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| author | Evstafyeva, Tamara Rosca-Mead, Roxana Sperhake, Ulrich Brugmann, Bernd |
| author_facet | Evstafyeva, Tamara Rosca-Mead, Roxana Sperhake, Ulrich Brugmann, Bernd |
| contents | 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 phenomenon called spontaneous scalarization, the onset of which we investigate by numerically computing families of boson-star models using shooting and relaxation algorithms. We systematically explore the effects of the theory's coupling, the mass of the gravitational scalar and the choice of the bosonic potential on the structure of weakly and strongly scalarized solutions. Scalarized boson-star models share many common features with neutron stars in the same scalar-tensor theory of gravity. In particular, scalarization can result in boson stars with significantly larger radii and masses, which tend to be energetically favored over their weakly or non-scalarized counterparts. Overall, we find that boson stars are not quite as susceptible to scalarization as neutron stars. |
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| spellingShingle | Boson stars in massless and massive scalar-tensor gravity Evstafyeva, Tamara Rosca-Mead, Roxana Sperhake, Ulrich Brugmann, Bernd General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 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 phenomenon called spontaneous scalarization, the onset of which we investigate by numerically computing families of boson-star models using shooting and relaxation algorithms. We systematically explore the effects of the theory's coupling, the mass of the gravitational scalar and the choice of the bosonic potential on the structure of weakly and strongly scalarized solutions. Scalarized boson-star models share many common features with neutron stars in the same scalar-tensor theory of gravity. In particular, scalarization can result in boson stars with significantly larger radii and masses, which tend to be energetically favored over their weakly or non-scalarized counterparts. Overall, we find that boson stars are not quite as susceptible to scalarization as neutron stars. |
| title | Boson stars in massless and massive scalar-tensor gravity |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05200 |