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Rotating bosonic dark matter halos are considered as potential candidates for modeling dark matter in galactic halos. These bosonic dark matter halos can be viewed as a dilute and very extended version of bosonic stars, and the methods used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-13 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Christoph Adam

In this paper, we construct a hybrid boson star model that contains a complex scalar field and a Proca field. The scalar field is in the ground state, while the Proca field is in the first excited state. We numerically solve the model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Tian-Xiang Ma , Chen Liang , Jie Yang , Yong-Qiang Wang

We construct boson star configurations in quantum field theory using the semiclassical gravity approximation. Restricting our attention to the static case, we show that the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a {\it single real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

We investigate Proca star (PS) solutions, namely boson star (BS) type solutions for a complex vector field with mass and nonminimal coupling to the Einstein tensor. Irrespective of the existence of nonminimal coupling, PS solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-18 Masato Minamitsuji

The superradiant growth of massive vector fields in rotating black hole spacetimes has garnered significant attention in recent literature. However, the majority of these studies overlook the influence of a cosmological constant, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Shaun David Brocus Fell , Lavinia Heisenberg

The Einstein-Proca system is studied in the case of a complex vector-field self-interacting through an appropriate potential with a global U(1) symmetry. The corresponding equations for a static, cylindrically symmetric metric and matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Y. Brihaye , Y. Verbin

We study the dynamical stability of Proca-Higgs stars, in spherical symmetry. These are solutions of the Einstein-Proca-Higgs model, which features a Higgs-like field coupled to a Proca field, both of which minimally coupled to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , Miguel Zilhão

We study relativistic star solutions in second-order generalized Proca theories characterized by a $U(1)$-breaking vector field with derivative couplings. In the models with cubic and quartic derivative coupling, the mass and radius of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Ryotaro Kase , Masato Minamitsuji , Shinji Tsujikawa

The Proca wave equation describes a classical massive spin 1 particle. We analyze the gravitational interaction of this vector field. In particular, the spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Proca coupled system are obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Yuri N. Obukhov , Eugen J. Vlachynsky

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

In a class of generalized Proca theories, we study the existence of neutron star solutions with a nonvanishing temporal component of the vector field $A_\mu$ approaching 0 toward spatial infinity, as they may be the endpoints of tachyonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 Ryotaro Kase , Masato Minamitsuji , Shinji Tsujikawa

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

In this paper, we study gauged solutions associated to a massive vector field representing a spin-one condensate, namely the Proca field. We focus on regular spherically-symmetric solutions which we construct either using a self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Federico García , Ignacio Salazar Landea

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

In a previous work we constructed different families of stationary electrically charged Proca stars characterized by a charge parameter $q$, by solving the Einstein--Maxwell--Proca system in spherical symmetry, and imposing a harmonic time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Yahir Mio , Miguel Alcubierre

The Einstein-Proca equations, describing a spin-1 massive vector field in general relativity, are studied in the static, spherically-symmetric case. The Proca field equation is a highly nonlinear wave equation, but can be solved to good…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-04 Chris Vuille , James Ipser , Jeff Gallagher

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

Bound states of complex scalar fields (boson stars) have long been proposed as possible candidates for the dark matter in the universe. Considerable work has already been done to study various aspects of boson stars. In the present work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 R. Sharma , S. Karmakar , S. Mukherjee

Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to free, massive, classical fundamental fields admits particle-like solutions. These are asymptotically flat, everywhere non-singular configurations that realise Wheeler's concept of a geon: a localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Herdeiro , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

While black-hole and neutron-star mergers are the most plausible sources of current gravitational-wave observations, mergers of exotic compact objects may mimic these signals. Proca stars -- Bose-Einstein condensates of complex vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-17 Ana Lorenzo-Medina , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Samson H. W. Leong