Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISTP SB RAS)

Radio Astrophysical Department

From ISTP SB RAS

Head of the Department is C.Sc. (Phys.&Math.) S.V. Lesovoi

[edit] Structure of the Department:

Solar Activity Monitoring Laboratory 3.01 (C.Sc. (Technics) A.V. Gubin)
Dataware and Research Technique Laboratory 3.02 (C.Sc. (Phys.&Math.) D.V. Prosovetsky)
Sun Radioastrophysical Research Laboratory 3.03 (D.Sc. (Phys.&Math.) А.A. Kuznetsov)

The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is among the largest astronomical instruments. It is located in a picturesque wooded valley separating two mountain ridges of the Eastern Sayan Mountains, 220 km away from Irkutsk. It is a cross-type interferometer consisting of two arrays of 128x128 parabolic antennas with 2.5-meter diameter. Antennas are installed equidistantly at a step of 4.9 meters and oriented in the E-W and N-S directions.