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Table E.1
List of acronyms.
| Acronym | Description |
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| AC | ACross scan direction (Fig. 3) |
| ACF | ACross scan coordinate in the Following FoV |
| ACP | ACross scan coordinate in the Preceding FoV |
| AF | Astrometric Field |
| AGIS | Astrometric Global Iterative Solution |
| AGN | Active Galactic Nucleus |
| AL | ALong scan direction (Fig. 3) |
| ASI | Accelerated Simple Iteration |
| BAM | Basic-Angle Monitor (Fig. 3) |
| BCRS | Barycentric Celestial Reference System |
| BP | Blue Photometer (Fig. 3) |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| CDM | Charge Distortion Model |
| CFS | Calibration Faint Star |
| CG | Conjugate Gradient |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CoMRS | Centre of Mass Reference System |
| CTE | Charge Transfer Efficiency (of a CCD) |
| CTI | Charge Transfer Inefficiency (of a CCD) |
| CU2 | DPAC Coordination Unit 2, “Data Simulations” |
| CU3 | DPAC Coordination Unit 3, “Core Processing” |
| DPAC | Data Processing and Analysis Consortium |
| EADS | European Aeronautic Defence and Space company |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESAC | European Space Astronomy Centre |
| FFoV | Following Field of View (Fig. 2) |
| FPA | Focal Plane Assembly (Fig. 3) |
| FoV | Field of View |
| GCRS | Geocentric Celestial Reference System |
| HEALPix | Hierarchical Equal-Area iso-Latitude Pixelisation |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| ICRS | International Celestial Reference System |
| LSF | Line Spread Function |
| NSL | Nominal Scanning Law |
| PFoV | Preceding Field of View (Fig. 2) |
| PPN | Parametrised Post-Newtonian (relativity formalism) |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| rms | Root-Mean-Square |
| RP | Red Photometer |
| RSE | Robust Scatter Estimate (footnote 18) |
| RVS | Radial Velocity Spectrometer (Fig. 3) |
| SI | Simple Iteration |
| SM | Sky Mapper |
| SRS | Scanning Reference System (Fig. 2) |
| SVD | Singular Value Decomposition |
| TB | TeraByte |
| TCB | Barycentric Coordinate Time |
| TDI | Time-Delayed Integration (CCD operation mode) |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| WFS | WaveFront Sensor (Fig. 3) |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
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