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This study investigates the optical imaging characteristics of massive boson stars based on a model with Einstein's nonlinear electrodynamics. Under asymptotically flat boundary conditions, the field equations are solved numerically to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Huan Ye , Ke-Jian He , Hao Yu

We analyze the dynamics of a gravitational bounded cloud of generic bosons or a boson star in the non-relativistic regime, assuming from the very beginning that the boson star is in a Bose-Einstein condensed state. Also, we have taken into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Jorge Mastache , Elías Castellanos , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta

In this paper, based on the action of a complex scalar field minimally coupled to a gravitational field, we numerically obtain a series of massive boson star solutions in a spherically symmetric background with a quartic-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Guo-Ping Li , Meng-Qi Wu , Ke-Jian He , Qing-Quan Jiang

Axions and axion-like particles are a leading model for the dark matter in the Universe; therefore, dark matter halos may be boson stars in the process of collapsing. We examine a class of static boson stars with a non-minimal coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jeremy Heyl , Matthew W. Choptuik , David Shinkaruk

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

Boson stars are stationary soliton-like gravitational configurations supported by a complex scalar field charged under the global $U(1)$ symmetry. We discuss properties of boson stars in type IIB supergravity approximation to string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Alex Buchel

Boson stars are descendants of the so-called geons of Wheeler, except that they are built from scalar particles instead of electromagnetic fields. If scalar fields exist in nature, such localized configurations kept together by their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck

We present spherically symmetric boson stars as black hole mimickers based on the power spectrum of a simple accretion disk model. The free parameters of the boson star are the mass of the boson and the fourth order self-interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-23 F. S. Guzman , J. M. Rueda-Becerril

In the present work, we analyze the structural configuration of a collection of generic non-relativistic bosons forming a gravitational bound Bose-Einstein condensate that we interpreted as a non-relativistic boson star. We prove that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-08 Elías Castellanos , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Jorge Mastache

Boson stars are considered as promising candidates for black hole mimickers. Similar to other compact objects they can form accretion disks around them. The properties of these disks could possibly distinguish them from other compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Kristian Gjorgjieski , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova

The status of boson stars as black hole mimickers is presented. We focus on the analysis of the emission spectrum of a simple accretion disk model. We describe the free parameters that allow a boson star to become a black hole mimicker and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-27 F. S. Guzman

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

Different types of gravitating compact objects occuring in d=5 space-time are considered: boson stars, hairy black holes and perfect fluid solutions. All these solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to matter have well established…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. Brihaye , T. Delsate

Many gravitational phenomena that lie at the core of our understanding of the Universe have not yet been directly observed. An example in this sense is the boson star that has been proposed as an alternative to some compact objects…

Anisotropic stresses are ubiquitous in nature, but their modeling in General Relativity is poorly understood and frame dependent. We introduce the first study on the dynamical properties of anisotropic self-gravitating fluids in a covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Guilherme Raposo , Paolo Pani , Miguel Bezares , Carlos Palenzuela , Vitor Cardoso

A simple model to study boson stars is to consider these stellar objects as quantum systems of $N$ identical self-gravitating particles within a non-relativistic framework. Some results obtained with point-like particles are recalled as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-25 C. Semay

A new class of complex scalar field objects, which generalize the well known boson stars, was recently found as solutions to the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system. The generalization consists in incorporating some of the effects of angular…

Boson stars represent a hypothetical exotic type of compact stellar object that may be observed from the gravitational signal of coalescing binaries in current and future GW detectors. In this work we show that the moment of inertia $I$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Miguel Huidobro , Ricardo Vázquez , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We construct boson stars in (4+1)-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We study the properties of the solutions in dependence on the coupling constants and investigate these in detail. While the "thick wall" limit is independent of the value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Betti Hartmann , Juergen Riedel , Raluca Suciu

Observations of the Sgr A* region in the galactic center confirm the presence of a large amount of matter in a small volume, leading to the consensus that a black hole exists there. However, dynamical observations cannot rule out the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Amitai Y. Bin-Nun