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Equilibria of binary neutron stars in close circular orbits are computed numerically in a waveless formulation: The full Einstein-relativistic-Euler system is solved on an initial hypersurface to obtain an asymptotically flat form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Koji Uryu , Francois Limousin , John L. Friedman , Eric Gourgoulhon , Masaru Shibata

We study the interaction of massless scalar fields with self-gravitating neutron stars by means of fully dynamic numerical simulations of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon perfect fluid system. Our investigation is restricted to spherical symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Siebel , Jose A. Font , Philippos Papadopoulos

We investigate the oscillation spectrum of rotating Newtonian neutron stars endowed with purely toroidal magnetic fields, using a time evolution code to evolve linear perturbations in the Cowling approximation. The background star is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 S. K. Lander , D. I. Jones , A. Passamonti

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

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It has been shown that the equation of state and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We investigate the possibility of global cosmic rotation using a G\"odel-type rotating cosmological model, constrained through a cosmographic analysis of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) from the Pantheon+ dataset. Employing a Taylor-expanded…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Anshul Verma , Pavan K. Aluri , David F. Mota , Yuri N. Obukhov

We study boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := m^{2} |\Phi|^2 +2 \lambda |\Phi|$ (where $m^2$ and $\lambda$ are positive constant parameters). This could be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We study regular self-gravitating non-topological soliton solutions of the $U(1)$ gauged non-linear $O(3)$ sigma model with the usual kinetic term and a simple symmetry breaking potential in 3+1 dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Yakov Shnir , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk

We develop a numerical solver, that extends the computational framework considered in [Phys. Rev. D 65, 084016 (2002)], to include scalar perturbations of nonrotating black holes. The nonlinear Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 W. Barreto

We study neutron star configurations in a teleparallel gravity model featuring a scalar field coupled to both matter and torsion. In the Einstein frame, the theory includes a derivative coupling between the scalar field and the torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Youcef Kehal , Khireddine Nouicer

In the present paper we examine gravitational wave asteroseismology relations for f-modes of rapidly rotating neutron stars. An approach different to the previous studies is employed - first, the moment of inertia is used instead of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Daniela D. Doneva , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Non-axisymmetric oscillations of rapidly rotating relativistic stars are studied using the Cowling approximation. The oscillation spectra have been estimated by Fourier transforming the evolution equations describing the perturbations. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Erich Gaertig , Kostas D. Kokkotas

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

The starting point of any general relativistic numerical simulation is a solution of the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints that (ideally) represents an astrophysically realistic scenario. We present a new method to produce initial data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-30 Petr Tsatsin , Pedro Marronetti

We study exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

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 slowly-rotating neutron stars in ghost-free massive bigravity. This theory modifies General Relativity by introducing a second, auxiliary but dynamical tensor field that couples to matter through the physical metric tensor through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolas Yunes

Quasi-equilibrium models of rapidly rotating triaxially deformed stars are computed in general relativistic gravity, assuming a conformally flat spatial geometry (Isenberg-Wilson-Mathews formulation) and a polytropic equation of state.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-08 Xing Huang , Charalampos Markakis , Noriyuki Sugiyama , Koji Uryu

General relativity probably is not the definitive theory of gravity, due a number or issues, both from the theoretical and from the observational point of view. Alternative theories of gravity were conceived to extend general relativity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-13 Jacopo Soldateschi , Niccolò Bucciantini , Luca Del Zanna

The paper considers Euler-Poisson equations which govern the steady state of a self gravitating, rotating, axi-symmetric stars under the additional assumption that it is composed of incompressible stratified fluid. The original system of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Mayer Humi