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Boson stars are self-gravitating solutions made entirely of fundamental massive bosonic fields. Here we investigate mini boson stars in $D$ non-compact spacetime dimensions and we show that they are dynamically unstable for $D>4$.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Edgardo Franzin

An exact solution for a nonrotating boson star in (2+1) dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant is found. The relations among mass, particle number, and radius of the (2+1) dimensional boson star are shown.

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

We propose that stable boson stars generically fall within an infinite-parameter family of solutions that oscillate on any number of non-commensurate frequencies. We numerically construct two-frequency solutions and explore their parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Choptuik , Ramon Masachs , Benson Way

In this paper we consider a Vlasov or collisionless Boltzmann equation describing the dynamics of planetary rings. We propose a simple physical model, where the particles of the rings move under the gravitational Newtonian potential of two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Armando Majorana

We perform a detailed analysis of the fundamental $f$-mode frequencies and damping times of nonrotating boson stars in general relativity by solving the nonradial perturbation equations. Two parameters which govern the microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 C. Vásquez Flores , Alessandro Parisi , Chian-Shu Chen , Germán Lugones

In this work we present some new results obtained in a study of the phase diagram of charged compact boson stars in a theory involving a complex scalar field with a conical potential coupled to a U(1) gauge field and gravity. We here obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz

We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Tamara Evstafyeva , Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

In this paper, we study the circular orbit of the spinning test particle in the background of a rotating boson star. Using the pole-dipole approximation and neglecting the back-reaction of the spinning test particle on the spacetime, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yan-Bo Zeng , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We numerically solve the mass-less test scalar field equation on the space-time background of boson stars and black holes. In order to do so, we use a numerical domain that contains future null infinity. We achieve this construction using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-08-12 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. S. Guzmán

We compute the lowest frequency radial oscillation modes of boson stars. It is assumed that the object is made of pseudo-Goldstone bosons subjected to a scalar potential that leads to a repulsive self-interaction force, and which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-15 Ilídio Lopes , Grigoris Panotopoulos

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

A code to evolve boson stars in 3D is presented as the starting point for the evolution of scalar field systems with arbitrary symmetries. It was possible to reproduce the known results related to perturbations discovered with 1D numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Siddhartha Guzman

We study solutions close to solitary waves of the pseudo-relativistic Hartree equation describing boson stars under the influence of an external gravitational field. In particular, we analyze the long-time effective dynamics of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juerg Froehlich , B. Lars G. Jonsson , Enno Lenzmann

In this work we present some new results which we have obtained in a study of the phase diagram of charged compact boson stars in the theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We construct axially symmetric, rotating boson stars with positive and negative parity. Their flat space limits represent spinning Q-balls. $Q$-balls and boson stars exist only in a limited frequency range. The coupling to gravity gives…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Meike List , Isabell Schaffer

In previous work we constructed new boson star solutions consisting of a family of massive complex scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity in which the individual fields have angular momentum, yet the configuration as a whole is static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

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 solutions for boson stars in multiscalar theory. We start with simple models with N scalar theories. Our purpose is to study the models in which the mass matrix of scalars and the scalar couplings are given by an extended method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

Using direct methods of the calculus of variations we establish the existence of an infinite class of spherically-symmetric solutions to the multi-field Schr\"odinger-Poisson system. This is achieved by proving that the energy functional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Emmanuel Chávez Nambo , Olivier Sarbach

We study solutions for boson stars in the multi-scalar field theory with global symmetry $[U(1)]^N$. The properties of the boson stars are investigated by the Newtonian approximation with the large coupling limit. Our purpose is to study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi