DKIST Glossary

BE2E

Boulder End-to-End Simulator

Co-I

Co-Investigator

Cryo-NIRSP

Cryogenic Near-IR Spectro-Polarimeter

CSP

Critical Science Plan

DC

Data Center

DL-NIRSP

Diffraction Limited Near Infrared Spectropolarimeter

DKIST

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (formerly the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, ATST) 

EA

Experiment Architect

FIDO

Facility Instrument Distribution Optics

FOV

Field of View

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAO

High Altitude Observatory

HD

Help Desk

IDL

Interactive Data Language (software)

IfA

Institute for Astronomy (University of Hawai'i)

IPC

Instrument Performance Calculator

Jira/JIRA

Atlassian bug tracking software system

Jira (SD)

Atlassian Jira Service Desk (Help Desk bug tracking software system)

KIS

Leibniz Institut für Sonnenphysik (formerly Kiepenheuer Institut für Sonnenphysik)

M1 → Mx

Mirror 1 (Primary), Mirror 2 (Secondary), etc.

NSO

National Solar Observatory

OCM

Operations Commissioning Module

OCM1

Operations Commissioning Module 1 (Preparation and Submission of Proposals)

OCM2

Operations Commissioning Module 2 (Proposal Review)

OCM3

Operations Commissioning Module 3 (Experiment Generation and Quality Assurance)

OCM4

Operations Commissioning Module 4 (Experiment Planning, Execution and Completion)

OCP

Operations Commissioning Phase

OPMT

Operations Planning and Monitoring Tool

PA

Proposal Architect

PAT

Proposal Architect Tool

PC

Proposal Call

PI

Principal Investigator

PII

Personally Identifiable Information

QA

Quality Assurance

RS

Resident Scientist

SciOps

Science Operations Staff

SD

Atlassian Jira Service Desk, Help Desk bug tracking software system

SOS

Science Operations Specialists (a.k.a. Operators)

SRC

Science Review Committee

TAC

Time Allocation Committee

TechOps

Technical Operations

TRC

Technical Review Committee

UH

University of Hawai'i

VBI

Visible Broadband Imager

ViSP

Visible Spectro-Polarimeter

VTF

Visible Tunable Filter

WG

Working Group