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We present the formalism of q-stars with local or global U(1) symmetry. The equations we formulate are solved numerically and provide the main features of the soliton star. We study its behavior when the symmetry is local in contrast to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Athanasios Prikas

In this work we study the boson stars and boson shells in a theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical potential in the presence of a cosmological constant ${\Lambda}$ which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

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 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

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

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

The discovery of a 2 Msun neutron star provided a robust constraint for the theory of exotic dense matter, bringing into question the existence of strange baryons in the interiors of neutron stars. Although many theories fail to reproduce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 M. Bejger

We consider boson star solutions in a $D$-dimensional, asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime and investigate the influence of the cosmological term on their properties. We find that for $D>4$ the boson star properties are close to those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dumitru Astefanesei , Eugen Radu

We propose that stable boson stars generically fall within an infinite-parameter family of solutions that oscillate on any number of non-commensurate frequencies. We numerically construct two-frequency solutions and explore their parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Choptuik , Ramon Masachs , Benson Way

Mixed fermion-boson stars are stable, horizonless, everywhere regular solutions of the coupled Einstein-(complex, massive) Klein-Gordon-Euler system. While isolated neutron stars and boson stars are uniquely determined by their central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José Antonio Font

We obtain the first image of a parity-odd celestial body. Recently, an intriguing parity-odd rotating boson star was proposed. We investigate the lensing effects of these stars in detail. Our analysis demonstrates distinct gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu , Hongsheng Zhang

We construct spherically symmetric boson star solutions in $D \in \{4,5,6\}$ spacetime dimensions, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction term and a solitonic potential. We then perform a perturbative analysis,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Gareth Arturo Marks , Abdullah Al Zaif

An exact solution for a nonrotating boson star in (2+1) dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant is found. The relations among mass, particle number, and radius of the (2+1) dimensional boson star are shown.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

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

Relativistic prescription is used to study the slow rotation of stars composed by self-gravitating bosons and fermions (fermions may be considered as neutrons). Previous results demand that purely boson stars are unable to display slow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Claudio M G de Sousa , Vanda Silveira

We present solutions to the Einstein-Klein Gordon system representing boson stars in the slow rotation approximation. By considering slow rotation we are able to reduce the number of equations yielding a system of ordinary differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Juan Carlos Degollado , Luis E. Martínez , Marcelo Salgado

We study phenomenological features and stability of boson stars in massless and massive scalar-tensor theory of gravity with Damour-Esposito-Farese coupling. This coupling between the tensor and scalar sectors of the theory leads to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Tamara Evstafyeva , Roxana Rosca-Mead , Ulrich Sperhake , Bernd Brugmann

In this paper we propose a notion of stability, that we call $\epsilon -N$-stability, for systems of particles interacting via Newton's gravitational potential, and orbiting a much bigger object. For these systems the usual thermodynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Gabriella Pinzari , Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani

Boson stars are hypothetical compact objects derived from solutions of a self-gravitating complex scalar field. In this study, we extend the traditional models by generalizing the kinetic term of the scalar field to that of a nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Andrzej Wereszczynski

The possibility of the phenomenon of Bose condensation having a part to play in the discussion of neutron stars has been around for some time. Here the sorts of temperatures and densities that might be involved are discussed. Also, an…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dunning-Davies