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Compact objects occupy a pivotal role in the exploration of Nature. The interest spans from the role of compact objects in astrophysics to their detection through various methods (gravitational waves interferometry, microlensing, imaging).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Luca Visinelli

Boson Stars are macroscopic self-gravitating configurations made of complex scalar fields. These exotic compact objects would manifest as dark Boson stars and, in the absence of electromagnetic signatures, could mimic properties of compact…

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

We study the possibility that self-interacting bosonic dark matter forms star-like objects. We study both the case of attractive and repulsive self-interactions, and we focus particularly in the parameter phase space where self-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Joshua Eby , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Light bosonic dark matter can form gravitationally bound states known as boson stars. In this work, we explore a new signature of these objects interacting with the interstellar medium (ISM). We show how small effective couplings between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 Javier F. Acevedo , Amit Bhoonah , Joseph Bramante

Fundamental bosonic fields of arbitrary spin are predicted by generic extensions of the Standard Model and of General Relativity, and are well-motivated candidates to explain the dark components of the Universe. One of most promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-19 Richard Brito

We provide a detailed analysis of how bosonic dark matter "condensates" interact with compact stars, extending significantly the results of a recent Letter. We focus on bosonic fields with mass $m_B$, such as axions, axion-like candidates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Hirotada Okawa , Carlos Palenzuela

In this work, we explore the possible scenario of strange stars admixed with fermionic or bosonic dark matter. For the description of the ``visible'' sector, we use a specific phenomenological quark model that takes into account in-medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Isabella Marzola , Everson H. Rodrigues , Anderson F. Coelho , Odilon Lourenço

The present surge for the astrophysical relevance of boson stars stems from the speculative possibility that these compact objects could provide a considerable fraction of the non-baryonic part of dark matter within the halo of galaxies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Eckehard W. Mielke , Franz E. Schunck

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

We investigate neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) merger candidates as a test for compact exotic objects. Using the events GW190814, GW200105 and GW200115 measured by the LIGO-Virgo collabration, which represent a broad profile of the masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Stephan Wystub , Yannick Dengler , Jan-Erik Christian , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

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

We consider the implications of fermionic asymmetric dark matter for a "mixed neutron star" composed of ordinary baryons and dark fermions. We find examples, where for a certain range of dark fermion mass -- when it is less than that of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 I. Goldman , R. N. Mohapatra , S. Nussinov , D. Rosenbaum , V. Teplitz

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

We investigated the possibility that compact stars could be described by a fermion-boson star with a quartic self-interaction in the boson sector. Specifically, by varying the polytropic constant $K$ and adiabatic index $\Gamma$ in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , J. M. Dávila , L. Arturo Ureña-López , Ricardo Becerril

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

It has been shown that scalar fields can form gravitationally bound compact objects called boson stars. In this study, we analyze boson star configurations where the scalar fields contain a small amount of angular momentum and find two new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman , Freida Liz Rivera

Boson stars, self-gravitating objects made of a complex scalar field, have been proposed as simple models for very different scenarios, ranging from galaxy dark matter to black hole mimickers. Here we focus on a very compact type of boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Miguel Bezares , Carlos Palenzuela , Carles Bona

Bargmann-Wigner equations are formulated to represent bosonic fields in terms of fermionic fields in curved spacetime. The superradiance phenomena of bosons and fermions in rotating black hole spacetime are studied in the Bargmann-Wigner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-31 Masakatsu Kenmoku

Gravitationally bound structures composed by fermions and scalar particles known as fermion-boson stars are regular and static configurations obtained by solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Euler (EKGE) system. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu Miyauchi , Takahiro Tanaka