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We investigate boson stars within the framework of the self-interacting Einstein-Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (E-FLS) model, constituted by a complex scalar field with a quartic self-interaction and a real scalar field. Our analysis explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Pedro L. Brito de Sá , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

Rotating bosonic dark matter halos are considered as potential candidates for modeling dark matter in galactic halos. These bosonic dark matter halos can be viewed as a dilute and very extended version of bosonic stars, and the methods used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-13 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Christoph Adam

We study, for the first time, the evolution of a scalar cloud bound to an evaporating black hole. Our simulations of the associated Schr\"odinger-Poisson system for non-relativistic and spherically symmetric clouds reveal that a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Daniel Neves , João G. Rosa

Boson stars arise as solutions of a massive complex scalar field coupled to gravity. A variety of scalar potentials, giving rise to different types of boson stars, have been studied in the literature. Here we study instead the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Pablo A. Cano , Ludovico Machet , Charlotte Myin

We review particle-like configurations of complex scalar field, localized by gravity, so-called boson stars. In the simplest case, these solutions posses spherical symmetry, they may arise in the massive Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-14 Yakov Shnir

The dense environment of neutron stars makes them an excellent target for probing dark matter interactions with the Standard Model. We study neutron star heating from capture of inelastic dark matter, which can evade direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Gerardo Alvarez , Aniket Joglekar , Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr , Hai-Bo Yu

Gravitational waves can provide crucial insights about the environments in which black holes live. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations to study the behaviour of self-interacting scalar (wave-like) dark matter clouds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-04 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , James Marsden , Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira

Axions have been argued to form coherent axionic boson stars as well as incoherent axion gas. These are ones of most plausible candidates of dark matters. Since the axionic boson stars generate oscillating electric fields in an external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aiichi Iwazaki

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

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

Neutron stars change their structure with accumulation of dark matter. We study how their mass is influenced from the environment. Close to the sun, the dark matter accretion from the neutron star does not have any effect on it. Moving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Antonino Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou , Maksym Deliyergiyev

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

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an able alternative to collisionless dark matter. If dark matter does have self-interactions, we would expect this to cause a separation between the collisionless stars and the dark matter halo of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 Kris Pardo , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We study the geodesic motion of test particles in the space-time of non-compact boson stars. These objects are made of a self-interacting scalar field and -- depending on the scalar field's mass -- can be as dense as neutron stars or even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-21 Valeria Diemer , Keno Eilers , Betti Hartmann , Isabell Schaffer , Catalin Toma

Dark matter in the cosmological concordance model is parameterised by a single number, describing the covariantly conserved energy density of a non-relativistic fluid. Here we test this assumption in a model-independent and conservative way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Torsten Bringmann , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Parampreet Walia

The particle that makes up the dark matter of the universe could be an axion or axion-like particle. A collection of axions can condense into a bound Bose-Einstein condensate called an axion star. It is possible that a significant fraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Eric Braaten , Hong Zhang

Black holes with masses $\approx 1\, M_{\odot}$ cannot be produced via stellar evolution. A popular scenario of their formation involves transmutation of neutron stars - by accumulation of dark matter triggering gravitational collapse in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-28 Raghuveer Garani , Dmitry Levkov , Peter Tinyakov

We investigate quartically self-interacting massive boson stars by constructing equilibrium sequences and performing dynamical evolutions. The mass curve $M(|\phi_c|)$ along these sequences develops multiple extrema, yet stability changes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Bo-Xuan Ge

We investigate the possible gravitational redshift values for boson stars with a self-interaction, studying a wide range of possible masses. We find a limiting value of $z_{lim} \simeq 0.687$ for stable boson star configurations. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Franz E Schunck , Andrew R Liddle