Abstract

Non-singular self-gravitating objects can be found by solving the coupled Einstein–Klein–Gordon (EKG) equations for a real scalar field. Such objects are generically known as oscillatons, in which the scalar field and the metric are fully time-dependent. In this paper, we describe a numerical procedure to minimize the nonlinearities present in the EKG equations, in the case of spherical symmetry, which permits us to find accurate numerical solutions. In order to gain physical insight of relativistic oscillatons, we study oscillatons in flat space, in the weak field limit, the so-called Newtonian oscillatons, using a fixed Schwarzschild background. This last case may be related to the ejected scalar field during a gravitational collapse of scalar field configurations.

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