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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

In this manuscript the three types of late-time behavior of spherically symmetric Boson Stars are presented, these are: stable configurations, unstable bounded that collapse to form black holes and unstable unbounded that explode. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 F. S. Guzman

We present compact Q-balls in an (Anti-)de Sitter background in D dimensions, obtained with a V-shaped potential of the scalar field. Beyond critical values of the cosmological constant compact Q-shells arise. By including the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

Boson stars are descendants of the so-called geons of Wheeler, except that they are built from scalar particles instead of electromagnetic fields. If scalar fields exist in nature, such localized configurations kept together by their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck

Axisymmetric rotating radially excited boson stars are analyzed. For several fixed parameter sets, the full sets of solutions are obtained. In contrast to the nodeless boson stars, the radially excited sets of solutions do not exhibit a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Lucas G. Collodel , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

It is a well-known fact that compact gravitating objects admit bound state configurations for massive bosonic fields. In this work we describe a new class of superradiant instabilities of axion bound states in neutron star magnetospheres.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 Francesca V. Day , Jamie I. McDonald

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

Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Miguel Bezares , Mateja Bošković , Steven Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Enrico Barausse

Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao

We solve numerically a field equation of axions coupled with gravity and show solutions representing oscillating axionic boson stars with small mass $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ and large radius $\sim 10^{8}$ cm. We present explicitly a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Aiichi Iwazaki

We investigate boson stars in an $O(3)$ scalar field theory with a symmetry-breaking potential. By constructing numerically spherically symmetric solutions, we demonstrate that the model gives rise to a rich set of field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jutta Kunz , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk , Yakov Shnir

Axion stars, gravitationally bound states of low-energy axion particles, have a maximum mass allowed by gravitational stability. Weakly bound states obtaining this maximum mass have sufficiently large radii such that they are dilute, and as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Joshua Eby , Madelyn Leembruggen , Peter Suranyi , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

We study axially symmetric multi-soliton solutions of a complex scalar field theory with a sextic potential, minimally coupled to Einstein's gravity. These solutions carry no angular momentum and can be classified by the number of nodes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Y. Shnir

We present solutions to the Einstein-Klein Gordon system representing boson stars in the slow rotation approximation. By considering slow rotation we are able to reduce the number of equations yielding a system of ordinary differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Juan Carlos Degollado , Luis E. Martínez , Marcelo Salgado

We investigate the viability of a new type of compact star whose main constituent is a Bose-Einstein condensate of charged pions. Several different setups are considered, where a gas of charged leptons and neutrinos is also present. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Bastian B. Brandt , Gergely Endrodi , Eduardo S. Fraga , Mauricio Hippert , Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich , Sebastian Schmalzbauer

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

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

We discuss boson stars and neutron stars, respectively, in a scalar-tensor gravity model with an explicitly time-dependent real scalar field. While the boson stars in our model -- in contrast to the neutron stars -- do not possess a hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu , B. Hartmann

We consider a model with two real Maxwell fields (or equivalently, a complex Maxwell field) minimally coupled to Einsteins gravity with a negative cosmological constant in four spacetime dimensions. Assuming a specific harmonic dependence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Carlos Herdeiro , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

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