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We construct boson stars in global Anti de Sitter (AdS) space and study their stability. Linear perturbation results suggest that the ground state along with the first three excited state boson stars are stable. We evolve some of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-26 Alex Buchel , Steven L. Liebling , Luis Lehner

Magnetic fields vary in complexity for different stars. The stability of dipolar magnetic fields is known to depend on different quantities, e.g., the stellar rotation, the stratification, and the intensity of convective motions. Here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Bonnie Zaire , Laurene Jouve

Boson stars consist of a system of self-gravitating scalar fields which form a macroscopic quantum state and are a possible dark matter candidate. In this paper, we address the existence of boson stars in Brans-Dicke gravity. We show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Mark A. Gunderson , Lars Gerhard Jensen

We construct the first dynamically stable ergostars (equilibrium neutron stars that contain an ergoregion) for a compressible, causal equation of state. We demonstrate their stability by evolving both strict and perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Lunan Sun , Stuart L. Shapiro , Kōji Uryū

The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

We study solutions for boson stars in the multi-scalar field theory with global symmetry $[U(1)]^N$. The properties of the boson stars are investigated by the Newtonian approximation with the large coupling limit. Our purpose is to study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We present new results for pulsating stars in general relativity. First we show that the so-called gravitational-wave modes of a neutron star can be excited when a gravitational wave impinges on the star. Numerical simulations suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Nils Andersson , Kostas D. Kokkotas

The gravitational-wave and accretion driven evolution of neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries and similar systems is analyzed, while the amplitude of the radiating perturbation (here assumed to be an r-mode) remains small. If most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert V. Wagoner , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jingsong Liu

The lowest adiabatic potential expressed in hyperspherical coordinates is estimated for two boson systems in an external harmonic trap. Corresponding conditions for stability are investigated and the related structures are extracted for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Sogo , O. Sørensen , A. S. Jensen , D. V. Fedorov

The stability of static uncharged spheres with anisotropic internal stresses is studied in general relativity. It has been noticed that pressure anisotropy plays an important role for stability of stellar structure. It is shown that radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 B. S. Ratanpal

Parameter regions in which stars can become pulsationally unstable are found throughout the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram. Stars of high, intermediate, low and very low masses may cross various instability regions along their paths of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sonja Schuh

An exact solution for a nonrotating boson star in (2+1) dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant is found. The relations among mass, particle number, and radius of the (2+1) dimensional boson star are shown.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We present results from a study of Type I critical phenomena in the dynamics of general relativistic boson stars in spherical symmetry. The boson stars are modelled with a minimally coupled, massive complex field (with no explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-05 Chi Wai Lai , Matthew W. Choptuik

It has been shown that scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. In this study, we analyze boson star configurations where the scalar fields contain a small amount of angular momentum and find two new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman , Freida Liz Rivera

We examine the protoneutron star (PNS) stability in this study by solving the radial oscillation equations. For this purpose, we adopt the numerical results of massive PNS toward the black hole formation obtained by spherically symmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Hajime Sotani , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

The study of the properties and dynamics of self-gravitating bosonic objects in Einstein gravity was conducted. We studied self-coupled boson stars and determined the quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies of stable boson stars in spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jayashree Balakrishna

As shown by Marunovic and Murkovic, non-minimal d-stars, composite structures consisting of a boson star and a global monopole non-minimally coupled to the general relativistic field, can have extremely high gravitational compactness. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Gray D. Reid , Matthew W. Choptuik

We explore the gravitational-wave emission from head-on collisions of equal-mass solitonic boson-star binaries from simulations spanning a two-dimensional parameter space, consisting of the central scalar-field amplitude of the stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Bo-Xuan Ge , Eugene A. Lim , Ulrich Sperhake , Tamara Evstafyeva , Daniela Cors , Eloy de Jong , Robin Croft , Thomas Helfer

We study adiabatic oscillations of rotating self-gravitating gaseous stars in mathematically rigorous manner. The internal motion of the star is supposed to be governed by the Euler-Poisson equations with rotation of constant angular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Tetu Makino

We present a brief synopsis of related work (gr-qc/0007039), describing a study of black hole threshold phenomena for a self-gravitating, massive complex scalar field in spherical symmetry. We construct Type I critical solutions dynamically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik