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We review particle-like configurations of complex scalar field, localized by gravity, so-called boson stars. In the simplest case, these solutions posses spherical symmetry, they may arise in the massive Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-14 Yakov Shnir

$\ell$-boson stars are static, spherical, multi-field self-gravitating solitons. They are asymptotically flat, finite energy solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an odd number of massive, complex scalar fields. A previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Víctor Jaramillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , Darío Núñez

There is accumulating evidence that (fundamental) scalar fields may exist in Nature. The gravitational collapse of such a boson cloud would lead to a boson star (BS) as a new type of a compact object. Similarly as for white dwarfs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Franz E. Schunck , Eckehard W. Mielke

We discuss spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a real scalar field with a mass and a quartic self-interaction term. As for the massless case the solutions have a naked singularity at the origin.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jetzer , David Scialom

Spinning bosonic stars (SBSs) can form from the gravitational collapse of a dilute cloud of scalar/Proca particles with non-zero angular momentum. In a recent work we found that the scalar stars are transient due to a non-axisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Miguel Zilhão , Carlos Herdeiro , José A. Font , Eugen Radu

We present new, fully nonlinear numerical solutions to the static, spherically symmetric Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a collection of an arbitrary odd number $N$ of complex scalar fields with an internal $U(N)$ symmetry and no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Dario Nunez , Olivier Sarbach

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

The Klein-Gordon-Einstein equations of classical real scalar fields have time-dependent solutions (periodic in time). We show that quantum real scalar fields can form non-oscillating (static) solitonic objects, which are quite similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeongwon Ho , F. C. Khanna , Chul H. Lee

Motivated by the increasing interest in models which consider scalar fields as viable dark matter candidates, we have constructed a generalization of relativistic Boson Stars (BS) composed of two coexisting states of the scalar field, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Argelia Bernal , Juan Barranco , Daniela Alic , Carlos Palenzuela

In previous work, we have found new static, spherically symmetric boson star solutions which generalize the standard boson stars by allowing a particular superposition of scalar fields in which each of the fields is characterized by a fixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

We consider compact boson stars that arise for a V-shaped scalar field potential. They represent a one parameter family of solutions of the scaled Einstein-signum-Gordon equations. We analyze the physical properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

We make a detailed study of boson star configurations in Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory, studying both equilibrium properties and stability, and considering boson stars existing at different cosmic epochs. We show that boson stars can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Diego F Torres , Franz E Schunck , Andrew R Liddle

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

Vector boson stars, also known as Proca stars, exhibit remarkable dynamical robustness, making them strong candidates for potential astrophysical exotic compact objects. In search of theoretically well-motivated Proca star models, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Claudio Lazarte , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Miguel Alcubierre

Boson stars in zero-, one-, and two-node equilibrium states are modeled numerically within the framework of Scalar-Tensor Gravity. The complex scalar field is taken to be both massive and self-interacting. Configurations are formed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Comer , Hisa-aki Shinkai

We establish that massive complex Abelian vector fields (mass $\mu$) can form gravitating solitons, when minimally coupled to Einstein's gravity. Such Proca stars (PSs) have a stationary, everywhere regular and asymptotically flat geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-15 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We study numerically the nonlinear stability of {\it excited} fermion-boson stars in spherical symmetry. Such compound hypothetical stars, composed by fermions and bosons, are gravitationally bound, regular, and static configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We construct boson star configurations in quantum field theory using the semiclassical gravity approximation. Restricting our attention to the static case, we show that the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a {\it single real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

We study the dynamics of a self-gravitating scalar field solitonic object (boson star) in the Jordan-Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity. We show dynamical processes of this system such as (i) black hole formation of perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jayashree Balakrishna , Hisa-aki Shinkai

Scalar, spherically symmetric, radially excited boson stars were previously shown to be stabilized, against spherical dynamics, by sufficiently strong self-interactions. Here, we further test their stability now in a full 3+1D evolution. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão
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