State-of-the-art of the low frequency radio astronomy, relevant antenna systems and international cooperation in Ukraine

Authors

  • Oleksander O. Konovalenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1949-9625
  • P. Zarka LESIA, Meudon, France
  • L. G. Sodin Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. V. Zakharenko Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • O. M. Ulyanov Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • M. A. Sidorchuk Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • S. Stepkin Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • Peter L. Tokarsky Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5112-7744
  • A. A. Stanislavsky Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
  • N. N. Kalinichenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. Koliadin Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. Melnik Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. Dorovskyy Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. Shepelev Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • A. Koval Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • Igor N. Bubnov Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-1434
  • Serge N. Yerin Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6978-5956
  • I. Vasylieva LESIA, Meudon, France; Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • A. A. Gridin Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • V. F. Kulishenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • A. P. Reznik Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • A. M. Reznichenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • G. V. Kvasov Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • D. V. Mukha Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • A. D. Khristenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • G. Litvinenko Institute of Radioastronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • Helmut O. Rucker OAW Commission for Astronomy, Graz, Austria
  • M. Panchenko SRI, Graz, Austria
  • G. Fischer SRI, Graz, Austria
  • Alan A. Lecacheux LESIA, Meudon, France
  • L. Denis USN, Nançay, France
  • A. Coffre USN, Nançay, France
  • J.-M. Grießmeier LPC2E, Orléans, France
  • M. Tagger LPC2E, Orléans, France
  • J. N. Girard CEA/AIM, Saclay, France
  • D. Charrier Subatech, Nantes, France
  • V. Ryabov Future University-Hakodate, Japan
  • G. Mann Astrophysikal Institute, Potsdam, Germany
  • A. Brazhenko Poltava Gravimetrical Observatory of the IGP of the NASU, Ukraine
  • V. Koshovyy Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NASU, Lviv, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2015.7136772

Keywords:

radio astronomy, radio interferometry, radio telescope, phased arrays

Abstract

The low frequency radio astronomy (decameter-meter range, frequencies of 10-300 MHz) currently demonstrates rapid progress all over the world. New generations of large antennas - LOFAR, LWA, MWA and others - have been created in many countries. At the same time Ukrainian radio astronomical systems UTR-2 and URAN still remain the largest and most informative ones at the lowest frequency range available for the ground-based radio astronomy (below 33 MHz), especially after their radical modernization during the most recent years. A great number of top priority results have been obtained on the basis of these radio telescopes. The results prove a high significance of the low frequency radio astronomy for astrophysics. Substantial part of these results have been obtained in the course of many year cooperation between Ukraine on one side and France, Austria, Germany and other countries on the other. Creation of new low frequency instruments GURT (Ukraine) and LSS/NenuFAR (France) for the wide frequency range of 10-80 MHz opens up new possibilities for research and fruitful cooperation.

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Published

2015-09-10

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2015: ICATT’2015 - Proc. of X Int. Conf. on Antenna Theory and Techniques

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Invited papers