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Table A.1

Acronyms and abbreviations used throughout the text.

Acronym Meaning
ACA Atacama Compact Array (Morita Array)
ACT Atacama Cosmology Telescope
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array
APEX Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment
ARS azimuthal rotating structure
AtLAST Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope
AZ azimuth
BUS back-up structure
CAD computer-aided design
CFRP carbon fiber reinforced plastics
CHAI CCAT Heterodyne Array Instrument
CIB cosmic infrared background
CL closed-loop (dynamic state space model)
CMB cosmic microwave background
CMB-S4 Stage IV CMB experiment
CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
DESHIMA DEep Spectroscopic HIgh-redshift MApper
DOF degree of freedom
EL elevation
ELT Extremely Large Telescope
ERS elevation rotating structure
ESO European Southern Observatory
EXCLAIM EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping
FBC flexible body compensation
FEA finite element analysis
FEM finite element model
FoM figure of merit
FoV field of view
FS focal surface (i.e., curved focal plane)
FWHM full width at half maximum
FYST Fred Young Submm Telescope (CCAT observatory)
GBT Green Bank Telescope
GMT Giant Magellan Telescope
GRASP General Reflector Antenna Software Package
HVAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
HWFE half wavefront error
INAF Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRAM Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique
JCMT James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
LBT Large Binocular Telescope
LMT/GTM 50-meter Large Millimeter Telescope/Gran Telescopio Millimetrico Alfonso Serrano
LOS line of sight
LUT Look-up table
M1 primary mirror
M2 secondary mirror
M3 tertiary mirror
ngEHT next generation Event Horizon Telescope
ngVLA next generation Very Large Array
NOEMA Northern Extended Millimeter Array
PWV precipitable water vapor
RMS root mean square
SEST Swedish-ESO Submillimeter Telescope
SKA Square Kilometer Array
SO Simons Observatory
SPEM static pointing error (correction) model
SRT Sardinia Radio Telescope
SZ Sunyaev-Zeldovich (effect)
TMA Three Mirror Anastigmatic design
TRL technology readiness level
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLT Very Large Telescope

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