| Acronym | Meaning |
| HETE | High Energy Transient Explorer |
| SATI | Spectral Airglow Temp. Imager |
| PERALS | Photon-Electron Rejecting Alpha Liquid Scintillation |
| NIPR | National Institute Of Polar Research |
| HBT | Hanbury Brown Twiss (interferometry) |
| PIERS | Polarized Infrared External Reflection Spectroscopy |
| LHEA | Laboratory For High Energy Astrophysics |
| LIS | Lanthanide-induced Shift |
| GSD | Glycogen Storage Disease |
| RITS | Radiatively Important Trace Species |