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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

We study axially symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations describing spinning gauged boson stars in a 3+1 dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetime. These smooth horizonless solutions possess an electric charge and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Olga Kichakova , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

We study the dynamics of a self-gravitating scalar field solitonic object (boson star) in the Jordan-Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity. We show dynamical processes of this system such as (i) black hole formation of perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jayashree Balakrishna , Hisa-aki Shinkai

The study of the properties and dynamics of self-gravitating bosonic objects in Einstein gravity was conducted. We studied self-coupled boson stars and determined the quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies of stable boson stars in spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jayashree Balakrishna

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

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 exact, analytic, static, spherically symmetric, four-dimensional solutions of minimally coupled Einstein-scalar gravity, sourced by a scalar field whose profile has the form of the sine-Gordon soliton. We present a horizonless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Edgardo Franzin , Mariano Cadoni , Matteo Tuveri

We study boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := m^{2} |\Phi|^2 +2 \lambda |\Phi|$ (where $m^2$ and $\lambda$ are positive constant parameters). This could be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

Boson stars have been extensively studied in classical gravity, but their quantum properties remain comparatively unexplored. In this paper, we compute the quantum scalar fields and stress tensor in boson star spacetimes within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul M. Saffin , Qi-Xin Xie

We present spinning Q-balls and boson stars in four dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. These are smooth, horizonless solutions for gravity coupled to a massive complex scalar field with a harmonic dependence on time and the azimuthal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Eugen Radu , Bintoro Subagyo

Boson stars consist of a system of self-gravitating scalar fields which form a macroscopic quantum state and are a possible dark matter candidate. In this paper, we address the existence of boson stars in Brans-Dicke gravity. We show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Mark A. Gunderson , Lars Gerhard Jensen

We study boson shells and boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to the $U(1)$ gauge field $A_{\mu}$ and Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := \frac{1}{2} m^{2} \left(|\Phi|+ a \right)^2$. This could be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We solve the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system of equations and derive a compact, static axially symmetric magnetized object which is electrically neutral and made of two complex massive charged scalar fields. We describe several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Víctor Jaramillo , Darío Núñez

Bosonic stars represent a hypothetical exotic type of compact stellar objects that could be observed from the gravitational signal of coalescing binaries in current and future gravitational wave detectors. There are two main families of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We solve Einstein equations coupled to a complex scalar field with infinitely large self-interaction, degenerate fermions, and a negative cosmological constant in $(2+1)$ dimensions. Exact solutions for static boson-fermion stars are found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We have developed a highly accurate numerical code capable of solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon system, in order to construct rotating boson stars in general relativity. Free fields and self-interacting fields, with quartic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-29 Philippe Grandclement , Claire Somé , Eric Gourgoulhon

We investigate the properties of interacting Q-balls and boson stars that sit on top of each other in great detail. The model that describes these solutions is essentially a (gravitating) two-scalar field model where both scalar fields are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Yves Brihaye , Thierry Caebergs , Betti Hartmann , Momchil Minkov

We investigate boson stars within the framework of the self-interacting Einstein-Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (E-FLS) model, constituted by a complex scalar field with a quartic self-interaction and a real scalar field. Our analysis explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Pedro L. Brito de Sá , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

Boson stars are often described as macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates. By accommodating large numbers of bosons in the same quantum state, they materialize macroscopically the intangible probability density cloud of a single particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 C. A. R. Herdeiro , J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

Q-balls are non-topological solitons arising in scalar field theories. Solutions for rotating Q-balls (and the related boson stars) have been shown to exist when the angular momentum is equal to an integer multiple of the Q-ball charge $Q$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Yahya Almumin , Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren