Proca stars: Gravitating Bose–Einstein condensates of massive spin 1 particles

We establish that massive complex Abelian vector fields (mass μ) can form gravitating solitons, when minimally coupled to Einstein's gravity. Such Proca stars (PSs) have a stationary, everywhere regular and asymptotically flat geometry. The Proca field, however, possesses a harmonic time depend...

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Main Authors: Richard Brito, Vitor Cardoso, Carlos A.R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315009077