The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is a radio telescope located in the

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republic of Buryatia designed for

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. It has been in operation since 1983. In 2017 it has been upgraded with the Siberian Radioheliograph. It operates in the microwave range (5.7 GHz) where the processes occurring in the

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are accessible to observation over the entire solar disk. It is a crossed

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, consisting of two arrays of 128x128 parabolic antennas 2.5 meters in diameter each, spaced equidistantly at 4.9 meters and oriented in the E-W and N-S directions. It is located in a wooded valley separating two mountain ridges of the Eastern Sayan Mountains and Khamar-Daban, 220 km from Irkutsk, Russia.

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Data of the Siberian Solar Radio Telescope are accessible via http://badary.iszf.irk.ru {{Radio-astronomy Radio telescopes