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Franz E. Schunck
Researcher at University of Cologne
Publications - 55
Citations - 2689
Franz E. Schunck is an academic researcher from University of Cologne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Boson & Scalar field. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 55 publications receiving 2403 citations. Previous affiliations of Franz E. Schunck include University of Sussex.
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General relativistic boson stars
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the possibilities of detecting the various subtypes of (excited) BSs: possible signals include gravitational redshift and (micro-)lensing, emission of gravitational waves, or, in the case of a giant BS, its dark matter contribution to the rotation curves of galactic halos.
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Assisted inflation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that scalar fields with exponential potentials evolve cooperatively to assist inflation, by finding solutions in which the energy densities of the different scalar field evolve in a fixed proportion.
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TOPICAL REVIEW: General relativistic boson stars
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the possibilities of detecting the various subtypes of (excited) BSs: possible signals include gravitational redshift and (micro-)lensing, emission of gravitational waves, or, in the case of a giant BS, its dark matter contribution to the rotation curves of galactic halos.
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Rotating boson star as an effective mass torus in general relativity
TL;DR: Within general relativity, this paper constructed the corresponding differentially rotating, localized configurations via numerical integration, and the resulting axisymmetric metric, the energy density and the Tolman mass are completely regular.
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Boson stars: alternatives to primordial black holes?
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that for a very light axion of effective string models, their total gravitational mass will be in the most likely range of ∼0.5M⊙ of MACHOs.