3 papers
gr-qc2026
Comparing twist-free axisymmetric gravitational waves near the black hole threshold
Ananya Adhikari, Tomáš Ledvinka, Daniela Cors +4
The threshold of black hole formation in axisymmetric vacuum gravity is proving to be more complicated than had been anticipated but, following recent advances, a consensus between…
gr-qc2025
Hair is complicated: Gravitational waves from stable and unstable boson-star mergers
Bo-Xuan Ge, Eugene A. Lim, Ulrich Sperhake +5
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, consisti…
gr-qc2025
Twist and higher modes of a complex scalar field at the threshold of collapse
Krinio Marouda, Daniela Cors, Hannes R. Rüter +2
We investigate the threshold of collapse of a massless complex scalar field in axisymmetric spacetimes under the ansatz of Choptuik et al. 2004, in which a symmetry depending on th…