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Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu Miyauchi , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate numerically a models of the static spherically symmetric boson-fermion stars in scalar-tensor theory of gravity with massive dilaton field. The proper mathematical model of such stars is interpreted as a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 T. L. Boyadjiev , M. D. Todorov , P. P. Fiziev , S. S. Yazadjiev

Boson stars are often described as macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates. By accommodating large numbers of bosons in the same quantum state, they materialize macroscopically the intangible probability density cloud of a single particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

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

A model of static boson-fermion star with spherical symmetry based on the scalar-tensor theory of gravity with massive dilaton field is investigated numerically. Since the radius of star is \textit{a priori} an unknown quantity, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 T. L. Boyadjiev , M. D. Todorov , P. P. Fiziev , S. S. Yazadjiev

We study the possibility that self-interacting bosonic dark matter forms star-like objects. We study both the case of attractive and repulsive self-interactions, and we focus particularly in the parameter phase space where self-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Joshua Eby , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Ultralight bosons such as axions and dark photons are well-motivated hypothetical particles, whose couplings to ordinary matter can be effectively constrained by stellar cooling. Limits on these interactions can be obtained by demanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhaoyu Bai , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen , Yuyan Li , Jamie I. McDonald , Hyeonseok Seong

One of the most interesting candidates for dark matter are massive real scalar particles. A well-motivated example is from a pure Yang-Mills hidden sector, which locks up into glueballs in the early universe. The lightest glueball states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-29 Mark P. Hertzberg , Fabrizio Rompineve , Jessie Yang

The properties of selfinteracting boson stars with different scalar potentials going beyond the commonly used $\phi^4$ ansatz are studied. The scalar potential is extended to different values of the exponent $n$ of the form $V \propto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Sarah Louisa Pitz , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

This study investigates the optical imaging characteristics of massive boson stars based on a model with Einstein's nonlinear electrodynamics. Under asymptotically flat boundary conditions, the field equations are solved numerically to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Huan Ye , Ke-Jian He , Hao Yu

Owed to their compactness, neutron stars involve strong gravity and extreme density physics. Nevertheless, at present, there are a variety of problems where progress (at least conceptually) can be made in the context of weak gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Nils Andersson , Fabian Gittins , Shanshan Yin , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

We study the feebly interacting dark matter with the Standard Model fields, where the preceding and the latter ones are the constituents of the bosonic cosmological objects, the scalar boson stars (BS). The scalar dark matter (SDM) massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 G. A. Kozlov

In this paper, we have constructed Boson star (BS) solutions in four dimensional scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) theory. In order to have non-trivial effect from Gauss-Bonnet term, we invoked non-minimal coupling between a complex scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Vishal Baibhav , Debaprasad Maity

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

We study static, spherically symmetric neutron stars in a class of scalar-tensor theories with non-canonical kinetic terms (K-essence) obeying all causality and hyperbolicity conditions. These models have non-trivial dynamics that lead to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-12 Mark P. Hertzberg , Oleksandr S. Stashko

In the present work we address the issue concerning the relation mass versus radius for bosonic stars, all this in the context of the theory of ultra-cold gases in the dilute regime and within the realm of Newtonian gravity. It will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-02 Sergio Gutiérrez , Belen Carvente , Abel Camacho

In this paper we present several set of solutions of static and spherically symmetric solitonic boson stars. Each set is characterized by the value of {\sigma} that defines the solitonic potential in the complex scalar field theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Lucas G. Collodel , Daniela D. Doneva

We present a general formulation to analyze the structure of slowly rotating relativistic stars in a broad class of scalar-tensor theories with disformal coupling to matter. Our approach includes theories with generalized kinetic terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Masato Minamitsuji , Hector O. Silva

Gauged boson stars are exotic compact objects that can potentially mimic black holes or magnetized neutron stars in both their gravitational and electromagnetic signatures, offering a compelling new description or even an alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Víctor Jaramillo , Darío Núñez , Milton Ruiz , Miguel Zilhão

Boson stars are descendants of the so-called geons of Wheeler, except that they are built from scalar particles instead of electromagnetic fields. If scalar fields exist in nature, such localized configurations kept together by their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck