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Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
Authors :
Barack, Leor Cardoso, Vitor Nissanke, Samaya Sotiriou, Thomas P. Askar, Abbas Belczynski, Krzysztof Bertone, Gianfranco Bon, Edi Blas, Diego Brito, Richard Bulik, Tomasz Burrage, Clare Byrnes, Christian T. Caprini, Chiara Chernyakova, Masha Chrusciel, Piotr Colpi, Monica Ferrari, Valeria Gaggero, Daniele Gair, Jonathan Garcia-Bellido, Juan Hassan, S. F. Heisenberg, Lavinia Hendry, Martin Heng, Ik Siong Herdeiro, Carlos Hinderer, Tanja Horesh, Assaf Kavanagh, Bradley J. Kocsis, Bence Kramer, Michael Tiec, Alexandre Le Mingarelli, Chiara Nardini, Germano Nelemans, Gijs Palenzuela, Carlos Pani, Paolo Perego, Albino Porter, Edward K. Rossi, Elena M. Schmidt, Patricia Sesana, Alberto Sperhake, Ulrich Stamerra, Antonio Stein, Leo C. Tamanini, Nicola Tauris, Thomas M. Urena-Lopez, L. Arturo Vincent, Frederic Volonteri, Marta Wardell, Barry Wex, Norbert Yagi, Kent Abdelsalhin, Tiziano Aloy, Miguel Angel Amaro-Seoane, Pau Annulli, Lorenzo Arca-Sedda, Manuel Bah, Ibrahima Barausse, Enrico Barakovic, Elvis Benkel, Robert Bennett, Charles L. Bernard, Laura Bernuzzi, Sebastiano Berry, Christopher P. L. Berti, Emanuele Bezares, Miguel Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan Blazquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis Bonetti, Matteo Boskovic, Mateja Bosnjak, Zeljka Bricman, Katja Bruegmann, Bernd Capelo, Pedro R. Carloni, Sante Cerda-Duran, Pablo Charmousis, Christos Chaty, Sylvain Clerici, Aurora Coates, Andrew Colleoni, Marta Collodel, Lucas G. Compere, Geoffrey Cook, William Cordero-Carrion, Isabel Correia, Miguel de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro Czinner, Viktor G. Destounis, Kyriakos Dialektopoulos, Kostas Doneva, Daniela Dotti, Massimo Drew, Amelia Eckner, Christopher Edholm, James Emparan, Roberto Erdem, Recai Ferreira, Miguel Ferreira, Pedro G. Finch, Andrew Font, Jose A. Franchini, Nicola Fransen, Kwinten Gal'tsov, Dmitry Ganguly, Apratim Gerosa, Davide Glampedakis, Kostas Gomboc, Andreja Goobar, Ariel Gualtieri, Leonardo Guendelman, Eduardo Haardt, Francesco Harmark, Troels Hejda, Filip Hertog, Thomas Hopper, Seth Husa, Sascha Ihanec, Nada Ikeda, Taishi Jaodand, Amruta Jimenez-Forteza, Philippe Jetzer Xisco Kamionkowski, Marc Kaplan, David E. Kazantzidis, Stelios Kimura, Masashi Kobayashi, Shiho Kokkotas, Kostas Krolik, Julian Kunz, Jutta Lammerzahl, Claus Lasky, Paul Lemos, Jose P. S. Said, Jackson Levi Liberati, Stefano Lopes, Jorge Luna, Raimon Ma, Yin-Zhe Maggio, Elisa Montero, Marina Martinez Maselli, Andrea Mayer, Lucio Mazumdar, Anupam Messenger, Christopher Menard, Brice Minamitsuji, Masato Moore, Christopher J. Mota, David Nampalliwar, Sourabh Nerozzi, Andrea Nichols, David Nissimov, Emil Obergaulinger, Martin Obers, Niels A. Oliveri, Roberto Pappas, George Pasic, Vedad Peiris, Hiranya Petrushevska, Tanja Pollney, Denis Pratten, Geraint Rakic, Nemanja Racz, Istvan Radia, Miren Ramazanouglu, Fethi M. Ramos-Buades, Antoni Raposo, Guilherme Rosca-Mead, Roxana Rogatko, Marek Rosinska, Dorota Rosswog, Stephan Morales, Ester Ruiz Sakellariadou, Mairi Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas Salafia, Om Sharan Samajdar, Anuradha Sintes, Alicia Smole, Majda Sopuerta, Carlos Souza-Lima, Rafael Stalevski, Marko Stergioulas, Nikolaos Stevens, Chris Tamfal, Tomas Torres-Forne, Alejandro Tsygankov, Sergey Unluturk, Kivanc Valiante, Rosa van de Meent, Maarten Velhinho, Jose Verbin, Yosef Vercnocke, Bert Vernieri, Daniele Vicente, Rodrigo Vitagliano, Vincenzo Weltman, Amanda Whiting, Bernard Williamson, Andrew Witek, Helvi Wojnar, Aneta Yakut, Kadri Yan, Haopeng Yazadjiev, Stoycho Zaharijas, Gabrijela Zilhao, Miguel Barack, Leor Cardoso, Vitor Nissanke, Samaya Sotiriou, Thomas P. Askar, Abbas Belczynski, Krzysztof Bertone, Gianfranco Bon, Edi Blas, Diego Brito, Richard Bulik, Tomasz Burrage, Clare Byrnes, Christian T. Caprini, Chiara Chernyakova, Masha Chrusciel, Piotr Colpi, Monica Ferrari, Valeria Gaggero, Daniele Gair, Jonathan Garcia-Bellido, Juan Hassan, S. F. Heisenberg, Lavinia Hendry, Martin Heng, Ik Siong Herdeiro, Carlos Hinderer, Tanja Horesh, Assaf Kavanagh, Bradley J. Kocsis, Bence Kramer, Michael Tiec, Alexandre Le Mingarelli, Chiara Nardini, Germano Nelemans, Gijs Palenzuela, Carlos Pani, Paolo Perego, Albino Porter, Edward K. Rossi, Elena M. Schmidt, Patricia Sesana, Alberto Sperhake, Ulrich Stamerra, Antonio Stein, Leo C. Tamanini, Nicola Tauris, Thomas M. Urena-Lopez, L. Arturo Vincent, Frederic Volonteri, Marta Wardell, Barry Wex, Norbert Yagi, Kent Abdelsalhin, Tiziano Aloy, Miguel Angel Amaro-Seoane, Pau Annulli, Lorenzo Arca-Sedda, Manuel Bah, Ibrahima Barausse, Enrico Barakovic, Elvis Benkel, Robert Bennett, Charles L. Bernard, Laura Bernuzzi, Sebastiano Berry, Christopher P. L. Berti, Emanuele Bezares, Miguel Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan Blazquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis Bonetti, Matteo Boskovic, Mateja Bosnjak, Zeljka Bricman, Katja Bruegmann, Bernd Capelo, Pedro R. Carloni, Sante Cerda-Duran, Pablo Charmousis, Christos Chaty, Sylvain Clerici, Aurora Coates, Andrew Colleoni, Marta Collodel, Lucas G. Compere, Geoffrey Cook, William Cordero-Carrion, Isabel Correia, Miguel de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro Czinner, Viktor G. Destounis, Kyriakos Dialektopoulos, Kostas Doneva, Daniela Dotti, Massimo Drew, Amelia Eckner, Christopher Edholm, James Emparan, Roberto Erdem, Recai Ferreira, Miguel Ferreira, Pedro G. Finch, Andrew Font, Jose A. Franchini, Nicola Fransen, Kwinten Gal'tsov, Dmitry Ganguly, Apratim Gerosa, Davide Glampedakis, Kostas Gomboc, Andreja Goobar, Ariel Gualtieri, Leonardo Guendelman, Eduardo Haardt, Francesco Harmark, Troels Hejda, Filip Hertog, Thomas Hopper, Seth Husa, Sascha Ihanec, Nada Ikeda, Taishi Jaodand, Amruta Jimenez-Forteza, Philippe Jetzer Xisco Kamionkowski, Marc Kaplan, David E. Kazantzidis, Stelios Kimura, Masashi Kobayashi, Shiho Kokkotas, Kostas Krolik, Julian Kunz, Jutta Lammerzahl, Claus Lasky, Paul Lemos, Jose P. S. Said, Jackson Levi Liberati, Stefano Lopes, Jorge Luna, Raimon Ma, Yin-Zhe Maggio, Elisa Montero, Marina Martinez Maselli, Andrea Mayer, Lucio Mazumdar, Anupam Messenger, Christopher Menard, Brice Minamitsuji, Masato Moore, Christopher J. Mota, David Nampalliwar, Sourabh Nerozzi, Andrea Nichols, David Nissimov, Emil Obergaulinger, Martin Obers, Niels A. Oliveri, Roberto Pappas, George Pasic, Vedad Peiris, Hiranya Petrushevska, Tanja Pollney, Denis Pratten, Geraint Rakic, Nemanja Racz, Istvan Radia, Miren Ramazanouglu, Fethi M. Ramos-Buades, Antoni Raposo, Guilherme Rosca-Mead, Roxana Rogatko, Marek Rosinska, Dorota Rosswog, Stephan Morales, Ester Ruiz Sakellariadou, Mairi Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas Salafia, Om Sharan Samajdar, Anuradha Sintes, Alicia Smole, Majda Sopuerta, Carlos Souza-Lima, Rafael Stalevski, Marko Stergioulas, Nikolaos Stevens, Chris Tamfal, Tomas Torres-Forne, Alejandro Tsygankov, Sergey Unluturk, Kivanc Valiante, Rosa van de Meent, Maarten Velhinho, Jose Verbin, Yosef Vercnocke, Bert Vernieri, Daniele Vicente, Rodrigo Vitagliano, Vincenzo Weltman, Amanda Whiting, Bernard Williamson, Andrew Witek, Helvi Wojnar, Aneta Yakut, Kadri Yan, Haopeng Yazadjiev, Stoycho Zaharijas, Gabrijela Zilhao, Miguel
Publication Year :
2018
Abstract
The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem---all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress.<br />Comment: White Paper for the COST action "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Fundamental Physics", 272 pages, 12 figures; v4: updated references and author list. Overall improvements and corrections. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity