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We investigate the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos made up of a massless bosonic field. The coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are solved numerically, showing that such a boson halo is stable and can be formed under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayashree Balakrishna , Franz E. Schunck

Neutron stars and black holes are the astrophysical systems with the strongest gravitational fields in the universe. In this article, I review the prospect of probing with observations of such compact objects some of the most intriguing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrios Psaltis

Central compact objects (CCOs) are neutron stars that are found near the center of supernova remnants, and their association with supernova remnants indicates these neutron stars are young (<~ 10^4 yr). Here we review the observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 Wynn C. G. Ho

We consider strongly gravitating configurations consisting of coupled real Higgs scalar field and vector (Proca) field of mass $\mu_P$. For such a system, we find static regular axially symmetric solutions describing asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-11 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

Compact boson star binaries are hypothetical sources for ground-based and space gravitational-wave detectors. Their signal would be a messenger for novel fundamental fields and could shed light on the dark matter. In this work, we further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Massimo Vaglio , Costantino Pacilio , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Gravitational wave observations have significantly broadened our capacity to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, providing crucial insights into dark matter that are inaccessible through conventional methods. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

Oscillons are spatially localized, time-periodic and long-lived configurations that were primarily proposed in scalar field theories with attractive self-interactions. In this letter, we demonstrate that oscillons also exist in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Hong-Yi Zhang , Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin

Viable alternatives to astrophysical black holes include hyper-compact objects without horizon, such as gravastars, boson stars, wormholes and superspinars. The authors have recently shown that typical rapidly-spinning gravastars and boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Mariano Cadoni , Marco Cavaglia

Solitonic boson stars are stable objects made of a complex scalar field with a compactness that can reach values comparable to that of neutron stars. A recent study of the collision of identical boson stars produced only non-rotating boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Miguel Bezares , Vitor Cardoso , Luis Lehner , Steven Liebling

Black holes (BH) are among the most unusual and exciting physical objects. Besides being simultaneously Relativistic and quantum mechanical objects, which allows the discovery and/or tests of new physics, BHs also present a lack of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-27 Alexandre M. Pombo

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

Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of neutron stars to densities which are significantly higher than the density of ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment in which numerous particle processes - from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Fridolin Weber

Using the Newtonian approximation, we study rotating compact bosonic objects. The equations which describe stationary states with non-zero angular momentum are constructed and some numerical results are presented as examples. Limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Vanda Silveira , Claudio M. G. de Sousa

If there is a scalar boson field interacting dominantly with a quark or a lepton in the thermal background, its coherent oscillation can be generated through the thermal effect and becomes a good dark matter candidate in a wide range of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-12 Eung Jin Chun

Sun-like stars can transmute into comparable mass black holes by steadily accumulating heavy non-annihilating dark matter particles over the course of their lives. If such stars form in binary systems, they could give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-07 Sulagna Bhattacharya , Andrew L. Miller , Anupam Ray

In this work, we obtain the shadow images of spherically symmetric scalar boson and Proca stars using analytical fittings of numerical solutions, when illuminated by a geometrically thin accretion disk. We chose a sample of four boson and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

This work studies the formation and growth of boson stars and their surrounding miniclusters by gravitational condensation using non-linear dynamical numerical methods. Fully dynamical attractive and repulsive self-interactions are also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiajun Chen , Xiaolong Du , Erik W. Lentz , David J. E. Marsh , Jens C. Niemeyer

Coalescing compact binaries with neutron star or black hole components provide the most promising sources of gravitational radiation for detection by the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA laser interferometers now under construction. This fact has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Frederic A. Rasio , Stuart L. Shapiro

Probing the existence of hypothetical particles beyond the Standard model often deals with extreme parameters: large energies, tiny cross-sections, large time scales, etc. Sometimes laboratory experiments can test required regions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 P. Tinyakov , M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

Scalar bosonic stars (BSs) stand out as a multi-purpose model of exotic compact objects. We enlarge the landscape of such (asymptotically flat, stationary, everywhere regular) objects by considering multiple fields (possibly) with different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-23 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , José A. Font