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We construct spherically-symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Euler system involving a complex scalar field governed by a periodic potential which emerges in models of axion-like particles, and fermionic matter modeled by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-14 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Davide Guerra , Simone Albanesi , Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Dimitra Tseneklidou

We make a detailed study of boson star configurations in Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory, studying both equilibrium properties and stability, and considering boson stars existing at different cosmic epochs. We show that boson stars can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Diego F Torres , Franz E Schunck , Andrew R Liddle

A collection of modern, field-theoretical equations of state is applied to the investigation of cooling properties of compact stars. These comprise neutron stars as well as hypothetical strange matter stars, made up of absolutely stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ch. Schaab , F. Weber , M. K. Weigel , N. K. Glendenning

Boson Stars are macroscopic self-gravitating configurations made of complex scalar fields. These exotic compact objects would manifest as dark Boson stars and, in the absence of electromagnetic signatures, could mimic properties of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Boson stars may consist of a new type of light singlet scalar particles with nontrivial self-interactions, and may compose a fraction of the dark matter in the Universe. In this work, we study the dynamics of boson stars with Liouville and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 Gongjun Choi , Hong-Jian He , Enrico D. Schiappacasse

Theoretical models of self-interacting dark matter represent a promising answer to a series of open problems within the so-called collisionless cold dark matter (CCDM) paradigm. In case of asymmetric dark matter, self-interactions might…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrea Maselli , Pantelis Pnigouras , Niklas Gønlund Nielsen , Chris Kouvaris , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We study the impact of asymmetric bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties, including possible changes of tidal deformability, maximum mass, radius, and matter distribution inside the star. The conditions at which dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Violetta Sagun , Edoardo Giangrandi , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Costança Providência , Tim Dietrich

In this work we investigate the properties of neutron stars admixed with selfinteracting scalar bosonic dark matter. The dark matter interaction is described by a generalized $\phi^n$ power-law potential. We perform a stability analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Sarah Louisa Pitz , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze

Recent fully non-linear simulations of ultracompact spherically symmetric boson stars have presented evidence for their long-term stability. All observed dynamics could be mainly attributed to the fundamental radial mode. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Seppe J. Staelens

Mixed fermion-boson stars are stable, horizonless, everywhere regular solutions of the coupled Einstein-(complex, massive) Klein-Gordon-Euler system. While isolated neutron stars and boson stars are uniquely determined by their central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José Antonio Font

In this work, we explore the possible scenario of strange stars admixed with fermionic or bosonic dark matter. For the description of the ``visible'' sector, we use a specific phenomenological quark model that takes into account in-medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Isabella Marzola , Everson H. Rodrigues , Anderson F. Coelho , Odilon Lourenço

Gravitational wave astronomy might allow us to detect the coalescence of low-brightness astrophysical compact objects which are extremely difficult to be observed with current electromagnetic telescopes. Besides classical sources like black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Miguel Bezares , Carlos Palenzuela

We study numerically the nonlinear stability of {\it excited} fermion-boson stars in spherical symmetry. Such compound hypothetical stars, composed by fermions and bosons, are gravitationally bound, regular, and static configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

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 investigated the possibility that compact stars could be described by a fermion-boson star with a quartic self-interaction in the boson sector. Specifically, by varying the polytropic constant $K$ and adiabatic index $\Gamma$ in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , J. M. Dávila , L. Arturo Ureña-López , Ricardo Becerril

We provide a detailed analysis of how bosonic dark matter "condensates" interact with compact stars, extending significantly the results of a recent Letter. We focus on bosonic fields with mass $m_B$, such as axions, axion-like candidates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Hirotada Okawa , Carlos Palenzuela

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

In this manuscript the three types of late-time behavior of spherically symmetric Boson Stars are presented, these are: stable configurations, unstable bounded that collapse to form black holes and unstable unbounded that explode. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 F. S. Guzman

We investigate the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos made up of a massless bosonic field. The coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are solved numerically, showing that such a boson halo is stable and can be formed under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayashree Balakrishna , Franz E. Schunck