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There is increasing numerical evidence that scalar fields can form long-lived quasi-bound states around black holes. Recent perturbative and numerical relativity calculations have provided further confirmation in a variety of physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

The multicomponent dark matter model with self-scattering and inter-conversions of species into one another is an alternative dark matter paradigm that is capable of resolving the long-standing problems of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keita Todoroki , Mikhail V. Medvedev

Using observational data for a sample of dark matter dominated galaxies and two cluster of galaxies, we have found that the central halo density does not depend on its mass, and the core radius is roughly proportional to the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Avila-Reese , C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , X. Hernandez

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

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

We study a self-gravitating ultralight dark matter condensate (a boson star) hosting a central black hole, in the nonrelativistic limit, which we refer to as a boson star black hole (BS-BH) system. We numerically solve the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Amitayus Banik , Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

We present a class of general relativistic soliton-like solutions composed of multiple minimally coupled, massive, real scalar fields which interact only through the gravitational field. We describe a two-parameter family of solutions we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

Properties of galaxies like their absolute magnitude and their stellar mass content are correlated. These correlations are tighter for close pairs of galaxies, which is called galactic conformity. In hierarchical structure formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Martin Kerscher

We investigate the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos made up of a massless bosonic field. The coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are solved numerically, showing that such a boson halo is stable and can be formed under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayashree Balakrishna , Franz E. Schunck

Several proposed models for dark matter posit the existence of self-interaction processes that can impact the shape of dark matter halos, making them more spherical than the ellipsoidal halos of collisionless dark matter. One method of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Alex McDaniel , Tesla Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

The spin, $\lambda$, of dark matter (DM) halos in cosmological simulations follows a log normal distribution and has little correlation with galaxy observables. As such, there is currently no way to infer the $\lambda$ parameter of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 A. Obreja , T. Buck , A. V. Macciò

A simple, observationally-motivated model is presented for understanding how halo masses, galaxy stellar masses, and star formation rates are related, and how these relations evolve with time. The relation between halo mass and galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Charlie Conroy , Risa H. Wechsler

We study solutions for boson stars in multiscalar theory. We start with simple models with N scalar theories. Our purpose is to study the models in which the mass matrix of scalars and the scalar couplings are given by an extended method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

The observation of flat rotation curves in asymptotic region of galaxies implies that the dark matter density profile decreases exponentially with the gravitational potential in this region. It is curious that this behavior is identical to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-06 Sanjoy K. Sarker , Allen Stern

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It has been shown that the equation of state and static…

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

Although the standard cosmological model, the so-called $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ("$\Lambda$CDM"), appears to fit well observations at the cosmological level, it is well known that it possesses several inconsistencies at the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Luis E. Padilla , Jordi Solís-López , Tonatiuh Matos , Ana Ávilez-López

We assume that the galactical dark matter halo, considered composed of an axionlike particles Bose-Einstein condensate \cite{pir12}, can present topological defects, namely domain walls, arising as the dark soliton solution for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-23 J. C. C. de Souza , M. O. C. Pires

We present spherically symmetric boson stars as black hole mimickers based on the power spectrum of a simple accretion disk model. The free parameters of the boson star are the mass of the boson and the fourth order self-interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-23 F. S. Guzman , J. M. Rueda-Becerril

Dissipative dark matter, where dark matter particles interact with a massless (or very light) boson, is studied. Such dark matter can arise in simple hidden sector gauge models, including those featuring an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Foot

Solitonic boson stars (SBS) are compact shell-like objects with an inside having a nearly constant value of scalar field bounded by a thin shell where the scalar field rapidly changes. While the spherically symmetric SBS can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Nikolay Sukhov
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