Formation of a Bose Star in a Rotating Cloud
arXiv:2311.12789 · doi:10.1007/s10509-023-04253-8
Abstract
In this paper, we study the evolutions of a self-gravitating cloud of bosonic dark matter with finite angular momentum and self-interaction. This is achieved by using the sixth-order pseudospectral operator splitting method to solve the system of nonlinear Schrödinger and Poisson equations. The initial cloud is assumed to have mass density randomly distributed throughout three-dimensional space. The dark matter particles in the initial cloud are in the kinetic regime, i.e., their de Broglie wavelength is much smaller than the halo size. It is shown that Bose stars are indeed formed in the numerical simulation presented here. The presence of angular momentum and self-interaction in the initial cloud can significantly influence the star formation time in a non-trivial fashion. Furthermore, the plots of the vorticity magnitude profile after the star formation time indicate that the formed star may not have any intrinsic angular momentum for the cases when the self-interaction among the particles is either negligible or attractive. These results are in agreement with the earlier analytical studies of an isolated rotating Bose star. However, for the case of repulsive self-interaction, the vorticity magnitude analysis shows a possibility that the star formed in the numerical simulations may possess intrinsic angular momentum. It is also shown that the average mass and radius diagrams of the star are strongly influenced by the presence of angular momentum in the initial cloud.
arXiv commentBased on arXiv:2109.02601. Important new results have been obtained
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