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Table D.1.

List of the acronyms we used in this paper.

Acronym Description
AC ACross scan (direction)
AF Astrometric field (in Astro)
AGIS Astrometric global iterative solution
AL ALong scan (direction)
API Application programming interface
BP Blue photometer
CCD Charge-coupled device
DPAC Data processing and analysis consortium
DR1 (Gaia) data release 1
DR2 (Gaia) data release 2
DR3 (Gaia) data release 3
EPSL Ecliptic Pole scanning law
FoV Field of view
FWHM Full width at half-maximum
GP Galactic plane
GPS Galactic-plane scan
HDFS Hadoop distributed file system
IDT Initial data treatment
IDU Intermediate data update
IPD Image parameter determination
LS Large scale
LSF Line spread function
LSQ Least squares
MAD Median absolute deviation (from the median)
OBMT On-board mission timeline
PSF Point-spread function
RP Red photometer
SM Sky mapper
SS Small scale
SSC Spectrum shape coefficient
SPSS Spectro-photometric standard star
TCB Barycentric coordinate time
TDI Time-delayed integration (CCD)
TGAS Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution
UTC Coordinated universal time
VO Virtual object
VPU Video processing unit

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