2 papers
gr-qc2026
Head-on Collisions of Boson Stars with Bowen-York Type Initial Data
Jake Doherty, Pablo Laguna
We present a numerical relativity study of head-on collisions involving boson stars using initial data inspired by the Bowen-York initial data used to model black hole binaries wit…
gr-qc2025
Growth of a Black Hole in a Scalar Field Cosmology
Jake Doherty, Miguel Gracia-Linares, Pablo Laguna
We present a numerical relativity study of the accretion properties of a non-spinning black hole in a cosmology driven by a scalar field. The simulations are carried out with a mod…