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Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to free, massive, classical fundamental fields admits particle-like solutions. These are asymptotically flat, everywhere non-singular configurations that realise Wheeler's concept of a geon: a localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Herdeiro , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

We construct and explore the solution space of two non-spinning, mini-boson stars in equilibrium, in fully non-linear General Relativity (GR), minimally coupled to a free, massive, complex scalar field. The equilibrium is due to the balance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 P. Cunha , C. Herdeiro , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

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

The discovery of a 2 Msun neutron star provided a robust constraint for the theory of exotic dense matter, bringing into question the existence of strange baryons in the interiors of neutron stars. Although many theories fail to reproduce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 M. Bejger

Boson stars represent a hypothetical exotic type of compact stellar object that may be observed from the gravitational signal of coalescing binaries in current and future GW detectors. In this work we show that the moment of inertia $I$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Miguel Huidobro , Ricardo Vázquez , Andrzej Wereszczynski

Rotating relativistic stars have been studied extensively in recent years, both theoretically and observationally, because of the information they might yield about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 Vasileios Paschalidis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The present surge for the astrophysical relevance of boson stars stems from the speculative possibility that these compact objects could provide a considerable fraction of the non-baryonic part of dark matter within the halo of galaxies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck

Models of relativistic rotating neutron star composed of hyperon rich matter is constructed in the framework of an effective field theory in the mean-field approach. The gross properties of compact star is calculated at both static and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 B. K. Sharma , T. K. Jha

Static, spherically symmetric solutions with regular origin are investigated of the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant $\Lambda$. A combination of numerical and analytical methods leads to a clear picture of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Breitenlohner , Dieter Maison , George Lavrelashvili

Bosonic stars represent a hypothetical exotic type of compact stellar objects that could be observed from the gravitational signal of coalescing binaries in current and future gravitational wave detectors. There are two main families of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Andrzej Wereszczynski

Solutions for rotating boson stars in (2+1) dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant are obtained numerically. The mass, particle number, and radius of the (2+1) dimensional rotating boson star are shown. Consequently we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We study charged and rotating boson stars in 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell(-Chern-Simons) theory assuming the two angular momenta associated to the two orthogonal planes of rotation to be equal. Next to the angular momenta, the boson stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Solitonic boson stars (SBS) are compact shell-like objects with an inside having a nearly constant value of scalar field bounded by a thin shell where the scalar field rapidly changes. While the spherically symmetric SBS can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Nikolay Sukhov

Axion stars are hypothetical objects formed of axions, obtained as localized and coherently oscillating solutions to their classical equation of motion. Depending on the value of the field amplitude at the core $|\theta_0| \equiv…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Luca Visinelli , Sebastian Baum , Javier Redondo , Katherine Freese , Frank Wilczek

Light bosonic fields may suffer an instability around a rotating compact object. This process, known as superradiance, leads to the exponential amplification of the field around a black hole or neutron star, while the spin of the central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Francesca Chadha-Day

The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

This work is devoted to the study of photon trajectories around rotating boson stars. The basic properties of boson star models are given with a particular emphasis on the high compactness those objects can have. Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Philippe Grandclément

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 consider the slowly rotating relativistic stars with a uniform angular velocity in the scalar-tensor gravity, and examine the rotational effect around such compact objects. For this purpose, we derive a 2nd order differential equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hajime Sotani

We consider the four-dimensional Einstein-Klein-Gordon-AdS system with conformal mass subject to the Robin boundary conditions at infinity. Above a critical value of the Robin parameter, at which the AdS spacetime goes linearly unstable, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Piotr Bizoń , Dominika Hunik-Kostyra , Maciej Maliborski