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Light scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. The profile of boson stars in the Newtonian limit is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equations. We present a semi-analytic solution to these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-12 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman

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

Boson stars are descendants of the so-called geons of Wheeler, except that they are built from scalar particles instead of electromagnetic fields. If scalar fields exist in nature, such localized configurations kept together by their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck

This study investigates the optical imaging characteristics of massive boson stars based on a model with Einstein's nonlinear electrodynamics. Under asymptotically flat boundary conditions, the field equations are solved numerically to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Huan Ye , Ke-Jian He , Hao Yu

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

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

Boson stars coupled to Einstein's general relativity possess some features similar to gravastars, such as the anisotropy in principal pressures and relatively large compactness ($\mu_{max} = 0.32$). However, no matter how large the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Anja Marunovic

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

A new class of complex scalar field objects, which generalize the well known boson stars, was recently found as solutions to the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system. The generalization consists in incorporating some of the effects of angular…

We study the feebly interacting dark matter with the Standard Model fields, where the preceding and the latter ones are the constituents of the bosonic cosmological objects, the scalar boson stars (BS). The scalar dark matter (SDM) massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 G. A. Kozlov

Observations of the Sgr A* region in the galactic center confirm the presence of a large amount of matter in a small volume, leading to the consensus that a black hole exists there. However, dynamical observations cannot rule out the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Amitai Y. Bin-Nun

Boson stars are gravitationally bound objects that arise in ultralight dark matter models and form in the centers of galactic halos or axion miniclusters. We systematically study the excitations of a boson star, taking into account the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 James Hung-Hsu Chan , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

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

Compact boson stars, whose scalar field vanishes identically in the exterior region, arise in a theory involving a {\it massless} complex scalar field with a conical potential, when coupled to gravity. Their charged compact generalizations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-13 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha , Jutta Kunz

Boson stars are self-gravitating solutions made entirely of fundamental massive bosonic fields. Here we investigate mini boson stars in $D$ non-compact spacetime dimensions and we show that they are dynamically unstable for $D>4$.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Edgardo Franzin

We discuss boson stars as possible gravitational lenses and study the lensing effect by these objects made of scalar particles. The mass and the size of a boson star may vary from an individual Newtonian object similar to the Sun to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mariusz P. Dabrowski , Franz E. Schunck

We study $U(1)$ gauged gravitating compact $Q$-ball, $Q$-shell solutions in a nonlinear sigma model with the target space $\mathbb{C}P^N$. The models with odd integer $N$ and a special potential can be parameterized by $N$-th complex scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Nobuyuki Sawado , Shota Yanai

We present a brief synopsis of related work (gr-qc/0007039), describing a study of black hole threshold phenomena for a self-gravitating, massive complex scalar field in spherical symmetry. We construct Type I critical solutions dynamically…

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

We discuss boson stars and neutron stars, respectively, in a scalar-tensor gravity model with an explicitly time-dependent real scalar field. While the boson stars in our model -- in contrast to the neutron stars -- do not possess a hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu , B. Hartmann

We explore whether supermassive non-baryonic stars (in particular boson, mini-boson and non-topological soliton stars) might be at the center of some galaxies, with special attention to the Milky Way. We analyze, from a dynamical point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Diego F. Torres , S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase