP

Rubin Science Platform

SAWG

(DESC) Systemics Analysis Working Group

SC

Science Collaboration

SDSS

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SED

Spectral Energy Distribution

SI

Source Injection

SIT-Com

Systems Integration, Test and Commissioning

SKA

Square Kilometre Array

SL

Strong Lensing

SLSC

Strong Lensing Science Collaboration

SMWLV

Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume Science Collaboration

SNR

Signal-to-noise ratio

SQuaRE

Science Quality and Reliability Engineering

SRD

Science Requirements Document

SSI

Software Sustainability Institute

SXDS

Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey

TAP

Table Access Protocol

TCAD

Technology Computer Aided Design

TiDES

Time Domain Extragalactic Survey

TVS

Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration

V&V

Verification and Validation

WA

Working Allowance

WISE

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

WL

Weak Lensing

WP

Work Packages

ZTF

Zwicky Transient Facility