Journal
LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s41114-017-0007-y
Keywords
Numerical relativity; Boson stars; Solitons
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through Ministry of Research and Innovation
- NSF [PHY-1607291, PHY-1308621, PHY-0969827, PHY-0803624]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [FPA2013-41042-P, AYA2016-80289-P]
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science by Ramon y Cajal Grant
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1607291] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The idea of stable, localized bundles of energy has strong appeal as a model for particles. In the 1950s, John Wheeler envisioned such bundles as smooth configurations of electromagnetic energy that he called geons, but none were found. Instead, particle-like solutions were found in the late 1960s with the addition of a scalar field, and these were given the name boson stars. Since then, boson stars find use in a wide variety of models as sources of dark matter, as black hole mimickers, in simple models of binary systems, and as a tool in finding black holes in higher dimensions with only a single Killing vector. We discuss important varieties of boson stars, their dynamic properties, and some of their uses, concentrating on recent efforts.
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