Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons

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Hauptverfasser: Herdeiro, Carlos, Radu, Eugen, Filho, Etevaldo dos Santos Costa, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
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author Herdeiro, Carlos
Radu, Eugen
Filho, Etevaldo dos Santos Costa
Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
author_facet Herdeiro, Carlos
Radu, Eugen
Filho, Etevaldo dos Santos Costa
Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
contents We construct new families of everywhere regular, asymptotically flat solitons in the Einstein--Proca model, obtained as self-gravitating continuations of flat-spacetime (singular) Proca multipoles. First we consider static and axially symmetric solutions, organized by a multipole number $\ell$. Two distinct classes arise: electric-type configurations, which include the spherical Proca stars as the $\ell=0$ case, and magnetic-type configurations, which have no spherical counterpart and start at $\ell=1$. Then we construct hybrid solutions as nonlinear superpositions of electric and magnetic multipoles. These have non-vanishing local angular momentum density but vanishing total angular momentum, and in some cases have no north-south $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry. By performing dynamical evolutions of Proca stars in the new magnetic and hybrid sectors, we show they are unstable, decaying to the (static) prolate Proca stars or the (stationary) spinning Proca stars, previously identified as dynamically robust, electric sector configurations. In some cases, they can also collapse into a black hole.
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spellingShingle Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons
Herdeiro, Carlos
Radu, Eugen
Filho, Etevaldo dos Santos Costa
Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct new families of everywhere regular, asymptotically flat solitons in the Einstein--Proca model, obtained as self-gravitating continuations of flat-spacetime (singular) Proca multipoles. First we consider static and axially symmetric solutions, organized by a multipole number $\ell$. Two distinct classes arise: electric-type configurations, which include the spherical Proca stars as the $\ell=0$ case, and magnetic-type configurations, which have no spherical counterpart and start at $\ell=1$. Then we construct hybrid solutions as nonlinear superpositions of electric and magnetic multipoles. These have non-vanishing local angular momentum density but vanishing total angular momentum, and in some cases have no north-south $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry. By performing dynamical evolutions of Proca stars in the new magnetic and hybrid sectors, we show they are unstable, decaying to the (static) prolate Proca stars or the (stationary) spinning Proca stars, previously identified as dynamically robust, electric sector configurations. In some cases, they can also collapse into a black hole.
title Multipolar Proca stars: electric, magnetic and hybrid solitons
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13965