Over the past couple of days, the following acronyms were actively used in various Slack channels for which I did not find definitions in the Rubin glossary. Out of 55 terms/acronyms encountered, 23 were not in the glossary. Some of the terms are fairly obvious but in the interests of uniform coverage and helping new comers I offer the following list of suggested new entries to the glossary. Actual candidate definitions or guesses have, in some cases, been provided. In others, a few words of context.
AZ ? azimuth
CFS ? as in “cfs server”
CLT ? Chile standard time (UTC -4)
EL ? elevation
FCS ? filter control system? (This may have been a typo for “FES”)
HV ? High Voltage
IR2 ? interaction region 2 at SLAC where Camera was built and support continues
IS ? (as in “tried to update the M1M3 IS, but it did not work.”)
L7 ? Level 7 of observatory complex
MTCamera?
MTMount ?
MTPtg ?
MTQueue ?
OS ? (Observing Scientist?)
PoC ? point of contact
PXI ? (specialized computer?)
RA ? (other than “risk assessment” or “right ascension”. Maybe “rapid analysis”? as in “merlin Picking up two new small pods for RA.”)
ROI ? region of interest
RTV raster to vector (context suggests “rubin TV”?)
STO ? (as in “external disable comes from the STO”)
TS7 ? Test Stand 7 (at SLAC)
TS8 ? Test Stand 8 (at SLAC)
TU ? (as in “we will apply a configuration in our TU firewall”)
Just for fun, here are the remaining 32 terms/acronyms encountered which were found in the glossary:
ADU analog to digital unit
CBP collimated beam projector
CCD charge coupled device
CCS camera control system
CCW camera cable wrap
CSC commandable SAL component
DNS domain name service
DREAM dutch rubin enhanced atmospheric monitor
EFD engineering and facility database
ESS environmental sensors support
EUI engineering user interface
FBS feature based scheduler
FES filter exchange system
GIS global interlock system
LOTO lock out tag out
LOVE lsst operators visualization system
LUT look-up table
MCM master control module
MTAOS main telescope active optics system
MTOFC main telescope optical feedback system
OCS observatory control system
OSS oil supply system
PCS pumped coolant system
PTC photon transfer curve
RF radio frequency
S3 (Amazon) simple storage service
SAL service abstration layer
SSO solar system object
TAI international atomic time
TMA telescope mount assembly
UTC coordinated universal time
VPN virtual private network