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(Some of) our published papers

Last updated: November 14, 2023

  1. Gravitational lensing for interstellar power transmission, Slava G. Turyshev, arXiv:2310.17578
  2. Non-coplanar gravitational lenses and the "communication bridge, Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2310.15957
  3. Imaging with a gravitational lens: the geometric view, Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2308.16459 [astro-ph.IM], MNRAS 527(1) 1141-1145 (2024), DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3293
  4. Imaging rotating and orbiting exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens, Viktor T. Toth and Slava G. Turyshev, arXiv:2306.07832 [astro-ph.EP], MNRAS 525(4) 5846-5856 (2023), DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2655
  5. Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats, Slava G. Turyshev, Darren Garber, Louis D. Friedman, Andreas M. Hein, Nathan Barnes, Konstantin Batygin, G. David Brin, Michael E. Brown, Leroy Cronin, Artur Davoyan, Amber Dubill, Sarah Gibson, Donald M. Hassler, Noam R. Izenberg, Pierre Kervella, Philip D. Mauskopf, Neil Murphy, Andrew Nutter, Carolyn Porco, Dario Riccobono, James Schalkwyk, Kevin B. Stevenson, Mark V. Sykes, Mahmooda Sultana, Viktor T. Toth, Marco Velli, S. Pete Worden, arXiv:2303.14917 [astro-ph.EP], Planetary and Space Sciences 235 (2023) 105744, DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2023.105744
  6. Spherical harmonics representation of the gravitational phase shift, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2303.07270 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 107, 104031, (2023), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.104031
  7. Imaging faint sources with the extended solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2301.07495 [astro-ph.IM], Phys. Rev. D 107, 104063, (2023), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.104063
  8. Evolving morphology of resolved stellar Einstein rings, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2209.09534 [astro-ph.IM], ApJ 944 (1), 25 (2023), DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acaf4f
  9. A mission architecture to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens, Henry Helvajian, Alan Rosenthal, John Poklemba, Thomas A. Battista, Marc D. DiPrinzio, Jon M. Neff, John P. McVey, Viktor T. Toth, Slava G. Turyshev, arXiv:2207.03005 [astro-ph.IM], Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (2023), Article in Advance, DOI: 10.2514/1.A35493
  10. Spectrally resolved imaging with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2206.03037 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D (2022) 106, 044059, (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.044059
  11. Resolved imaging of exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2204.04866 [gr-qc], MNRAS 515 (2022) 6122-6132, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2130
  12. Navigating stellar wobbles for imaging with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2112.03019 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 105, 044012, (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.044012
  13. Efficient trace-free decomposition of symmetric tensors of arbitrary rank, Viktor T. Toth and Slava G. Turyshev, arXiv:2109.11743 [gr-qc], Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. (2022) accepted for publication, DOI: 10.1142/S0219887822502012
  14. Recovering the mass distribution of an extended gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2108.07172 [gr-qc], MNRAS 513 (2022) 5355-5376, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1174
  15. Multipole decomposition of gravitational lensing, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2107.13126 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 105, 024022 (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.024022
  16. Gravitational lensing by an extended mass distribution, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2106.06696 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 104, 044013 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044013
  17. Wave-optical study of the Einstein cross formed by a quadrupole gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2105.07295 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 104, 124033 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.124033
  18. Imaging point sources with the gravitational lens of an extended Sun, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2104.08442 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 104, 044032 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044032
  19. Optical properties of an extended gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2103.06955 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 104, 024019 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.024019
  20. Diffraction of electromagnetic waves by an extended gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2102.03891 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 103, 064076 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064076
  21. Image recovery with the solar gravitational lens, Viktor T. Toth and Slava G. Turyshev, arXiv:2012.05477 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 103, 124038 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124038
  22. Exploring the Outer Solar System with Solar Sailing Smallsats on Fast-Transit Trajectories and In-Flight Autonomous Assembly of Advanced Science Payloads, Slava G. Turyshev, Henry Helvajian, Louis D. Friedman, Tom Heinsheimer, Darren Garber, Artur Davoyan, Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2007.05623 [astro-ph.IM]
  23. Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission, Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Viktor T. Toth, Leon Alkalai, Janice Shen, Mark R. Swain, Hanying Zhou, Henry Helvajian, Tom Heinsheimer, Siegfried Janson, Zigmond Leszczynski, John McVey, Darren Garber, Artur Davoyan, Seth Redfield, Jared R. Males, arXiv:2002.11871 [astro-ph.IM]
  24. Image formation for extended sources with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:2002.06492 [astro-ph.IM], Phys. Rev. D 102, 024038 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024038
  25. Image formation process with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1911.03260 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 101, 044048 (2020), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.044048
  26. Photometric imaging with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1909.03116 [astro-ph.IM], Phys. Rev. D 101, 044025 (2020), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.044025
  27. Imaging extended sources with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1908.01948 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 100, 084018 (2019), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084018
  28. Putting gravity to work: Imaging of exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens, Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao and Viktor T. Toth, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D28 (2019) 10, 1950125, DOI: 10.1142/S0218271819501256
  29. Optical properties of the solar gravitational lens in the presence of the solar corona, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1811.06515 [gr-qc], European Physical Journal Plus (2019) 134(2):63, DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2019-12426-4
  30. Diffraction of light by the gravitational field of the Sun and the solar corona, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1810.06627 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 99, 024044 (2019), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.024044
  31. Wave-optical treatment of the shadow cast by a large gravitating sphere, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1805.10581 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 98, 104015 (2018), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.104015
  32. Diffraction of light by plasma in the solar system, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1805.00398 [physics.optics], Journal of Optics 21(4):045601 (2019), DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ab05ad
  33. Recognizing the Value of the Solar Gravitational Lens for Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet, Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Janice Shen, Hanying Zhou, Viktor T. Toth, Louis Friedman, Leon Alkalai, Nitin Arora, Darren D. Garber, Henry Helvajian, Thomas Heinsheimer, Siegfried W. Janson, Les Johnson, Jared R. Males, Roy Nakagawa, Seth Redfield, Nathan Strange, Mark R. Swain, David Van Buren, John L. West, Stacy Weinstein-Weiss, arXiv:1803.04319 [astro-ph.IM]
  34. Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission, Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Leon Alkalai, Nitin Aurora, Darren Garber, Henry Helvajian, Tom Heinsheimer, Siegfried Janson, Jared R. Males, Dmitri Mawet, Roy Nakagawa, Seth Redfield, Janice Shen, Nathan Strange, Mark R. Swain, Viktor T. Toth, Phil A. Willems, John L. West, Stacy Weinstein-Weiss, Hanying Zhou, arXiv:1802.08421 [astro-ph.IM]
  35. Wave-optical treatment of the shadow cast by a large sphere, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1801.06253 [physics.optics], Phys. Rev. A 97, 033810 (2018); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.033810
  36. Diffraction of electromagnetic waves in the gravitational field of the Sun, Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth, arXiv:1704.06824 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D 96, 024008 (2017); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.024008

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