Orbital Dynamics of Binary Boson Star Systems

Understand

We extend our previous studies of head-on collisions of boson stars by considering orbiting binary boson stars.

• We concentrate on equal mass binaries and study the dynamical behavior of boson/boson and boson/antiboson pairs.
• We examine the gravitational wave output of these binaries and compare with other compact binaries.
• Such a comparison lets us probe the apparent simplicity observed in gravitational waves produced by black hole binary systems.