Publication details for Dr Florent Michel

Michel, Florent & Moss, Ian G. (2018). Relativistic collapse of axion stars. Physics Letters B 785: 9-13.

• Publication type: Journal Article
• ISSN/ISBN: 0370-2693 (print)
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.063
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Author(s) from Durham

• Dr Florent Michel

Abstract

We study the gravitational collapse of axion dark matter in null coordinates, assuming spherical symmetry. Compared with previous studies, we use a simpler numerical scheme which can run, for relevant parameters, in a few minutes or less on a desktop computer. We use it to accurately determine the domains of parameter space in which the axion field forms a black hole, an axion star or a relativistic Bosenova.