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Acronym List

2SB: Two sideband (receiver)
ACA: Atacama Compact Array
ALMA: Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
APDM: ALMA Project Data Model
ASA: ALMA Science Archive
ASDM: ALMA Science Data Model
ARC: ALMA Regional Centre
ASC: ALMA Sensitivity Calculator
BBC: Baseband Converter
DDT: Director's Discretionary Time
DSB: Double Sideband (receiver)
EB: Execution Block
FOV: Field Of View
GOUS: Group Observing Unit Set
LAS: Largest Angular Scale
LO: Local Oscillator
LSB: Lower Side Band
MOUS: Member Observing Unit Set
MRS: Maximum Recoverable Scale
OG: Observing Group
OT: Observing Tool
OTF: On The Fly
OUS: Observing Unit Set
PI: Principal Investigator
PWV: Precipitable Water Vapour
QA2: Quality Assurance (second level thereof)
SACA: Stand-alone ACA
SB: Scheduling Block
SG: Science Goal
SSB: Single Sideband (receiver)
SFI: Single Field Interferometry
SLP: Spectral Line Picker
SPW: Spectral Window
TFB: Tunable Filter Bank
TP: Total Power
USB: Upper Side Band

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The ALMA OT Team, 2018 Sep 25