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We study static, spherically symmetric, self-gravitating systems minimally coupled to a scalar field with U(1) gauge symmetry: charged boson stars. We find numerical solutions to the EinsteinMaxwell equations coupled to the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-05 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo , Jorge A. Rueda H. , Remo Ruffini

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 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

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 the spontaneous scalarization of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat boson stars in the $(\alpha {\cal R} + \gamma {\cal G}) \phi^2$ scalar-tensor gravity model. These compact objects are made of a complex valued scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

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

We study the stability of rotating scalar boson stars, comparing those made from a simple massive complex scalar (referred to as mini boson stars), to those with several different types of nonlinear interactions. To that end, we numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

Boson stars are often described as macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates. By accommodating large numbers of bosons in the same quantum state, they materialize macroscopically the intangible probability density cloud of a single particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

We present a class of general relativistic soliton-like solutions composed of multiple minimally coupled, massive, real scalar fields which interact only through the gravitational field. We describe a two-parameter family of solutions we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

In $3+1$ dimensions, we study the stability of Kasner solutions for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field-Vlasov system. This system incorporates gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions for the initial stage of our universe. Due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Dawei Shen

Initially applied to the scalar case, we extend the applicability of the multi-field generalization with angular momentum of bosonic stars to the vector case, in order to obtain new configurations that generalize the one-field spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Claudio Lazarte , Miguel Alcubierre

Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu Miyauchi , Takahiro Tanaka

Gauged boson stars are exotic compact objects that can potentially mimic black holes or magnetized neutron stars in both their gravitational and electromagnetic signatures, offering a compelling new description or even an alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Víctor Jaramillo , Darío Núñez , Milton Ruiz , Miguel Zilhão

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 phenomenological features and stability of boson stars in massless and massive scalar-tensor theory of gravity with Damour-Esposito-Farese coupling. This coupling between the tensor and scalar sectors of the theory leads to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Tamara Evstafyeva , Roxana Rosca-Mead , Ulrich Sperhake , Bernd Brugmann

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

This paper investigates chains of rotating boson stars (BSs) within Einstein gravity coupled to a complex scalar field. The model incorporates quartic or sextic self-interactions in the scalar Lagrangian, which support the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Ran Sun , Jing-Kang Bin , Li Zhao

We construct static axisymmetric multisolitons in the Einstein-Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin model. This theory features a complex scalar field which gains mass through its interaction with a real scalar field that has a non-zero vacuum expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-15 Víctor Jaramillo , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We perform numerical evolutions of the fully non-linear Einstein-(complex, massive)Klein-Gordon and Einstein-(complex)Proca systems, to assess the formation and stability of spinning bosonic stars. In the scalar/vector case these are known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 N. Sanchis-Gual , F. Di Giovanni , M. Zilhão , C. Herdeiro , P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font , E. Radu

In this paper, we re-investigate the stationary, soliton-like solutions in the model of the Einstein gravity coupled to a free and complex scalar field, which have been known as mini-boson stars. With numerical method, we find that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Shi-Xian Sun , Yong-Qiang Wang , Li Zhao