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