Note: this is an archived version which has been superseded. The current SNR catalogue is at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/

Galactic SNRs: Abbreviations

These are the abbreviations for journals, proceedings and telescopes that are used in the detailed lists for each SNR


Journals

A&A
Astronomy & Astrophysics
A&AS
Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement
AJ
Astronomical Journal
ApJ
Astrophysical Journal
ApJS
Astrophysical Journal Supplement
AstL
Astronomy Letters
ARep
Astronomy Reports (Astronomicheskii Zhurnal translation)
AuJPh
Australian Journal of Physics
AuJPA
Australian Journal of Physics Astrophysical Supplement
JApA
Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy
JRASC
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
MNRAS
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Natur
Nature
PASAu
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia
PASJ
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
PASP
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
RMxAA
Review of Mexican Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sci
Science
SvA
Soviet Astronomy
SvAL
Soviet Astronomy Letters

Proceedings

SNRISM
is Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium, (IAU Colloquium 101), eds Roger, R.S. & Landecker, T.L., (Cambridge University Press), 1988.

Radio Telescopes

5km
Cambridge 5-km Telescope
6C
Cambridge low frequency northern survey
ATCA
Australia Telescope Compact Array
CLFST
Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
DRAO
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
FIRST
Fleurs Synthesis Telescope
HMT
Cambridge Half-Mile Telescope
MOST
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
NRAO
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRO
Nobeyama Radio Observatory
OMT
Cambridge One-Mile Telescope
OSRT
Ooty Synthesis Radio Telescope
TPT
Clark Lake TPT telescope
VLA
Very Large Array
VRO
Vermillion River Observatory
WSRT
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

Satellites

HST
Hubble Space Telescope
ISO
Infrared Space Observatory

X-ray:

EXOSAT
European X-ray Observatory Satellite
ROSAT
Röntgensatellit
ASCA
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics

On board Einstein (HEAO-2):

HRI
High Resolution Imager
IPC
Imaging Proportional Counter

Dave Green/MRAO, Cambridge, UK/D.A.Green@mrao.cam.ac.uk