Rotating Fermion-Boson Stars

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for constructing rotating fermion-boson stars, exploring their properties and potential astrophysical implications, including gravitational wave detection and explanations for certain compact objects.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to modeling uniformly rotating fermion-boson stars and analyzes their main physical properties and astrophysical significance.

Findings

Developed a consistent method for constructing rotating fermion-boson stars.

Analyzed the stability and gravitational wave emission potential of these objects.

Suggested alternative explanations for low-mass black hole observations.

Abstract

Rotating fermion-boson stars are hypothetical celestial objects that consist of both fermionic and bosonic matter interacting exclusively through gravity. Bosonic fields are believed to arise in certain models of particle physics describing dark matter and could accumulate within neutron stars, modifying some of their properties and gravitational wave emission. Fermion-boson stars have been extensively studied in the static non-rotating case, exploring their combined stability and their gravitational radiation in binary mergers. However, stationary rotating configurations were yet to be found and investigated. The presence of a bosonic component could impact the development of the bar-mode instability in differentially rotating neutron stars. Therefore, the study of rotating fermion-boson stars has important implications for astrophysics, as they could provide a new avenue for the detection of gravitational waves. In addition, these objects may shed light on the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, such as those found in the cores of neutron stars, and explain any tension in the determination of the dense-matter equation of state from multi-messenger observations. In this work we study a new consistent method of constructing uniformly rotating fermion-boson stars and we analyse some of their main properties. These objects might offer alternative explanations for current observations populating the lower black-hole mass gap, as the $2.6 M_\odot$ compact object involved in GW190814.