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Unless some unknown symmetry in Nature prevents or suppresses a non-minimal coupling in the dark sector, the dark energy field may interact with the pressureless component of dark matter. In this paper, we investigate some cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 F. E. M. Costa , E. M. Barboza , J. S. Alcaniz

Large light deflection angles are produced in the strong gravitational field regions around neutron stars and black holes. In the case of binary systems, part of the photons emitted from the companion star towards the collapsed object are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Campana , A. Parodi , L. Stella

We examine the motion of a photon in the gravitational field of a binary system. The equations of motion are geodesic equations in a Schwarzchild background with a tidal force. We specialize the equations to that of an edge-on binary and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nahid Ahmadi , Zainab Sedaghatmanesh

Scalar fields appear in many cosmological models, in particular in order to provide explanations for dark energy and inflation, but also to emulate dark matter. In this paper, we show that it is possible for a scalar field to replace…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. Arbey , J. -F. Coupechoux

Disformally coupled, light scalar fields arise in many of the theories of dark energy and modified gravity that attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. They have proved difficult to constrain with precision tests of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Philippe Brax , Clare Burrage , Christoph Englert

In this work we consider a dark matter candidate described by an ultralight vector field, whose mass is in principle in the range $H_{\rm{eq}}\sim 10^{-28}\rm{eV}\ll m< \rm{eV}$. The homogeneous background vector field is assumed to point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Matías Leizerovich , Diana López Nacir , Susana Landau

Oscillons are spatially localized, time-periodic and long-lived configurations that were primarily proposed in scalar field theories with attractive self-interactions. In this letter, we demonstrate that oscillons also exist in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Hong-Yi Zhang , Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin

The Scalar Field Dark Matter model has been known in various ways throughout its history; Fuzzy, BEC, Wave, Ultralight, Axion-like Dark Matter, etc. All of them consist in proposing that the dark matter of the universe is a spinless field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Tonatiuh Matos , Luis A. Ureña-López , Jae-Weon Lee

One of the main problems in Particle Physics is to understand the origin and nature of Dark Matter. An exciting possibility is to consider that the Dark Matter belongs to a new complex but hidden sector. In this paper, we assume the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-24 Constanza Callender , Alfonso R. Zerwekh

Bouncing cosmologies, while offering a compelling alternative to inflationary models, face challenges from the growth of vector perturbations during the contracting phase. While linear vector instabilities can be avoided with specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Mian Zhu , Chao Chen

I discuss the effect of physical distortion on the velocities of close binary components and how we may use the resulting distortion of velocity curves to constrain some properties of binary systems, such as inclination and mass ratio.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel A. Eaton

We consider vacuum polarization effect of a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the background produced by an idealized straight cosmic string. Using previous criterion we show the calculation of back reaction of the field to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Chung-I Kuo

In this paper, we discuss a possibility of studying properties of dark energy in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We consider two types of models of neutrino dark energy. For one type of models the scalar field is taken to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-31 Pei-Hong Gu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Bo Feng , Bing-Lin Young , Xinmin Zhang

This paper considers general relativistic (GR) effects in currently observed extrasolar planetary systems. Although GR corrections are small, they can compete with secular interactions in these systems and thereby play an important role.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fred C. Adams , Gregory Laughlin

We investigate and compare two simple models of dark matter (DM): a vector and a scalar DM model. Both models require the presence of two physical Higgs bosons $h_1$ and $h_2$ which come from mixed components of the standard Higgs doublet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Duarte Azevedo , Mateusz Duch , Bohdan Grzadkowski , Da Huang , Michal Iglicki , Rui Santos

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, exhibits intricate wave phenomena on galactic scales. Compared to cold dark matter, FDM simulations are significantly more computationally demanding due to the need to resolve the de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hsi-Yu Schive

We show that the present dark matter abundance can be accounted for by an oscillating scalar field that acquires both mass and a non-zero expectation value from interactions with the Higgs field. The dark matter scalar field can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-03 Catarina Cosme , João G. Rosa , O. Bertolami

The orbital period loss of the compact binary systems is the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves which agrees well with Einstein's general theory of relativity to a very good accuracy. However, there is less than one percent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Tanmay Kumar Poddar

The discovery of the accelerating universe indicates strongly the presence of a scalar field which is not only expected to solve today's version of the cosmological constant problem, or the fine-tuning and the coincidence problems, but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-24 Yasunori Fujii , Kensuke Homma

We investigate a scalar-vector-tensor theory in which matter is minimally coupled to a Jordan-frame metric, while a massive vector sector interacts with the baryonic current. We show that the conformal scalar coupling modifies the physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Kimet Jusufi , Amir A. Khodahami , Ahmad Sheykhi , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis