Table A.1.
List of acronyms used in this paper.
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| 2MASS | Two-Micron All Sky Survey |
| AAVSO | American Association of Variable Star Observers |
| APASS | AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey |
| BCRS | Barycentric Celestial Reference System |
| BP | Blue Photometer |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| DPAC | Data Processing and Analysis Consortium |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| GBOT | Ground-Based Optical Tracking |
| GSC | Guide Star Catalog |
| ICRF | International Celestial Reference Frame |
| JD | Julian Date |
| LMC | Large Magellanic Cloud |
| OBMT | On-Board Mission Timeline |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| PPMXL | Position and Proper Motion Extended-L Catalog |
| QSO | Quasi-Stellar Object |
| RMS | Root-Mean-Square |
| RP | Red Photometer |
| RVS | Radial Velocity Spectrometer |
| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| SMC | Small Magellanic Cloud (special, high-density area on the sky) |
| SOS | Specific Object Studies |
| SSO | Solar-System Object |
| TCB | Barycentric Coordinate Time |
| TGAS | Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution |
| UCAC | USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog |
| URAT | USNO Robotic Astrometric Telescope |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
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