Malaise and remedy of binary boson-star initial data

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC53B7MaRDI QIDQ5066833zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Helfer, Ulrich Sperhake, Robin Croft, Miren Radia, Boxuan Ge, Eugene A. Lim

Publication date 30 March 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11995

zbMATH Keywords

boson starscompact objectsgravitational wavesnumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Two-body problems (70F05) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: Through numerical simulations of boson-star head-on collisions, we explore the quality of binary initial data obtained from the superposition of single-star spacetimes. Our results demonstrate that evolutions starting from a plain superposition of individual boosted boson-star spacetimes are vulnerable to significant unphysical artefacts. These difficulties can be overcome with a simple modification of the initial data suggested in [PRD 99 (2018) 044046] for collisions of oscillatons. While we specifically consider massive complex scalar field boson star models up to a 6th-order-polynomial potential, we argue that this vulnerability is universal and present in other kinds of exotic compact systems and hence needs to be addressed.

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