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Title: Dynamical boson stars
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.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2011383
PAR ID:
10418221
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Living Reviews in Relativity
Volume:
26
Issue:
1
ISSN:
1433-8351
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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