{"id":226,"date":"2009-10-25T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com.br\/dimensional\/2009\/10\/eu_o_nomeio_sauron\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:42:17","slug":"eu_o_nomeio_sauron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/2009\/10\/25\/eu_o_nomeio_sauron\/","title":{"rendered":"Eu o nomeio SAURON?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Semana passada, foi publicado na SymmetryBreaking<\/a> um texto sobre uma pe\u00e7a do futuro telesc\u00f3pio HETDEX (Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment) – que investigar\u00e1 a, at\u00e9 agora hipot\u00e9tica, Energia Escura – chamada VIRUS (Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph) que incluiu o divertido trecho abaixo sobre os estranhos acr\u00f4nimos usados por astr\u00f4nomos\/astrof\u00edsicos. Mantenho em ingl\u00eas para n\u00e3o acabar com as piadinhas, pe\u00e7o perd\u00e3o \u00e0queles n\u00e3o versados na l\u00edngua dos porcos imperialistas.<\/p>\n

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Reporters at the recent American Astronomical Society
\nmeeting in Atlanta needed SMARTS to interpret the witty acronyms
\ninvented by astronomers for their pet projects. A FIRST look at the
\nabstract volume turned up some DIRT and some real GEMS, so one writer
\nwent on a QUEST for the best-or worst-creations.<\/p>\n

The DEEP search exposed some clever IDEAS, from trees (ASPENS) to
\ndesert (MOJAVE), and from ocean (SCUBA) to movie EPICs (SAURON). Some
\nscientists couldn’t quite spell (KASCADE), making one wonder whether
\nthey were on LSD. (At the very least, they were all WET.)<\/p>\n

The ARCADE-like poster room was a veritable hall of BEASTs. One
\ncould GLIMPSE CANGAROOs, EGRETs, FLAMINGOS, GNATs, and even OGLE a fine
\nBASS. A few astronomers, burdened by strained acronyms, stood at their
\nposters with MACHO GLAREs. Others smiled to some internal MUSYC,
\nconfident in the DESTINY of their proposals.<\/p>\n

When it came down to the WIRE, the writer blew a FUSE trying to pick
\nthe one acronym that really SINGS. For a COMPLETE list, SEGUE to this
\nweb page*. If that’s too much to ask, don’t shoot the MESSENGER.<\/p>\n

* Editor’s note: This link doesn’t exist as the piece was never published, but it would have linked to the text below.<\/em><\/p>\n

SMARTS: Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System<\/p>\n

FIRST: Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters<\/p>\n

DIRT: Dust InfraRed Toolbox<\/p>\n

GEMS: Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions<\/p>\n

QUEST: QUasar Equatorial Survey Team<\/p>\n

DEEP: Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe<\/p>\n

IDEAS: Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space science<\/p>\n

ASPENS: Astrometric Search for Planets Encircling Nearby Stars<\/p>\n

MOJAVE: Monitoring Of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments<\/p>\n

SCUBA: Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array<\/p>\n

EPIC: European Photon Imaging Cameras<\/p>\n

SAURON: Spectroscopic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae<\/b><\/p>\n

KASCADE: KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector<\/p>\n

LSD: Lenses Structure and Dynamics<\/p>\n

WET: Whole Earth Telescope<\/p>\n

ARCADE: Absolute Radiometer for Cosmic And Diffuse Emission<\/p>\n

BEAST: Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope<\/p>\n

GLIMPSE: Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire<\/p>\n

CANGAROO: Collaboration of Australia and Nippon for a GAmma Ray Observatory in the Outback<\/p>\n

EGRET: Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope<\/p>\n

FLAMINGOS: FLoridA Multi-object Imaging Near-infrared Grism Observational Spectrometer<\/p>\n

GNAT: Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes<\/p>\n

OGLE: Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment<\/p>\n

BASS: Broadband Array Spectrograph System<\/p>\n

MACHO: MAssive Compact Halo Object<\/p>\n

GLARE: Gemini Lyman-Alpha at Reionization Era<\/p>\n

MUSYC: MUltiwavelength Survey by Yale and Chile<\/p>\n

DESTINY: Dark Energy Space Telescope (hey, what about INY?)<\/p>\n

WIRE: Wide-field InfraRed Explorer<\/p>\n

FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer<\/p>\n

SINGS: SIRTF (now Spitzer) Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey<\/p>\n

COMPLETE: COordinated Molecular Probe Line Extinction Thermal Emission survey<\/p>\n

SEGUE: Sloan Extension for Galactic Underpinnings and Evolution<\/p>\n

MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

O acr\u00f4nimo escolhido para o Monitor de Radia\u00e7\u00e3o Atmosf\u00e9rica – MonRAt<\/b> -, um projeto de experimento brasileiro com a finalidade de detectar a radia\u00e7\u00e3o de fluorec\u00eancia produzida na passagem de raios c\u00f3smicos de altas energias pela atmosfera, pode n\u00e3o causar muita estranheza, mas os leitores que eram crian\u00e7as na d\u00e9cada de 80 com certeza esbo\u00e7aram um sorriso. Vai dizer que n\u00e3o? =P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semana passada, foi publicado na SymmetryBreaking um texto sobre uma pe\u00e7a do futuro telesc\u00f3pio HETDEX (Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment) – que investigar\u00e1 a, at\u00e9 agora hipot\u00e9tica, Energia Escura – chamada VIRUS (Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph) que incluiu o divertido trecho abaixo sobre os estranhos acr\u00f4nimos usados por astr\u00f4nomos\/astrof\u00edsicos. Mantenho em ingl\u00eas para n\u00e3o […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomia","category-fisica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/dimensional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}