Gravitational waves and kicks from the merger of unequal mass, highly compact boson stars
Gravitational waves and kicks from the merger of unequal mass, highly compact boson stars
Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects through electromagnetic signatures would be unlikely because their bosonic constituents are not expected to interact significantly with ordinary …