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One of the most interesting candidates for dark matter are massive real scalar particles. A well-motivated example is from a pure Yang-Mills hidden sector, which locks up into glueballs in the early universe. The lightest glueball states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-29 Mark P. Hertzberg , Fabrizio Rompineve , Jessie Yang

Boson stars, self-gravitating objects made of a complex scalar field, have been proposed as simple models for very different scenarios, ranging from galaxy dark matter to black hole mimickers. Here we focus on a very compact type of boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Miguel Bezares , Carlos Palenzuela , Carles Bona

Axionic dark matter can form structures known as miniclusters that host an axion star at their center. The axion star feeds on the host, and the axion star mass may grow beyond its stability limit, leading to a potential bosenova. Since a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Zihang Wang , Yu Gao

Baryon interactions with bosonic dark matter are constrained by the potential for dark matter-rich neutron stars to collapse into black holes. We consider the effect of dark matter self-interactions and dark matter annihilation on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-22 Joseph Bramante , Keita Fukushima , Jason Kumar

The Hawking evaporation of small black holes formed by the collapse of dark matter at the center of neutron stars plays a key role in loosing the constraint on the mass of asymmetric bosonic non-interacting dark matter particles. Different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-13 Yi-zhong Fan , Rui-zhi Yang , Jin Chang

Scalar fields can give rise to confined structures, such as boson stars or Q-balls. These objects are interesting hypothetical new "dark matter stars," but also good descriptions of dark matter haloes when the fields are ultralight. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Lorenzo Annulli , Vitor Cardoso , Rodrigo Vicente

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It has been shown that the equation of state and static…

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

If the dark matter particles are axions, gravity can cause them to coalesce into axion stars, which are stable gravitationally bound systems of axions. In the previously known solutions for axion stars, gravity and the attractive force…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-20 Eric Braaten , Abhishek Mohapatra , Hong Zhang

We consider galaxy halos formed by dark matter bosons with mass in the range of about a few tens or hundreds eV. A major part of the particles is in a noncondensed state and described under the Thomas-Fermi approach. Derived equations are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Iskander G. Abdullin , Vladimir A. Popov

Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of neutron stars to densities which are significantly higher than the density of ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment in which numerous particle processes - from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Fridolin Weber

We study a self-gravitating ultralight dark matter condensate (a boson star) hosting a central black hole, in the nonrelativistic limit, which we refer to as a boson star black hole (BS-BH) system. We numerically solve the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Amitayus Banik , Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

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 the feebly interacting dark matter with the Standard Model fields, where the preceding and the latter ones are the constituents of the bosonic cosmological objects, the scalar boson stars (BS). The scalar dark matter (SDM) massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 G. A. Kozlov

Compact objects, like neutron stars and white dwarfs, may accrete dark matter, and then be sensitive probes of its presence. These compact stars with a dark matter component can be modeled by a perfect fluid minimally coupled to a complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Carlos Palenzuela , Daniela Alic , L. Arturo Ureña-López

It has been argued that the existence of old neutron stars excludes the possibility of non-annihilating light bosonic dark matter, such as that arising in asymmetric dark matter scenarios. If non-annihilating dark matter is captured by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-12 Nicole F. Bell , Andrew Melatos , Kalliopi Petraki

We propose a model of asymmetric bosonic dark matter (DM) with self-repulsion mediated by the vector field coupled to the complex scalar particles. By adopting the two-fluid formalism, we study different DM distribution regimes, either,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência , Tim Dietrich

We investigate the structure and stability properties of compact astrophysical objects that may be formed from the Bose-Einstein condensation of dark matter. Once the critical temperature of a boson gas is less than the critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 X. Y. Li , T. Harko , K. S. Cheng

We study the gravitational effect of non-self-annihilating dark matter on compact stellar objects. The self-interaction of condensate dark matter can give high accretion rate of dark matter onto stars. Phase transition to condensation state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 Xinyu Li , Fayin Wang , K. S. Cheng

We investigate neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) merger candidates as a test for compact exotic objects. Using the events GW190814, GW200105 and GW200115 measured by the LIGO-Virgo collabration, which represent a broad profile of the masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Stephan Wystub , Yannick Dengler , Jan-Erik Christian , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Ultralight bosons such as axions and dark photons are well-motivated hypothetical particles, whose couplings to ordinary matter can be effectively constrained by stellar cooling. Limits on these interactions can be obtained by demanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhaoyu Bai , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen , Yuyan Li , Jamie I. McDonald , Hyeonseok Seong