| USNO | United States Naval Observatory |
| VIMOS | Visible MultiObject Spectrograph |
| VIPERS | VIMOS Public Extra Galactic Observation Survey |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language (XML) table format |
| Youpi | “YOUpi is your processing PIpeline” |
| ZP(s) | Zero Point(s) |
| 2MASS | The Two Micron All Sky Survey |