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We study properties of boson stars consisting of ultra-light scalar dark matter with repulsive self-interactions. We investigate the origin of the maximum mass of spherically symmetric stable stars which emerges only when solving the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-17 Djuna Croon , JiJi Fan , Chen Sun

Corrections to general relativity that introduce long-ranged scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled to curvature typically predict that neutron stars possess a non-trivial scalar field profile. An observer far from a star is most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-18 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes

We show that minimal boson stars, i.e. boson stars made out of scalar fields without self-interaction, are always classically unstable in 5 space-time dimensions. This is true for the non-rotating as well as rotating case with two equal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We construct spherically symmetric boson star solutions in $D \in \{4,5,6\}$ spacetime dimensions, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction term and a solitonic potential. We then perform a perturbative analysis,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Gareth Arturo Marks , Abdullah Al Zaif

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

The current trend concerning dense matter physics at sufficiently high densities and low temperatures is expected to behave as a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks forming Cooper pairs, namely a color superconductor, in the core of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Takol Tangphati , Anirudh Pradhan , Ayan Banerjee , Grigoris Panotopoulos

We present new, fully nonlinear numerical solutions to the static, spherically symmetric Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a collection of an arbitrary odd number $N$ of complex scalar fields with an internal $U(N)$ symmetry and no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Dario Nunez , Olivier Sarbach

We study the transition of charged boson stars from sub- to super-criticality. This transition is defined as that choice of coupling constants for which the Coulomb repulsion of two individual bosons (that make up the star) exactly cancels…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

In the present work we have investigated a new anisotropic solution for polytropic star in the framework of $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. The possibility of determining the masses and radii of compact stars which puts some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Ksh. Newton Singh , S. K. Maurya , Piyali Bhar , Riju Nag

In this work we present some new results which we have obtained in a study of the phase diagram of charged compact boson stars in the theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

The boson star filled with two interacting scalar fields is investigated. The scalar fields can be considered as a gauge condensate formed by SU(3) gauge field quantized in a non-perturbative manner. The corresponding solution is regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Dzhunushaliev , K. Myrzakulov , R. Myrzakulov

A model of static boson-fermion star with spherical symmetry based on the scalar-tensor theory of gravity with massive dilaton field is investigated numerically. Since the radius of star is \textit{a priori} an unknown quantity, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 T. L. Boyadjiev , M. D. Todorov , P. P. Fiziev , S. S. Yazadjiev

Compact bosonic field configurations, or boson stars, are promising dark matter candidates which have been invoked as an alternative description for the supermassive compact objects in active galactic nuclei. Boson stars can be comparable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-26 Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Luís C. B. Crispino

We show that even a rather minimal extension of the Einstein - Hilbert action by a nonminimal coupling of the scalar field to the Ricci curvature scalar results in configurations that resemble more the dark energy stars then the ordinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-02 Dubravko Horvat , Anja Marunovic

We obtain a class of new anisotropic relativistic solution in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity with Finch-Skea metric in hydrostatic equilibrium. The relativistic solutions are employed to construct anisotropic stellar models for strange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Sagar Dey , Bikash Chandra Paul

In this paper, we present a solution for a five-dimensional boson star under gravity with infinite tower of higher curvature corrections. We discover that when the coupling constant exceeds a certain threshold, an alternative configuration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Tian-Xiang Ma , Yong-Qiang Wang

We study the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system coupled to the Born-Infeld electrodynamics. We explore the solution space of a static spherically symmetric, complex scalar field minimally coupled to both gravitational and electromagnetic fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Víctor Jaramillo , Daniel Martínez-Carbajal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Núñez

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 discuss neutron stars with strong magnetic mean fields in the framework of Extended Theories of Gravity. In particular, we take into account models derived from $f(R)$ and $f(\cal G)$ extensions of General Relativity where functions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Artyom V. Astashenok , Salvatore Capozziello , Sergei D. Odintsov

We explore whether supermassive non-baryonic stars (in particular boson, mini-boson and non-topological soliton stars) might be at the center of some galaxies, with special attention to the Milky Way. We analyze, from a dynamical point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Diego F. Torres , S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase