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We construct and dynamically evolve dipolar, self-interacting scalar boson stars in a model with sextic (+ quartic) self-interactions. The domain of existence of such dipolar $Q$-stars has a similar structure to that of the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Pedro Ildefonso , Miguel Zilhão , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nuno M. Santos

There is increasing numerical evidence that scalar fields can form long-lived quasi-bound states around black holes. Recent perturbative and numerical relativity calculations have provided further confirmation in a variety of physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

We study spontaneous scalarization in Scalar-Tensor boson stars. We find that scalarization does not occur in stars whose bosons have no self-interaction. We introduce a quartic self-interaction term into the boson Lagrangian and show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Whinnett

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

In scalar-tensor theories, compact objects may experience spontaneous scalarization. Recently, it was shown that matter-induced spontaneous scalarization of neutron stars is predominantly associated with a first-order phase transition. Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Hyat Huang , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Meng-Yun Lai , Eugen Radu , De-Cheng Zou

We show that the phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization predicted in neutron stars within the framework of scalar-tensor tensor theories of gravity, also takes place in boson stars without including a self-interaction term for the boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-30 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan C. Degollado , Dario Nunez , Milton Ruiz , Marcelo Salgado

We study properties of boson stars consisting of ultra-light scalar dark matter with repulsive self-interactions. We investigate the origin of the maximum mass of spherically symmetric stable stars which emerges only when solving the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-17 Djuna Croon , JiJi Fan , Chen Sun

The substructures of light bosonic (axion-like) dark matter may condense into compact Bose stars. We study collapses of the critical-mass stars caused by attractive self-interaction of the axion-like particles and find that these processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , I. I. Tkachev

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 investigate the boson star with the self-interacting scalar field as a model of galactic halos. The model has slightly increasing rotation curves and allows wider ranges of the mass($m$) and coupling($\lambda$) of the halo dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jae-weon Lee , In-guy Koh

We explore the dynamics of boson stars in the presence of axionic couplings through nonlinear evolutions of Einstein's field equations. We show that, for large axionic couplings, isolated boson stars become unstable, and decay via a large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso

We construct boson star solutions in the presence of a phantom field, allowing for a nontrivial topology of the solutions. The wormholes residing at the core of the configurations lead to a number of qualitative changes of the boson star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-15 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Christian Hoffmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

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

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

Boson stars are stationary soliton-like gravitational configurations supported by a complex scalar field charged under the global $U(1)$ symmetry. We discuss properties of boson stars in type IIB supergravity approximation to string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Alex Buchel

We present a numerical study of general relativistic boson stars in both spherical symmetry and axisymmetry. We consider both time-independent problems, involving the solution of equilibrium equations for rotating boson stars, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi-Wai Lai

We construct electrically charged Q-balls and boson stars in a model with a scalar self-interaction potential resulting from gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. We discuss the properties of these solutions in detail and emphasize the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Yves Brihaye , Valeria Diemer , Betti Hartmann

The properties of compact stars made of massive bosons with a repulsive selfinteraction mediated by vector mesons are studied within the mean-field approximation and general relativity. We demonstrate that there exists a scaling property…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Pratik Agnihotri , Juergen Schaffner-Bielich , Igor N. Mishustin

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

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