Shashikumar Madhusudan Chitre, Indian astrophysicist (Mumbai 07 May 1936 – Mumbai 11 January 2021)
Considered one of the leading international researchers in astrophysics
Made seminal contributions to understanding of solar oscillations in terms of the internal structure of the sun
With J.V. Narlikar proposed the hypothesis of the gravitational curvature of radio waves due to the presence of galaxies (1978)
Mapped the differential rotation of the solar interior
Measured heavy elements abundances in the solar interior
With Saslaw & Narasimha discovered Einstein rings
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Structure of Sunspots. Mon Not.Roy Astron Soc 123:431, 1963
With V. Canuto. Solidification of the Neutron Matter. Phys. Rev. Letters (1973) 30:9, 1973
With D. Ezer & R. Stothers. Solar Neutrinos and a Central Magnetic Field in the Sun. Astrophys. Letts. 14:37, 1973
With H.M. Antia. Waves in the Sunspot Umbra. Solar Phys, 63:67, 1979
With P.V. Kulkarni, N.M. Ashok, K.M.V. Apparao. Discovery of Infrared Bursts from Liller I/MXB1730333. Nature 280:819, 1979
With D. Narasimha & K. Subramanian. Spheroidal Gravitational Lenses and the Triple Quasar. Mont Not Roy Astron. Soc 200:941, 1982
With K.M.V. Apparao & M.J. Rees. With The Role of Proton Cyclotron Emission near Accreting Magnetic Neurton Stars. Journ. Astrophys. Astron. 3:413, 1982
With K. Subramanian & D. Narasimha, Minilensing of Multiply Imaged Quasars: Flux Variations and Vanishing of Images. Astrophys. Journal 289:37, 1985
With W.C. Saslaw & D. Narasimha. The Gravitational Lens as an Astronomical Diagnostic. Astrophys. Journal (1985) 292:348, 1985
With D. Narasimha & K. Subramanian. “Missing Image” in Gravitational Lens Systems. Nature 321:45, 1986
With K.Subramanian & M.J. Rees. Gravitational Lensing by Dark Galactic Halos, Mont. Not Roy Astron Soc 224:28, 1987
With D. Narasimha. Giant Luminous Arcs in Galaxy Clusters. Astrophys. Journal 332:75, 1988
With D. Narasimha. Lensing of Extended Sources by Dark Galactic Halos. Astron Journal 97:327, 1989
With H.M. Antia. Helioseismic Models and Solar Neutrino Fluxes. Mon Not Roy Astron. Soc. 289: L1, 1997
With H.M. Antia. Determination of temperature and chemical composition profiles in the Solar interior from Seismic Models. Astron. Astrophys. 339:239, 1998
With H.M. Antia & S. Basu. Solar Internal rotation rate and the latitudinal variation of the tachocline. Mon Not Roy Astron. Soc. 298:543, 1998
With H.M. Antia. Limit on the Proton-Proton Reaction Cross-section from Helioseismology. Astron. Astrophys. 347:1000, 1999
With H.M. Antia & M.J. Thompson. The Sun's acoustic sphericity and magnetic fields in the Solar Convection Zone. Astron Astrophys 360:335, 2000
With S.I. Vainshtein & A.V. Olinto. Rapid dissipation of magnetic fields due to the Hall current. Phys Rev E (2000) 61:4422, 2000
With H.M. Antia & M.J. Thompson. On Variation of the Latitudinal Structure of the Solar Convection Zone. Astron Astrophys (2003) 399:329, 2003
With D. Narasimha. Gravitational lens systems to probe extragalactic magnetic fields. Current Sci. 93:1506, 2007
With K.R. Sivaraman & H. M. Antia. Zonal velocity bands and the solar activity cycle. Solar Phys. 251:149, 2008
With H.M. Antia & S. Basu. Solar rotation rate and its gradients during cycle 23, Astrophys. J. 681:680, 2008
With H.M. Antia & D.O. Gough.Temporal variations in the Sun's rotational kinetic energy. Astron. Astrophys. 477:657, 2008