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Charged Proca Stars

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-22 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we study gauged solutions associated to a massive vector field representing a spin-one condensate, namely the Proca field. We focus on regular spherically-symmetric solutions which we construct either using a self-interaction potential or general relativity in order to glue the solutions together. We start generating non-gravitating solutions, so-called, Proca Q-balls and charged Proca Q-balls. Then, we turn-on backreaction on the metric, allowing gravity to hold together the Proca condensate, to study the so-called Proca stars, charged Proca stars, Proca Q-stars and charged Proca Q-stars.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.00011,
  title  = {Charged Proca Stars},
  author = {Federico García and Ignacio Salazar Landea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00011},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures, v2: revised version

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