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.
Imaging compact boson stars with hot spots and thin accretion disks
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Compact boson stars exhibit broader gravitational lensing rings than black holes, resulting in images and visibilities that depend more strongly on the structure of the accretion flow.
Numerical study of thin accretion disk images shows that increasing parity-odd scalar hair on Kerr black holes shrinks and distorts the photon ring and shadow, producing multiple disconnected shadows and chaotic lensing features in strong-hair regimes.
Fitting GRAVITY flare astrometry to solitonic boson star models requires masses larger than 4.3 million solar masses, with more diffuse models yielding values closer to the standard black hole mass and thus placing stringent but incomplete constraints on such interpretations of Sgr A*.
Tidal forces in the Simpson-Visser spacetime produce Roche radii for stars that depend on observer type and regularization, with some disruptions occurring outside the event horizon for supermassive black holes.
Numerical construction of Hayward boson stars shows that frozen states produce Schwarzschild-like shadows with no extra photon rings while non-frozen states show multiple photon rings inside the shadow.
Bayesian fitting to mock GRAVITY data shows robust detection of secondary images from Sgr A* flares requires both an order-of-magnitude larger sample and astrometric uncertainties reduced to 40% of current levels for |ΔBIC| > 7.9.
Bayesian analysis shows current near-IR astrometry data cannot distinguish massive boson stars from Schwarzschild black holes for Sgr A*.
Hairy black hole shadows and disks grow with horizon scalar value but can mimic Schwarzschild by adjusting horizon radius, with the potential parameter Lambda constrained by supermassive black hole observations.
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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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Broadened Lensing Rings of Compact Boson Stars: Enhanced Imprint of Accretion Flow in Images and Visibilities
Compact boson stars exhibit broader gravitational lensing rings than black holes, resulting in images and visibilities that depend more strongly on the structure of the accretion flow.
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Distorting Kerr Images with Parity-Odd Scalar Hair
Numerical study of thin accretion disk images shows that increasing parity-odd scalar hair on Kerr black holes shrinks and distorts the photon ring and shadow, producing multiple disconnected shadows and chaotic lensing features in strong-hair regimes.
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Testing solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A* with near-infrared flare astrometry
Fitting GRAVITY flare astrometry to solitonic boson star models requires masses larger than 4.3 million solar masses, with more diffuse models yielding values closer to the standard black hole mass and thus placing stringent but incomplete constraints on such interpretations of Sgr A*.
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Roche limit and stellar disruption in the Simpson--Visser spacetime
Tidal forces in the Simpson-Visser spacetime produce Roche radii for stars that depend on observer type and regularization, with some disruptions occurring outside the event horizon for supermassive black holes.
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Light Rings, Accretion Disks and Shadows of Hayward Boson Stars
Numerical construction of Hayward boson stars shows that frozen states produce Schwarzschild-like shadows with no extra photon rings while non-frozen states show multiple photon rings inside the shadow.
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Detectability of secondary images from flares near Sgr A* with mock GRAVITY data
Bayesian fitting to mock GRAVITY data shows robust detection of secondary images from Sgr A* flares requires both an order-of-magnitude larger sample and astrometric uncertainties reduced to 40% of current levels for |ΔBIC| > 7.9.
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Bayesian Analysis of Massive Boson Star Models for Sagittarius A* Using Near-Infrared Astrometry Data
Bayesian analysis shows current near-IR astrometry data cannot distinguish massive boson stars from Schwarzschild black holes for Sgr A*.
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Shadow of the Scalar Hairy Black Hole with Inverted Higgs Potential
Hairy black hole shadows and disks grow with horizon scalar value but can mimic Schwarzschild by adjusting horizon radius, with the potential parameter Lambda constrained by supermassive black hole observations.