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The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

Since the derivation of a well-defined $D\rightarrow 4$ limit for 4 dimensional Einstein Gauss-Bonnet (4DEGB) gravity coupled to a scalar field, there has been interest in testing it as an alternative to Einstein's general theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Michael Gammon , Robert B. Mann , Sarah Rourke

In this work we study the boson stars and boson shells in a theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical potential in the presence of a cosmological constant ${\Lambda}$ which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

This paper is concerned with the construction and analysis of boson stars in the context of nonminimal derivative coupling theories. In particular we embed our model in the biscalar extension of Horndeski gravity, considering a scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 Yves Brihaye , Adolfo Cisterna , Cristián Erices

In this work, we have constructed anisotropic bosonic dark-matter star (DMS) solutions in the context of a regularized four-dimensional Einstein$-$Gauss$-$Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity theory. Using dimensional regularization, we solve modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Mohamamd Mazhari

We investigate static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity non-minimally coupled to a massless real scalar field, both in vacuum and in the presence of fermionic matter. Focusing on a specific quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Roberto D. Alba Q. , Javier Chagoya , Armando A. Roque

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

Light scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. The profile of boson stars in the Newtonian limit is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equations. We present a semi-analytic solution to these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-12 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman

We discuss boson stars and neutron stars, respectively, in a scalar-tensor gravity model with an explicitly time-dependent real scalar field. While the boson stars in our model -- in contrast to the neutron stars -- do not possess a hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu , B. Hartmann

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

We consider boson star solutions in a $D$-dimensional, asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime and investigate the influence of the cosmological term on their properties. We find that for $D>4$ the boson star properties are close to those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dumitru Astefanesei , Eugen Radu

We complete the analysis of part I in this series (Ref. \cite{Stotyn:2013yka}) by numerically constructing boson stars in 2+1 dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant, minimally coupled to a complex scalar field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-19 Sean Stotyn , Melanie Chanona , Robert B. Mann

In this paper, we treat 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity as general relativity with an effective stress-energy tensor. We will study the modified Oppenheimer-Snyder-Datt model of the gravitational collapse of a star in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 R. Hassannejad , A. Sadeghi , F. Shojai

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, 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

In this study we obtain interior solutions and investigate structural properties of isotropic compact stars in the framework of four-dimensional regularized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4DEGB) gravity. For stellar matter content, we adopt a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 G. Panotopoulos , Á. Rincón , I. Lopes

In the presence of appropriate non-minimal couplings between a scalar field and the curvature squared Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes (BHs) can spontaneously scalarize, becoming a preferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , D. H. Tchrakian

We study static, spherically symmetric, self-gravitating systems minimally coupled to a scalar field with U(1) gauge symmetry: charged boson stars. We find numerical solutions to the EinsteinMaxwell equations coupled to the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-05 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo , Jorge A. Rueda H. , Remo Ruffini

Boson stars are often described as macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates. By accommodating large numbers of bosons in the same quantum state, they materialize macroscopically the intangible probability density cloud of a single particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

We present Jordan-Brans-Dicke and general scalar-tensor gravitational theory in extra dimensions in an asymptotically flat or anti de Sitter spacetime. We consider a special gravitating, boson field configuration, a $q$-star, in 3, 4, 5 and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Athanasios Prikas