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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 in zero-, one-, and two-node equilibrium states are modeled numerically within the framework of Scalar-Tensor Gravity. The complex scalar field is taken to be both massive and self-interacting. Configurations are formed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Comer , Hisa-aki Shinkai

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

We examined the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics framework that asymptotically supports a Hayward spacetime. We explored the solution space of a static spherically symmetric, complex scalar field minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Sebastian S. Chicaiza-Medina , Juan Carlos Degollado

We solve Einstein equations coupled to a complex scalar field with infinitely large self-interaction, degenerate fermions, and a negative cosmological constant in $(2+1)$ dimensions. Exact solutions for static boson-fermion stars are found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

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 reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Tamara Evstafyeva , Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

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 consider a model with two real Maxwell fields (or equivalently, a complex Maxwell field) minimally coupled to Einsteins gravity with a negative cosmological constant in four spacetime dimensions. Assuming a specific harmonic dependence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Carlos Herdeiro , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

Bound states of complex scalar fields (boson stars) have long been proposed as possible candidates for the dark matter in the universe. Considerable work has already been done to study various aspects of boson stars. In the present work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 R. Sharma , S. Karmakar , S. Mukherjee

Gravitationally bound structures composed by fermions and scalar particles known as fermion-boson stars are regular and static configurations obtained by solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Euler (EKGE) system. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We study axially symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations describing spinning gauged boson stars in a 3+1 dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetime. These smooth horizonless solutions possess an electric charge and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Olga Kichakova , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

We present 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 by tuning a one-parameter family of initial data composed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

A self-interacting SU(2)-doublet of complex scalar fields, minimally coupled to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is considered in five space-time dimensions. The classical equations admit two families of solitons corresponding to spinning and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Yves Brihaye , Jürgen Riedel

This paper aims to explore a class of static stellar equilibrium configuration of relativistic charged spheres made of a charged perfect fluid. Solving the Einstein-Maxwell field equations, we consider a particularized metric potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 J. Kumar , S. K. Maurya , A. K. Prasad , Ayan Banerjee

Boson Stars are stationary, axially symmetric solutions of a complex scalar field theory coupled to gravity. Recently, multi-solitonic configurations interpreted as static chains of multiple Boson Stars bound by gravity and carrying no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Romain Gervalle

In this paper, we study frozen states of charged boson stars. These solutions are globally regular and exist in a U(1) gauged scalar field model minimally coupled to gravity for suitable choices of the coupling constants. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We study charged and rotating boson stars in 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell(-Chern-Simons) theory assuming the two angular momenta associated to the two orthogonal planes of rotation to be equal. Next to the angular momenta, the boson stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We find new spherically symmetric charged boson star solutions of a complex scalar field coupled non-minimally to gravity by a "John-type" term of Horndeski theory, that is a coupling between the kinetic scalar term and Einstein tensor. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Y. Verbin , Y. Brihaye

The theoretical description of compact structures that share some key features with mass varying particles allows for a simple analysis of equilibrium and stability for massive stellar bodies. We investigate static, spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-05 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami