2007

Numerical Simulations of Oscillating Soliton Stars: Excited States in Spherical Symmetry and Ground State Evolutions in 3D

Balakrishna, Jayashree, Bondarescu, Ruxandra, Daues, Gregory et al.

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Excited state soliton stars are studied numerically for the first time.

  • The stability of spherically symmetric S-branch excited state oscillatons under radial perturbations is investigated using a 1D code.
  • We find that these stars are inherently unstable either migrating to the ground state or collapsing to black holes.
  • Higher excited state configurations are observed to cascade through intermediate excited states during their migration to the ground state.

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