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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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