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SUBMITTER: Roger T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5114577 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roger Thomas T Maitland Calum C Wilson Kali K Westerberg Niclas N Vocke David D Wright Ewan M EM Faccio Daniele D
Nature communications 20161114
Many gravitational phenomena that lie at the core of our understanding of the Universe have not yet been directly observed. An example in this sense is the boson star that has been proposed as an alternative to some compact objects currently interpreted as being black holes. In the weak field limit, these stars are governed by the Newton-Schrodinger equation. Here we present an optical system that, under appropriate conditions, identically reproduces such equation in two dimensions. A rotating b ...[more]