| Title |
Dynamical boson stars
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Living Reviews in Relativity, November 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s41114-017-0007-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Steven L. Liebling, Carlos Palenzuela |
| Abstract |
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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| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
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| Student > Master | 6 | 18% |
| Researcher | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 9% |
| Professor | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 18% |
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| Physics and Astronomy | 23 | 68% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 3% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 3% |
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