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Boson Stars are macroscopic self-gravitating configurations made of complex scalar fields. These exotic compact objects would manifest as dark Boson stars and, in the absence of electromagnetic signatures, could mimic properties of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It has been shown that the equation of state and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

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

Gravitational wave astronomy might allow us to detect the coalescence of low-brightness astrophysical compact objects which are extremely difficult to be observed with current electromagnetic telescopes. Besides classical sources like black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Miguel Bezares , Carlos Palenzuela

Fluid and ultralight bosonic dark matter can interact through gravity to form stable fermion-boson stars, which are static and regular mixed solutions of the Einstein-Euler-(complex, massive) Klein-Gordon system. In this work we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Paula Izquierdo

Scalar fields can give rise to confined structures, such as boson stars or Q-balls. These objects are interesting hypothetical new "dark matter stars," but also good descriptions of dark matter haloes when the fields are ultralight. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Lorenzo Annulli , Vitor Cardoso , Rodrigo Vicente

We investigate quartically self-interacting massive boson stars by constructing equilibrium sequences and performing dynamical evolutions. The mass curve $M(|\phi_c|)$ along these sequences develops multiple extrema, yet stability changes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Bo-Xuan Ge

Rotating fermion-boson stars are hypothetical celestial objects that consist of both fermionic and bosonic matter interacting exclusively through gravity. Bosonic fields are believed to arise in certain models of particle physics describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Christoph Adam , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

We study novel solitonic solutions to Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory in the presence of a periodic scalar potential arising in models of axion-like particles. The potential depends on two parameters: the mass of the scalar field $m_a$ and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Davide Guerra , Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani

We study charged boson stars in scalar-tensor (ST) gravitational theories. We analyse the weak field limit of the solutions and analytically show that there is a maximum charge to mass ratio for the bosons above which the weak field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 A. W. Whinnett , Diego F. Torres

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 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 study the feebly interacting dark matter with the Standard Model fields, where the preceding and the latter ones are the constituents of the bosonic cosmological objects, the scalar boson stars (BS). The scalar dark matter (SDM) massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 G. A. Kozlov

Boson stars are gravitationally bound objects that arise in ultralight dark matter models and form in the centers of galactic halos or axion miniclusters. We systematically study the excitations of a boson star, taking into account the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 James Hung-Hsu Chan , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

We provide a detailed analysis of how bosonic dark matter "condensates" interact with compact stars, extending significantly the results of a recent Letter. We focus on bosonic fields with mass $m_B$, such as axions, axion-like candidates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Hirotada Okawa , Carlos Palenzuela

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

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

Solitonic boson stars are stable objects made of a complex scalar field with a compactness that can reach values comparable to that of neutron stars. A recent study of the collision of identical boson stars produced only non-rotating boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Miguel Bezares , Vitor Cardoso , Luis Lehner , Steven Liebling

We study, for the first time, the evolution of a scalar cloud bound to an evaporating black hole. Our simulations of the associated Schr\"odinger-Poisson system for non-relativistic and spherically symmetric clouds reveal that a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Daniel Neves , João G. Rosa

Compact objects, like neutron stars and white dwarfs, may accrete dark matter, and then be sensitive probes of its presence. These compact stars with a dark matter component can be modeled by a perfect fluid minimally coupled to a complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Carlos Palenzuela , Daniela Alic , L. Arturo Ureña-López