NIR near-infrared

VISTA Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy

NIRCAM Near-InfraRed Camera

VLT Very Large Telescope

NISP Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer

NLA nonlinear linear alignment

WFC3 Wide Field Camera 3

WHIGS Waterloo-Hawaii-IfA g-band Survey

Pan-STARRS Panchromatic Survey Telescope and Rapid

WISHES Wide Imaging with Subaru-Hyper Suprime-Cam

Response

Euclid Sky

System

WL weak lensing

PDC phase-diversity calibration

PDF probability density function

ZP zero point

PLM payload module

pRF probabilistic random forest

PRNU pixel-response non-uniformity

PSF point spread function

PTC photon-transfer curve

PV performance-verification

QE quantum efficiency

RG red grism

RMS root mean square

RoI region of interest

ROS reference observing sequence

RPE relative pointing error

RSD redshift-space distortion

RSU readout shutter unit

S/N signal-to-noise ratio

SAA Solar aspect angle

SBF surface brightness fluctuation

SDC Science Data Centre

SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SED spectral energy distribution

SEF single-epoch frame

SEP South Ecliptic Pole

SFE surface figure error

SFR star-formation rate

SGS Science Ground Segment

SHMR stellar mass-halo mass relation

SiC silicon carbide

SLICS Scinet LIghtCone Simulations

SMBH supermassive black hole

SMF stellar mass function

SNe supernovae

SO Simons Observatory

SOC Science Operations Centre

SOM self-organising map

SPACE Spectroscopic All-Sky Cosmic Explorer

SPT South Pole Telescope

SPV Science Performance Verification

SSO Solar System object

STOP structural thermal optical performance

SUDARE SUPernovae Diversity And Rate Evolution

SVM service module

SZ Sunyaev-Zeldovich

TCM transfer correction manoeuvre

TDE tidal disruption event

tSZ thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich

UCD ultra-cool dwarf

UNIONS Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey

VIPERS VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey