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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

Initially applied to the scalar case, we extend the applicability of the multi-field generalization with angular momentum of bosonic stars to the vector case, in order to obtain new configurations that generalize the one-field spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Claudio Lazarte , Miguel Alcubierre

We present new spherically symmetric solutions of an SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills model coupled to a doublet of scalar fields. Sequences of asymptotically flat, Yang-Mills-boson star-type configurations are constructed numerically by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann , Eugen Radu

Gravitationally bound structures composed by fermions and scalar particles known as fermion-boson stars are regular and static configurations obtained by solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Euler (EKGE) system. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We have developed a highly accurate numerical code capable of solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon system, in order to construct rotating boson stars in general relativity. Free fields and self-interacting fields, with quartic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-29 Philippe Grandclement , Claire Somé , Eric Gourgoulhon

In previous work, we introduced the $\ell$-boson stars, a generalization of standard boson stars, which are parameterized by an angular momentum number $\ell$, while still preserving the spacetime's spherical symmetry. In this article, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Miguel Megevand

Boson Stars are stationary, axially symmetric solutions of a complex scalar field theory coupled to gravity. Recently, multi-solitonic configurations interpreted as static chains of multiple Boson Stars bound by gravity and carrying no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Romain Gervalle

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

We solve Einstein equations coupled to a complex scalar field with infinitely large self-interaction, degenerate fermions, and a negative cosmological constant in $(2+1)$ dimensions. Exact solutions for static boson-fermion stars are found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We study the time evolution of spherical, excited -- with $n$ radial nodes -- scalar boson stars in General Relativity minimally coupled to a complex massive scalar field with quartic self-interactions. We report that these stars, with up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão

We study axially symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations describing spinning gauged boson stars in a 3+1 dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetime. These smooth horizonless solutions possess an electric charge and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Olga Kichakova , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

It has been shown that scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. In this study, we analyze boson star configurations where the scalar fields contain a small amount of angular momentum and find two new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman , Freida Liz Rivera

We present new spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations in a quasi-stationary approximation that describe self-gravitating scalar field configurations around a black hole, including angular momentum number…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Dario Nunez , Olivier Sarbach

In this paper, we re-investigate the stationary, soliton-like solutions in the model of the Einstein gravity coupled to a free and complex scalar field, which have been known as mini-boson stars. With numerical method, we find that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Shi-Xian Sun , Yong-Qiang Wang , Li Zhao

We study numerically the nonlinear stability of {\it excited} fermion-boson stars in spherical symmetry. Such compound hypothetical stars, composed by fermions and bosons, are gravitationally bound, regular, and static configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We examined the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics framework that asymptotically supports a Hayward spacetime. We explored the solution space of a static spherically symmetric, complex scalar field minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Sebastian S. Chicaiza-Medina , Juan Carlos Degollado

We study exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

The study of the properties and dynamics of self-gravitating bosonic objects in Einstein gravity was conducted. We studied self-coupled boson stars and determined the quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies of stable boson stars in spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jayashree Balakrishna

We consider again stationary solutions to the spherically symmetric Einstein--Maxwell--Klein--Gordon system, commonly known as ``charged boson stars'', originally studied by Jetzer and Van Der Bij. We construct families of charged boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 José Damián López , Miguel Alcubierre

Gauged boson stars are exotic compact objects that can potentially mimic black holes or magnetized neutron stars in both their gravitational and electromagnetic signatures, offering a compelling new description or even an alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Víctor Jaramillo , Darío Núñez , Milton Ruiz , Miguel Zilhão