Numerical simulations of equal-mass boson-star mergers reveal larger waveform deviations from black-hole binaries in late inspiral and merger, plus odd multipole excitations for certain scalar-field phases, with some signals degenerate until IMR consistency tests are applied.
Head-on collisions of boson stars
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We study head-on collisions of boson stars in three dimensions. We consider evolutions of two boson stars which may differ in their phase or have opposite frequencies but are otherwise identical. Our studies show that these phase differences result in different late time behavior and gravitational wave output.
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A hierarchical analysis of 69 GWTC-3 black-hole merger candidates yields an effective compactness consistent with C=0.5 and no evidence for a low-compactness exotic population.
No GWTC-3 event robustly prefers a non-BBH merger morphology once low-frequency cutoffs are raised; apparent low-compactness modes are noise artifacts, with GW231123 left as an unresolved special case.
Quartically self-interacting massive boson stars are stable only up to the first mass maximum; their head-on mergers yield a boson-star remnant, a black hole at contact, or two black holes formed before contact, with radiated energy varying non-monotonically at strong coupling.
Chain-like transients in boson star collisions are controlled by a timing window set by matching binary collision time to the isolated breathing clock rather than excitation level alone.
Using an existing numerical-relativity catalogue, the paper builds a branch-conditioned neural reconstruction model that infers boson-star merger outcomes from waveform morphology by comparing reconstruction quality across candidate hypotheses.
Numerical classification of spherically symmetric boson star evolutions into stable, black-hole-forming, and exploding categories via constrained evolution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system.
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Lessons from binary dynamics of inspiralling equal-mass boson-star mergers
Numerical simulations of equal-mass boson-star mergers reveal larger waveform deviations from black-hole binaries in late inspiral and merger, plus odd multipole excitations for certain scalar-field phases, with some signals degenerate until IMR consistency tests are applied.
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Establishing Compactness as a Population Observable in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
A hierarchical analysis of 69 GWTC-3 black-hole merger candidates yields an effective compactness consistent with C=0.5 and no evidence for a low-compactness exotic population.
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Compactness Inference in Gravitational-Wave Mergers with PhenomDECO: Catalog Benchmarks and Robustness Diagnostics
No GWTC-3 event robustly prefers a non-BBH merger morphology once low-frequency cutoffs are raised; apparent low-compactness modes are noise artifacts, with GW231123 left as an unresolved special case.
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Massive boson stars: Stability and GW emission in head-on mergers
Quartically self-interacting massive boson stars are stable only up to the first mass maximum; their head-on mergers yield a boson-star remnant, a black hole at contact, or two black holes formed before contact, with radiated energy varying non-monotonically at strong coupling.
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Timing-Window Mechanism for Chain-Like Transients in Collisions of Radially Excited Boson Stars
Chain-like transients in boson star collisions are controlled by a timing window set by matching binary collision time to the isolated breathing clock rather than excitation level alone.
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Massive boson stars: Waveform-based branch diagnosis with neural reconstruction
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The three dynamical fates of Boson Stars
Numerical classification of spherically symmetric boson star evolutions into stable, black-hole-forming, and exploding categories via constrained evolution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system.
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