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Table F.1
Symbols and acronyms.
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACF | Autocorrelation Function |
| ADU | Analogue-to-Digital Units |
| AOCS | Attitude and Orbital Control System |
| CCD | Charged-Coupled Device |
| CHEOPS | Characterising ExOPlanet Satellite |
| CTI | Charge Transfer Inefficiency |
| DRP | Data Reduction Pipeline |
| DRT | Data Reduction Tool |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ETC | Exposure Time Calculator |
| FEE | Front End Electronics |
| FoV | Field of View |
| G | Gaia G magnitude |
| HK | Housekeeping |
| IFSW | In-Flight software |
| IOC | In-Orbit Commissioning |
| LEO | Low-Earth Orbit |
| LoS | Line of Sight |
| LTAN | Local Time of the Ascending Node |
| M&C | Monitoring and Characterisation Programme |
| MOC | Mission Operation Centre |
| NOPITL | NO Payload In The Loop |
| OBT | Onboard Time |
| OTA | Optical Telescope Assembly |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PF | Platform |
| PID | Proportional Integral Derivative |
| PITL | Payload In The Loop |
| PIPE | PSF Imagette Photometric Extraction |
| ppm | parts-per-million |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| PST | Point Source Transmission function |
| px | pixel |
| QE | Quantum Efficiency |
| r | Radius |
| Rstar | Radius of the star |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| RTS | Random Telegraphic Signal |
| SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly |
| SC | Spacecraft |
| SciReq. | Science Requirement |
| SEM | Sensor Electronic Module |
| SOC | Science Operation Centre |
| Teff | Stellar Effective Temperature |
| texp | Exposure time |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| V | Visual magnitude |
| VOD | Output transistor Drain Voltage |
| VOG | Output Gate Voltage |
| VRD | Reset transistor Drain Voltage |
| VSS | Substrate Voltage |
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