Observing Proca Stars With Gravitational Waves.
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hinderer, T.P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dunnink, Romy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-16T23:03:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-16T23:03:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/49036 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.subject | Proca bosons, or dark photons, are ultralight vector bosons that have been proposed as a dark matter candidate. They can clump together to form a solitonic, star-sized Bose-Einstein condensate. These Proca stars can tidally deform in different ways, which affects their gravitational wave signal. We develop a way of numerically evaluating the properties of spherically symmetric Proca stars, and find an amibiguity in how its Love numbers are defined. | |
| dc.title | Observing Proca Stars With Gravitational Waves. | |
| dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Proca stars; tidal deformation; Love numbers; gravitational waves | |
| dc.subject.courseuu | Theoretical Physics | |
| dc.thesis.id | 46308 |
