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Main Authors: Marks, Gareth Arturo, Staelens, Seppe J., Evstafyeva, Tamara, Sperhake, Ulrich
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17775
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  • We study the stability of ultracompact boson stars admitting light rings combining a perturbative analysis with 3+1 numerical-relativity simulations with and without symmetry assumptions. We observe excellent agreement between all perturbative and numerical results which uniformly support the hypothesis that this family of black-hole mimickers is separated into stable and unstable branches by extremal-mass configurations. This separation includes, in particular, thin-shell boson stars with light rings located on the stable branch which we conclude to represent long-term stable black-hole mimickers.