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Neutron star interiors are a fantastic laboratory for high density physics in extreme environments. Probing this system with standard electromagnetic observations is, however, a challenging endeavour, as the radiation tends to be scattered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-08 Brynmor Haskell , Kai Schwenzer

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

Under the influence of gravity, light scalar fields can form bound compact objects called boson stars. We use the technique of matching asymptotic expansions to obtain the profile for boson stars where the constituent particles have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-19 Felix Kling , Arvind Rajaraman

We study oscillations and instabilities of relativistic stars using perturbation theory in general relativity and take into account the contribution of a dynamic spacetime. We present the oscillation spectrum as well as the critical values…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 C. J. Krüger , K. D. Kokkotas

We present results from a study of Type I critical phenomena in the dynamics of general relativistic boson stars in spherical symmetry. The boson stars are modelled with a minimally coupled, massive complex field (with no explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-05 Chi Wai Lai , Matthew W. Choptuik

The effective long-time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of rough nonlinear perturbations is rigorously studied. It is shown that, if the initial state is close to a slowly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 Walid K. Abou Salem

We study the time evolution of spherical, excited -- with $n$ radial nodes -- scalar boson stars in General Relativity minimally coupled to a complex massive scalar field with quartic self-interactions. We report that these stars, with up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão

We construct and explore the solution space of two non-spinning, mini-boson stars in equilibrium, in fully non-linear General Relativity (GR), minimally coupled to a free, massive, complex scalar field. The equilibrium is due to the balance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 P. Cunha , C. Herdeiro , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

A self-interacting SU(2)-doublet of complex scalar fields, minimally coupled to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is considered in five space-time dimensions. The classical equations admit two families of solitons corresponding to spinning and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Yves Brihaye , Jürgen Riedel

We present 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 by tuning a one-parameter family of initial data composed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

We make a detailed study of boson star configurations in Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory, studying both equilibrium properties and stability, and considering boson stars existing at different cosmic epochs. We show that boson stars can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Diego F Torres , Franz E Schunck , Andrew R Liddle

In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of a nonlinear Schroedinger equation in presence of an external potential, which is allowed to be singular at one point. We show that the solution behaves like a solitary wave for long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Claudio Bonanno

We study the inertial modes of slowly rotating, fully relativistic compact stars. The equations that govern perturbations of both barotropic and non-barotropic models are discussed, but we present numerical results only for the barotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. H. Lockitch , J. L. Friedman , N. Andersson

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 study solutions for boson stars in the multi-scalar field theory with global symmetry $[U(1)]^N$. The properties of the boson stars are investigated by the Newtonian approximation with the large coupling limit. Our purpose is to study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

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 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

Some recent results on rotating self-gravitating configurations composed with Bosons and Fermions are reported. Given a star composed of both Bosons and Fermions without interaction, it is shown that it is possible to obtain stable slowly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Claudio M. G. de Sousa

In this paper, we study rotating boson stars in the large coupling limit as well as in the Newtonian limit. We investigate the equilibrium solutions in four and five dimensions by adopting some analytical approximations. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi