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We extend our previous studies of head-on collisions of boson stars by considering orbiting binary boson stars. We concentrate on equal mass binaries and study the dynamical behavior of boson/boson and boson/antiboson pairs. We examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Palenzuela , L. Lehner , S. L. Liebling

Rotating fermion-boson stars are hypothetical celestial objects that consist of both fermionic and bosonic matter interacting exclusively through gravity. Bosonic fields are believed to arise in certain models of particle physics describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Christoph Adam , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

We present a class of general relativistic soliton-like solutions composed of multiple minimally coupled, massive, real scalar fields which interact only through the gravitational field. We describe a two-parameter family of solutions we…

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

In this work we study the boson stars and boson shells in a theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical potential in the presence of a cosmological constant ${\Lambda}$ which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

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

Scalar boson stars have attracted attention as simple models for exploring the nonlinear dynamics of a large class of ultra compact and black hole mimicking objects. Here, we study the impact of interactions in the scalar matter making up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

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 analyze the physical properties of boson stars, which possess counterparts in flat space-time, Q-balls. Applying a stability analysis via catastrophe theory, we show that the families of rotating and non-rotating boson stars exhibit two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Stefanie Schneider

We study boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := m^{2} |\Phi|^2 +2 \lambda |\Phi|$ (where $m^2$ and $\lambda$ are positive constant parameters). This could be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We discuss boson stars and neutron stars, respectively, in a scalar-tensor gravity model with an explicitly time-dependent real scalar field. While the boson stars in our model -- in contrast to the neutron stars -- do not possess a hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu , B. Hartmann

We investigate the boson star with the self-interacting scalar field as a model of galactic halos. The model has slightly increasing rotation curves and allows wider ranges of the mass($m$) and coupling($\lambda$) of the halo dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jae-weon Lee , In-guy Koh

We consider compact boson stars that arise for a V-shaped scalar field potential. They represent a one parameter family of solutions of the scaled Einstein-signum-Gordon equations. We analyze the physical properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

$\ell$-boson stars are static, spherical, multi-field self-gravitating solitons. They are asymptotically flat, finite energy solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an odd number of massive, complex scalar fields. A previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Víctor Jaramillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , Darío Núñez

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

$Q$-stars are a class of boson stars arising in scalar-field theories with interacting potentials, minimally coupled to gravity. We show that, in certain regions of parameter space, the angular velocity of stable timelike circular geodesics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Víctor Jaramillo , Laura Meneses , Héctor R. Olivares Sánchez , Carlos Herdeiro , Darío Núñez , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We investigate boson stars in an $O(3)$ scalar field theory with a symmetry-breaking potential. By constructing numerically spherically symmetric solutions, we demonstrate that the model gives rise to a rich set of field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jutta Kunz , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk , Yakov Shnir

We complete the analysis of part I in this series (Ref. \cite{Stotyn:2013yka}) by numerically constructing boson stars in 2+1 dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant, minimally coupled to a complex scalar field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-19 Sean Stotyn , Melanie Chanona , Robert B. Mann

Scalar bosonic stars (BSs) stand out as a multi-purpose model of exotic compact objects. We enlarge the landscape of such (asymptotically flat, stationary, everywhere regular) objects by considering multiple fields (possibly) with different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-23 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , José A. Font

We explore whether supermassive non-baryonic stars (in particular boson, mini-boson and non-topological soliton stars) might be at the center of some galaxies, with special attention to the Milky Way. We analyze, from a dynamical point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Diego F. Torres , S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase

We study boson shells and boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to the $U(1)$ gauge field $A_{\mu}$ and Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := \frac{1}{2} m^{2} \left(|\Phi|+ a \right)^2$. This could be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha