ECO-spotting: looking for extremely compact objects with bosonic fields

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC41E7MaRDI QIDQ5023546zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vitor Cardoso, Caio F. B. Macedo, Kei-Ichi Maeda, Hirotada Okawa

Publication date 24 January 2022

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05750

zbMATH Keywords

boson starscompact objectsexotic compact objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Sampled-data control/observation systems (93C57)

Abstract: Black holes are thought to describe the geometry of massive, dark compact objects in the universe. To further support and quantify this long-held belief requires knowledge of possible, if exotic alternatives. Here, we wish to understand how compact can self-gravitating solutions be. We discuss theories with a well-posed initial value problem, consisting in either a single self-interacting scalar, vector or both. We focus on spherically symmetric solutions, investigating the influence of self-interacting potentials into the compactness of the solutions, in particular those that allow for flat-spacetime solutions. We are able to connect such stars to hairy black hole solutions, which emerge as a zero-mass black hole. We show that such stars can have light rings, but their compactness is never parametrically close to that of black holes. The challenge of finding black hole mimickers to investigate full numerical-relativity binary setups remains open.

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