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We complete the analysis of part I in this series (Ref. \cite{Stotyn:2013yka}) by numerically constructing boson stars in 2+1 dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant, minimally coupled to a complex scalar field.…

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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…

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Vector boson stars, or $\textit{Proca stars}$, have been recently obtained as fully non-linear numerical solutions of the Einstein-(complex)-Proca system. These are self-gravitating, everywhere non-singular, horizonless Bose-Einstein…

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Different types of gravitating compact objects occuring in d=5 space-time are considered: boson stars, hairy black holes and perfect fluid solutions. All these solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to matter have well established…

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Using recently developed nonrelativistic numerical simulation code, we investigate the stability properties of compact astrophysical objects that may be formed due to the Bose-Einstein condensation of dark matter. Once the temperature of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Eniko J. M. Madarassy , Viktor T. Toth

This study investigates the modeling of anisotropic magnetized static neutron stars within the framework of five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (5D EGB) gravity. While Einstein's gravity has traditionally been employed to examine neutron…

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We use a Hamiltonian version of the semiclassical Einstein equation to study classical gravity coupled to a quantum scalar field with potential in spherical symmetry. The system is defined by effective constraints where the matter terms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Irfan Javed , Viqar Husain

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…

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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 static boson star solutions in the so-called Einstein-Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (E-FLS) theory, performing a complete analysis of the solution space in this model. We study the phenomenological aspects of E-FLS stars, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Pedro L. Brito de Sá , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

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

Fermion-boson stars are solutions of the gravitationally coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Hydrodynamic equations system. By means of methods developed in previous works, we perform a stability analysis of fermion-boson stars that include a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Ricardo Becerril , L. Arturo Ureña-López

We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no…

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Rotating fermion-boson stars are hypothetical celestial objects that consist of both fermionic and bosonic matter interacting exclusively through gravity. Bosonic fields are believed to arise in certain models of particle physics describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Christoph Adam , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

We perform numerical evolutions of the fully non-linear Einstein-(complex, massive)Klein-Gordon and Einstein-(complex)Proca systems, to assess the formation and stability of spinning bosonic stars. In the scalar/vector case these are known…

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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

We study numerically the nonlinear stability of {\it excited} fermion-boson stars in spherical symmetry. Such compound hypothetical stars, composed by fermions and bosons, are gravitationally bound, regular, and static configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Saeed Fakhry , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

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

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

We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow…

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