Friday 8 January 2016, by Baptiste Cecconi
Several radio instrument are located in Ukraine. The main one is the Ukrainian T-shape Radiotelescope (UTR-2) is located near Kharkiv (Ukraine). It observes in the range 8 to 32 MHz, with an array of 2040 linearly polarized (E-W) dipole antennas. More info.
| Ukrainian Radio Telescopes | |
|---|---|
| UTR2 | |
| Name | Ukrainian T-shaped Radio telescope, second modification |
| Location | near Kharkov (Ukraine) |
| Effective Area | 100 000 m2 |
| Antenna type | Thick dipoles |
| Number of antenna | 2040 |
| Frequency bandwidth | 8-32 MHz |
| Scheduling | one week per month (at least), with ± 4h from culmination every time |
| Time resolution | up to 1 ms (some time wave-form) |
| Frequency resolution | 4 kHz |
| Configurations | ON-OFF regimes, 3 beams |
| URAN-2 | |
| Name | Ukrainian Radio Interferometer of NASU, number 2 |
| Location | near Poltava (Ukraine) |
| Effective Area | 28 000m2 |
| Antenna Type | Crossed dipoles |
| Number of antenna | 512 |
| Frequency bandwidth | 8-32 MHz |
| Scheduling | practically every day, with ± 4h from culmination every time |
| Time resolution | 100 ms |
| Frequency resolution | 4 kHz |
| URAN-3 | |
| Name | Ukrainian Radio Interferometer of NASU, number 2 |
| Location | near Lvov (Ukraine) |
| Effective Area | 14 000 m2 |
| Antenna Type | Cross dipoles |
| Number of antenna | 256 |
| Frequency Bandwidth | 8-32 MHz |
| Scheduling | one week per month (at least, may be some times instead of URAN-2), width ± 4h from culmination every time |
| Time resolution | 100 ms |
| Frequency resolution | 4 kHz |
| GURT | |
| Name | Giant Ukrainian Radio Telescope |
| Location | near Kharkov (Ukraine) |
| Effective Area | 400 m2 |
| Antenna Type | Cross dipoles |
| Number of antenna | 25 |
| Frequency Bandwidth | 8-70 MHz |
| Scheduling | few days per month, with ± 4h from culmination every time |
| Time resolution | <2 ms |
| Frequency resolution | 6 kHz |