Gravitational wave probes of dark matter: challenges and opportunities

@article{Bertone2019GravitationalWP,
  title={Gravitational wave probes of dark matter: challenges and opportunities},
  author={Gianfranco Bertone and Djuna Croon and Mustafa A. Amin and Kimberly K. Boddy and Bradley J. Kavanagh and Katherine J. Mack and Priyamvada Natarajan and Toby Opferkuch and Katelin Schutz and Volodymyr Takhistov and Christoph Weniger and Tien-Tien Yu},
  journal={SciPost Physics Core},
  year={2019}
}
In this white paper, we discuss the prospects for characterizing and identifying dark matter using gravitational waves, covering a wide range of dark matter candidate types and signals. We argue that present and upcoming gravitational wave probes offer unprecedented opportunities for unraveling the nature of dark matter and we identify the most urgent challenges and open problems with the aim of encouraging a strong community effort at the interface between these two exciting fields of research… 
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