Acronyms and Vocab and Our Proposal, Oh my!!

Acronyms and Vocab

What do these mean? Here is the start of a list, fill in the answers right next to the words! Add more words/acronyms to the list!

Aperture Radius
Background Annulus
Julian Day
Janskys
Luminosity
Intensity
RA and Dec
Galactic coordinates
APT
DS9
2MASS
SIMBAD
IRAC
IPAC
IRAF
BCD - Basic Calibrated Data

Our Proposal

Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf Read through our proposal. Below, list a few things that you totally understand as well as some questions you have.