Published December 7, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Inside oscillatons

  • 1. Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, AP 14-740, 07000 Mexico DF (Mexico)
  • 3. Instituto de Fisica y Matematicas, Universidad Michoacana, Edif. C-3, Ciudad Universitaria 58040, Morelia, Mich. (Mexico)

Description

Non-singular self-gravitating objects can be found by solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations for a real scalar field. Such objects are generically known as oscillatons, in which the scalar field and the metric are fully time-dependent. In this paper, we describe a numerical procedure to minimize the nonlinearities present in the EKG equations, in the case of spherical symmetry, which permits us to find accurate numerical solutions. In order to gain physical insight of relativistic oscillatons, we study oscillatons in flat space, in the weak field limit, the so-called Newtonian oscillatons, using a fixed Schwarzschild background. This last case may be related to the ejected scalar field during a gravitational collapse of scalar field configurations

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/6259/q22320.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

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Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
p. 6259-6277
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG