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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

This work is devoted to the study of photon trajectories around rotating boson stars. The basic properties of boson star models are given with a particular emphasis on the high compactness those objects can have. Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Philippe Grandclément

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 study exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

We study the nonlinear radial stability of boson stars with a solitonic potential across the entire parameter space, focusing especially on families of solutions that support ultracompact models on the perturbatively stable branch. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Gareth Arturo Marks

We present a novel numerical solver for the systems of coupled non-linear elliptical differential equations. The solver partitions the computational domain into a set of rectangular pseudo-spectral collocation subdomains and is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Nikolay Sukhov

We study solutions for boson stars in multiscalar theory. We start with simple models with N scalar theories. Our purpose is to study the models in which the mass matrix of scalars and the scalar couplings are given by an extended method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We study a scalar field theory with a non-standard kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We establish the existence of compact boson stars, that is, static solutions with compact support of the full system with self-gravitation taken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 C. Adam , N. Grandi , P. Klimas , J. Sanchez-Guillen , A. Wereszczynski

We study static, spherically symmetric, self-gravitating systems minimally coupled to a scalar field with U(1) gauge symmetry: charged boson stars. We find numerical solutions to the EinsteinMaxwell equations coupled to the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-05 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo , Jorge A. Rueda H. , Remo Ruffini

Q-balls are non-topological solitons arising in scalar field theories. Solutions for rotating Q-balls (and the related boson stars) have been shown to exist when the angular momentum is equal to an integer multiple of the Q-ball charge $Q$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Yahya Almumin , Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

Using the Newtonian approximation, we study rotating compact bosonic objects. The equations which describe stationary states with non-zero angular momentum are constructed and some numerical results are presented as examples. Limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Vanda Silveira , Claudio M. G. de Sousa

Some recent results on rotating self-gravitating configurations composed with Bosons and Fermions are reported. Given a star composed of both Bosons and Fermions without interaction, it is shown that it is possible to obtain stable slowly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Claudio M. G. de Sousa

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

Compact bosonic field configurations, or boson stars, are promising dark matter candidates which have been invoked as an alternative description for the supermassive compact objects in active galactic nuclei. Boson stars can be comparable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-26 Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Luís C. B. Crispino

Spherically symmetric configurations of the non-interacting massive complex scalar field, representing non-rotating boson stars, are considered within the framework of the modified torsion based $f(T)$ gravity, with $f(T) = T + \alpha \,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-19 Saša Ilijić , Marko Sossich

Boson stars are gravitationally bound objects that arise in ultralight dark matter models and form in the centers of galactic halos or axion miniclusters. We systematically study the excitations of a boson star, taking into account the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 James Hung-Hsu Chan , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

We study charged boson stars in scalar-tensor (ST) gravitational theories. We analyse the weak field limit of the solutions and analytically show that there is a maximum charge to mass ratio for the bosons above which the weak field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 A. W. Whinnett , Diego F. Torres

We numerically construct asymptotically anti-de Sitter boson star solutions using a minimally coupled $\frac{D-1}{2}$-tuplet complex scalar field in $D=5,7,9,11$ dimensions. The metric admits multiple Killing vector fields in general,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-19 Sean Stotyn , C. Danielle Leonard , Marius Oltean , Laura J. Henderson , Robert B. Mann

A code to evolve boson stars in 3D is presented as the starting point for the evolution of scalar field systems with arbitrary symmetries. It was possible to reproduce the known results related to perturbations discovered with 1D numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Siddhartha Guzman

We construct and explore the complex structures of boson stars, drawing inspiration from similar configurations of non-topological solitons in Minkowski space. These "molecular states" of boson stars have a multipolar structure and both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Víctor Jaramillo , Shuang-Yong Zhou