Kavli Affiliate: Ulrich Sperhake | First 5 Authors: Bo-Xuan Ge, Eugene A. Lim, Ulrich Sperhake, Tamara Evstafyeva, Daniela Cors | Summary: We explore the gravitational-wave emission from head-on collisions of equal-mass solitonic boson-star binaries from simulations spanning a two-dimensional parameter space, consisting of the central scalar-field amplitude of the stars and the solitonic potential parameter. […]
Continue.. Hair is complicated: Gravitational waves from stable and unstable boson-star mergers