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We present a study of black hole threshold phenomena for a self-gravitating, massive complex scalar field in spherical symmetry. We construct Type I critical solutions dynamically by tuning a one-parameter family of initial data composed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

It was recently shown, that in a class of tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravity with a nontrivial target space metric, there exist scalarized neutron star solutions. An important property of these compact objects is that the scalar charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Hao-Jui Kuan , Jasbir Singh , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas

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

Recently, spherical and static flat space solitons (balls) and self-gravitating, everywhere regular, asymptotically flat solitons (stars) were constructed in an Einstein-Proca-Higgs model [1], where a complex vector field gains mass by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-07 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho

We present a systematic study of the dynamics and gravitational-wave emission of head-on collisions of spinning vector boson stars, known as Proca stars. To this aim we build a catalogue of about 800 numerical-relativity simulations of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , José A. Font , Samson H. W. Leong , Alejandro Torres-Forné

The beyond-generalized Proca theories are the extension of second-order massive vector-tensor theories (dubbed generalized Proca theories) with two transverse vector modes and one longitudinal scalar besides two tensor polarizations. Even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-11 Shintaro Nakamura , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

We consider the global cosmological evolution and the evolution of the density contrast in the Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter model, in the framework of a Post-Newtonian cosmological approach. In the Bose-Einstein model, dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Harko

The present work investigates the numerical evolution of linearized oscillations of non-rotating, spherically symmetric neutron stars within the framework of general relativity. We derive the appropriate equations using the (3+1)-formalism.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Johannes Ruoff

We study the stability of ultracompact boson stars admitting light rings combining a perturbative analysis with 3+1 numerical-relativity simulations with and without symmetry assumptions. We observe excellent agreement between all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Gareth Arturo Marks , Seppe J. Staelens , Tamara Evstafyeva , Ulrich Sperhake

We study the dynamics of a self-gravitating scalar field solitonic object (boson star) in the Jordan-Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity. We show dynamical processes of this system such as (i) black hole formation of perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jayashree Balakrishna , Hisa-aki Shinkai

We present results from a study of Type I critical phenomena in the dynamics of general relativistic boson stars in spherical symmetry. The boson stars are modelled with a minimally coupled, massive complex field (with no explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-05 Chi Wai Lai , Matthew W. Choptuik

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

The aim of this paper is to study the stability of soliton-like static solutions via non-linear simulations in the context of a special class of massive tensor-multi-scalar-theories of gravity whose target space metric admits Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Riccardo Falcone , Daniela D. Doneva , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Scalar bosonic stars (BSs) stand out as a multi-purpose model of exotic compact objects. We enlarge the landscape of such (asymptotically flat, stationary, everywhere regular) objects by considering multiple fields (possibly) with different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-23 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , José A. Font

Ultracompact spinning horizonless spacetimes with ergoregions are subject to the ergoregion instability. We systematically investigate the instability of a massless scalar field in a variety of rapidly spinning Proca stars and boson stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Nils Siemonsen

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

Recently, static and spherically symmetric configurations of globally regular self-gravitating scalar solitons were found. These configurations are unstable with respect to radial linear perturbations. In this paper we study the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Miguel Alcubierre , Jose A. Gonzalez , Marcelo Salgado

We consider compact boson stars that arise for a V-shaped scalar field potential. They represent a one parameter family of solutions of the scaled Einstein-signum-Gordon equations. We analyze the physical properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

X-ray reflection spectroscopy can be a powerful tool to test the nature of astrophysical black holes. Extending previous work on Kerr black holes with scalar hair [1] and on boson stars [2], here we study whether astrophysical black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-14 Tianling Shen , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

With exact three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport, we simulate the stellar core collapse, bounce, and postbounce evolution of a 13 solar mass star in spherical symmetry, the Newtonian limit, without invoking convection. In the absence of…