Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISTP SB RAS)
Highly-potential radar for measuring ionospheric plasma parameters using the radio wave incoherent scatter method
From ISTP SB RAS
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| The Irkutsk Radar of Incoherent Scatter (IRIS) for ionosphere plasma parameters measuring by incoherent scatter technique is the member of worldwide radar net which consists of nine radars and each radar in the net is unique scientific device. Irkutsk radar is close to foreign radars by its technical characteristics. Besides technical characteristics, the radar uniqueness is determined by its geographical position owing to importance of coordinated observations for global distributions. |
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The Irkutsk Radar of Incoherent Scatter (IRIS) fills up substantial gap in longtitude chain of USA, Japan and European radars. This radar is the only Russian radar included in "List of scientific unique devices of national importance which requires additional government support(registration No. 01-28) |
Main characteristics:
| Location | 62 MHz |
| Peak power | 2.5-3.2 MW |
| Pulse duration | 140-82O mks |
| Pulse repetition rate | 24.4 Hz |
| Antenna type | sectorial horn |
| Horn aperture size | 246 m x 12.2 m |
| Horn height | 2O m |
| Horn flare angle | 32 grad |
| Antenna gain | 35 dB |
| Beam width | O.5 grad(N - S),1O grad (E - W) |
| Scan sector | 6O grad (N - S) |
| Polarization | linear |
| System temperature | 400-500 K |
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