GLOSSARY
AIP
American
Institute of Physics
CIT California
Institute of Technology in
CO
carbon
monoxide (a gas common in the ISM)
CSO
Caltech
Submillimeter Observatory
DCN deuterium
cyanide (deuterium = heavy hydrogen)
EIS Environmental
Impact Study
em
electromagnetic radiation
HCN
hydrogen
cyanide (see DCN above)
ISM
inter-stellar
medium
JPL Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (associated with CIT in Pasadena)
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
NSF
National
Science Foundation
OVRO
Owens Valley< Radio Observatory in California
PI
Principal
Investigator
RBL
Robert
Benjamin Leighton
SIS
a Super-conductor Insulator Super-conductor junction
which serves as a sensor of submillimeter em waves
SQPAT Superconducting Quantum Photon-Assisted
Tunneling, the phenomenon that describes the function of the SIS
TGP
Thomas G. Phillips